Financial difficulties continue to be one of the most reported areas of conflict within relationships, and even when not the biggest reported issue, is still the most prevalent, reoccurring, and longest lasting. Financial therapy seeks to aid individuals, couples, and families in thinking, feeling, and behaving differently with regard to money in an effort to improve overall well-being and relationships.
Financial therapists address many issues related to money including past financial trauma, financial abuse, transgenerational transmission of values and beliefs around money, improving communication around money between spouses, money disorders, underlying causes of negative financial behaviors, navigating a large-scale change in financial culture, financial socialization practices, issues around money and identity formation, and much more. Completion of this certificate can be achieved 100 percent online, hybrid, or in-person.
All graduate students seeking a family financial therapy certificate must be currently enrolled in – or have a degree/licensure – in a mental health profession such as Clinical Psychology, Counseling Psychology, Professional Counseling, Clinical Social Work, Psychiatry, Couple and Family Therapy, or related field.
The Graduate Certificate in Family Financial Therapy requires 12 credit hours as follows:
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