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Money Trauma

An anti-capitalist approach to
healing money trauma

Healing money trauma in therapy goes beyond budgets and spreadsheets, it’s about understanding how your nervous system, relationships, history, and larger systems have shaped your relationship with safety, worth, power, and choice around money.

We look at how money shows up for you and how you show up for money.
And what your money style is.

Money carries stories of scarcity, shame, survival, caretaking, and inherited beliefs that often live in the body long before they show up in our behavior and how we interact with money.

In our work together, we explore the emotional and somatic roots of money patterns, build capacity for regulation and agency, and untangle old survival strategies that may no longer serve you.

Money stress is real and it is rarely something that is created in a vaccum.

Our relationship is shaped by capitalism, inequality, family survival patterns, and chronic nervous system activation. Healing money trauma in therapy means reclaiming agency, safety, and values-based choice while releasing shame and hyper-responsibility.

We work slowly, relationally, and with deep respect for your body and nervous system.

This is non-pathologizing, trauma-informed care that honors your values, supports sustainable change, and helps you create a relationship with money that feels steadier, more spacious, and aligned with the life you actually want.

Committed to Affirming Care

Contact

Dre (Andrea) Meller, LMFT (#163561)
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

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