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How to Feel Good About Your Money: An Interview with Aja Evans

by Melanie
written by Melanie

Do you want to feel good about your money? Then listen to this episode as I chat with Aja Evans. Aja is a board-certified therapist who specializes in financial therapy. She’s coined the ‘feel-good financial therapist’ because of her ability to use therapeutic approaches to improve financial outcomes for clients and listeners.

Today, when many people are concerned about a recession, she shares how to feel good about your money and deal with financial anxiety and low self-esteem. She also discussed how we can stop self-sabotaging our finances, reconcile our past and move on from shame and blame.

“We don’t want people to feel they can’t spend their money because as much as saving money is important, so is spending it. Money is a tool and it should be enjoyed where you can.” – Aja Evans

What You Will Learn From This Episode 

  • Three steps you can take to feel good about your money 
  • Financial and mental health tips to avoid anxiety during these trying times
  • How you can reconcile your past if you’ve experienced a low income or poverty and now have money and stability for the first time
  • How low self-esteem and struggles with self-worth manifest in mental health and finances
  • Why do we self-sabotage our finances without us realizing it and how we can be aware and stop such behaviors 
  • How to move on from shame and blame because of prior financial mistakes

About Aja:

Aja is a board-certified therapist who specializes in financial therapy. She commonly speaks about how relationships with money impact all facets of our lives and have the power to shift how we feel emotionally and physically. She is determined to empower people to take control of their financial journey beginning with evaluating how their past experiences impact their financial decisions. Aja specializes in identifying how anxiety, self-esteem, and stress impact financial wellness.

Because of her ability to use therapeutic approaches to improve financial outcomes for clients and listeners, she’s coined the ‘feel-good financial therapist’.

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Podcast

Looking at Financial Therapy for Money and Other Issues: An Interview with Financial Therapist Wendy Wright

by Melanie
written by Melanie

Do you have anxiety about spending money or shame around debt? Do you feel like you’re in a constant negative loop with your money mindset?

You might want to see a financial therapist.

Learn more about financial therapy as I chat with Wendy Wright, a financial therapist, founder, and CEO of Financial Therapy Solutions. She sheds light on what financial therapy actually is, what to expect and how it can help you shift your money mindset and your financial life.

“I find myself describing financial therapy most of the time to people because they haven’t even heard of it yet.”  – Wendy Wright

“With debt, sometimes it’s not even about the numbers, it’s about the relationship to the numbers and how that feels.”  – Wendy Wright

“Just coming into a financial therapy session is really helpful to calm down some of the stories that are in our head and release us from some shame in some mindsets.” – Wendy Wright

“I would say that probably 90% of things that we think are about money are not. So when we begin to really delve into it in a financial therapy setting we get to see maybe it’s about self-worth, fear, safety, security, all those kind of things.” – Wendy Wright

What You Will Learn From This Episode 

  • What is financial therapy, what to expect from it, and who should go to it
  • How financial therapy works and what is the cost
  • Wendy’s advice on the following issues or mindsets:
  • You can’t stop thinking about money
  • You believe you’re ‘bad with money’ 
  • You have highly vigilant or highly avoidant money behaviors
  • Getting out of the debt cycle
  • You want to invest and talk with a financial advisor/financial planner
  • The feeling of shame and guilt either around debt or being a low-income earner
  • The common issues that Wendy sees in her clients
  • Other root causes of our issues that we tend to think are about money but really aren’t
  • Tools and resources that are sometimes part of a financial therapy session 

About Wendy Wright:

Wendy Wright, LMFT, CEDS, CIEC, Financial Therapist, is a psychotherapist and consultant based in Denver, CO. She offers financial counseling and helps you name the blocks that get in the way of your best financial life.  In her early career, she was a mortgage loan officer, business owner, and a successful house flipper.  Then later she became a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. It is the blend of the therapeutic and the financial that can help you find more clarity and freedom in your relationship with money, spending, saving, and debting.

Wendy is the founder and CEO of Financial Therapy Solutions, LLC, a financial therapy group practice based in Denver, CO.  The Financial Therapy Solutions team of therapists also offers telehealth services.

She is a featured guest on several podcasts, including It’s Not a Crisis,  The Nav.it podcast, and was a featured speaker for the Mental Health and Wealth Summit in 2021.

When she is not helping others find freedom in their relationships with finances, she is likely on her yoga mat, the ski slope, or a hiking trail!

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Want more content and support? 

Sign up for the Mental Hump Newsletter and get our free Mental Health and Money inventory worksheet. You can sign up at MentalHealthandWealth.com. 

Also, we host a Mental Health and Wealth Hangout every other Thursday over Zoom at 5 pm PT to chat about all things money and mental health. Join here!  

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