Services

Financial Counseling:

This is individual counseling primarily designed to resolve a difficult emotional pattern with money. Many seek this type of help with matters such as impulse control problems sometimes related for example to spending patterns or lifestyle difficulties. Many have also found this type of counseling helpful in identifying and interrupting self-defeating or chronic patterns that resist normal will power.

Couples Counseling:

Ron has a certain way with helping couples to recognize their patterns together, sharpen the focus, and to put in place a system to resolve the financial and emotional tensions. Many couples seek this particular method of approaching the difficulties with finances in their relationships instead of, or as an adjunct to, traditional marital counseling since the focus is directly on financial issues and therefore gets to the crux of the matter, and tends to stay there.

Family Dynamics Work:

For families who need help relating to each other about financial matters. This includes parents struggling with a child who has not yet been able to adopt a mature relationship with money (e.g. a rebellious or immature child, irresponsible about a trust fund, or in recovery from an addiction). Many parents find it very helpful to truly feel the difference between enabling and supporting, and to learn to establish boundaries along those lines. Another common example is siblings and adult children coming to terms with aging parents and expectations about inheritance, etc.

Divorce Consideration/Collaboration/Mediation

Ron's ability to help couples through a very difficult and strained emotional experience about money is particularly suited to matters surrounding couples making a decision to either consider divorce or to begin the process of separation and or divorce. Ron's approach combines a collaborative spirit with very real considerations of sometimes-harsh financial realities. Many couples have found that going through this process reveals that they want to honor the love they have felt even if they decide to split; that a soft approach saves large amounts of money saved from litigation and a whole lot of wear-and-tear on the soul; and lastly, that it is far easier to remain friends and/or co-parents after a process of this kind.

Financial Interventions:

Interventions are generally required when a situation has become somehow intolerable. For example, someone has run out of money to live, they have been attached by the IRS, the family has shut them down because of extreme acting-out behavior, or the emergency takes the nature of a family in extreme emotional crisis based on an out-of-control member.

Trust and Estate Counseling:

Ron is often asked to help families to conform their wills, estates, trusts, etc. to the emotional and financial realities of the family.