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About Becoming a Financial Therapist

There is no single road to becoming a financial therapist—only stories that light the way.

In this book, twenty practitioners and leaders share how they found their way into the still-emerging field of financial therapy. Some began in finance and stumbled into the emotions; others trained as therapists and discovered that money could no longer be left at the door. All of them walked a path shaped by personal histories, professional courage, and a willingness to integrate what had once been kept apart.

Whether you are a financial advisor, planner, accountant, mental health professional, or money coach, you’ll find both inspiration and practical guidance here. Each chapter offers a window into one person’s journey, paired with reflection prompts and exercises to help you explore your own relationship with money and meaning.

Part memoir, part mentoring, this collection is an invitation: to see yourself in the struggles and breakthroughs of those who came before, to deepen your own money story, and to consider financial therapy as a path toward purpose, belonging, and professional fulfillment.

Becoming a financial therapist isn’t about having all the answers. It’s about learning to sit at the intersection of money and emotion—and discovering that this is where healing, growth, and wholeness begin.

Get to Know the Authors

Ed Coambs, CFP®, LMFT, CFT™, is an award-winning pioneer in the field of financial therapy. Named Practitioner of the Year by the Financial Therapy Association, he brings together three master’s degrees—in business, counseling, and financial planning—and a deep commitment to helping people heal their relationship with money. He is the author of The Healthy Love & Money Way: How the Four Attachment Styles Impact Your Financial Well-Being, where he draws on neuroscience, attachment theory, and his own journey from insecure to secure attachment to show how past patterns shape present financial lives. Ed founded Healthy Love & Money to offer therapy-informed financial planning, couples financial therapy, and training for professionals—helping clients rewrite their money stories with self-awareness, connection, and purpose.

Khara Croswaite Brindle is a Certified Financial Therapist (CFT) and Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who enjoys helping mental health therapists and financial therapists develop secondary income streams against burnout! As a mental health leader, Khara offers consultation, financial therapy, and her online Momentum & Money (financial therapy) group to mental health professionals in private practice. As a financial therapy supervisor, Khara offers community and consultation to financial therapists, as well as engaging trainings, individual supervision, self-of therapist work, and monthly financial therapy group supervision. Khara is proud to be the Director of Training of the Financial Therapy Clinical Institute (FTCI), helping to fill the gaps in early-career financial therapist education, including a yearly award-winning online externship. Khara is the co-author of the Amazon #1 Best-Seller Your Enneagram and Money: Transforming Enneagram Edges into Financial Freedom and values teaching financial therapy skills to her graduate students as an adjunct faculty member and dynamic trainer for financial organizations. This is her 11th book.

The Biggest Prize is Connection

In this growing field of financial therapy, connecting is our biggest reward for putting this book out into the world! Meet some of our interviewees who's stories are featured in the book!

Folks who attend this free event will also get freebies, be entered into a raffle for the book, and can ask the authors anything! Join us!