Why I do this work.
I'm a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Financial Therapist™, and financial planner who helps people make sense of both the numbers and the emotions behind money.
After more than a decade working in community mental health and crisis services, I noticed that money showed up everywhere. Financial stress affected relationships, anxiety, self-worth, major life decisions, and even the ability to follow through on goals.
The more I learned, the clearer it became that financial decisions are rarely just financial. They are deeply human.
I've sat with people in their most overwhelming moments — and I've seen how often money was tangled up in all of it. Not as the cause, exactly, but as a place where fear, shame, and old stories about worth and safety tend to live.
That's what led me to financial therapy. Not as a detour from mental health work, but as a natural extension of it. The emotional and the practical don't exist in separate worlds. They influence each other constantly. A plan that ignores the emotional layer will keep breaking down. And emotional insight without a practical path forward leaves people stuck.
ReWard Planning was created to bridge the gap between mental health and financial planning — so clients can build plans that work not only on paper, but in real life.
When I'm not working, you'll usually find me traveling, reading, spending time with my cats, or exploring ways people build meaning and security in their lives.