Natalie Spautz, LMFT
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist 86678
Couples Therapy & Financial Therapy
Online in California
FINANCIAL THERAPY
Money can be a loaded topic. Not only are we up against social messages that we shouldn't talk about money, but many of us carry shame, anxiety, guilt, embarrassment, stress, anger or fear about money that gets in the way of making peace with money. These social messages and difficult emotions can create barriers to challenging oppressive systemic issues and unhelpful internalized beliefs.
I'm here to support you in radically shifting your attitude, mindset, feelings and behaviors so that you can free your mind from harmful or self limiting ideas about money. By seeing money as a way to live your values and take care of yourself and others around you, you can start to see money as something to manage instead of money ruling you, a tool to channel your energy instead of depleting it and an important part of the way forward to the future you're currently shaping. This way, you can start making your money work toward the life you seek to live and the changes you wish to see in the world.
Ready to change your relationship to money and start financial therapy?
What does Financial Therapy look like?
Explore your Money Story and identify your
Money Scripts
We all have experiences and have been taught lessons about money that affect our relationship to money in many ways. Some are strengths, others are self limiting or affect our relationships. When we explore your story, make the underlying beliefs conscious, you can start to see and remove the internal limitations holding you back. Self awareness is the first step in the process of change and by telling your story, investigating and thinking together about it, we can piece together those messages that exist below the level of conscious awareness.
Process emotions from Financial Trauma
Working on financial trauma is an important part of healing and restoring financial wellness. It helps to identify and process overwhelming emotional experiences that can result from financial trauma, such as the loss of a job, a huge medical bill, or other financial changes. It is important to tell the story and to feel the emotions associated, in order to move forward in a healthier and more productive way.
I can help you by supporting you in moving through those unfelt emotions and releasing the past so that you can create a new relationship to money that will lead to more satisfaction and peace in your life.
Use insight to make behavioral changes that care for your present and future self
By reflecting on recent interactions with money such as purchases, investments or gifts, you can start to make connections to where your money scripts can influence or dictate your behavior. Looking together at those partially true beliefs that are underlying your unhelpful habits and decision making you can see more clearly where efforts to change would be more helpful. By focusing on these trends, talking them through and bringing awareness to those moments while they are happening, the process of change gains more momentum with each realization.
Find and maintain more Financial Wellness
Financial wellness looks different for each person, there is no one size fits all. Your version of financial wellness will fit with all it's particulars to your life, your lifestyle, values, needs and priorities by creating clear intentions and goals that are based on these aspects of you. With financial therapy, your money can work for you, and you are more able to invest as you find balance and value in your spending. Over time, by focusing on your relationship to money I can help you make sustainable changes that will increase not just your financial wellness but your overall wellness and satisfaction in life.
"Money exists for a reason – to let you do what you want to do. Yes, it’s true, every dollar you spend now would be worth more later. But living only for tomorrow is no way to live. Consider one investment that most people overlook: yourself... If you invest in yourself, the potential return is limitless"
Ramit Sethi
Free your mind
Become aware of the internalized unhelpful associations and beliefs about money, release them and allow yourself to explore new ideas that feel supportive and generative for you.