We all witnessed the painful drop in the economy in September, 2008. To add insult to injury, in December, 2008 Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme was exposed that left hundreds of investors including many well known institutions and charities broke. The Great Recession of 2008, is rivaled only by the Great Depression of the 1930s. The Great Recession of 2008 hurt everyone. No one was spared. Compare 2008 with 2000 and the tech bubble burst. Those...

I am trained and experienced in differential diagnostic testing with children, adolescents and adults. Diagnostic testing is a way of clarifying what a person’s problems are and can be useful in developing a treatment plan. ADHA/ADD & LD Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Inattention Disorder and Learning Differences are diagnoses made primarily on the basis of a person’s cognitive and emotional past. That is, you don’t get...

Last week I got a heartbreaking call from my 20s something son. He’d applied for a job that fit him perfectly. The job offered benefits and work that he has spent the last 5 years training for. He didn’t get the job. I listened to his deflated voice fighting back tears while he told me that despite upbeat and encouraging interviews (including a friendly invitation to have lunch with the entire staff after the last interview) he had just...

I was delighted to be interviewed by personal finance writer Veronica Dagher in this article about the rapidly-growing field of financial therapy. As Ms. Dagher writes in the Wall Street Journal, financial therapists can be “invaluable.” We work with couples to decrease the stress that money issues add to a relationship. We also partner with financial advisors to work with their clients. For example, for an overly anxious...

Check out Crazy About Money in this New York Times article about the recession and the toll it’s taking on relationships. The most important thing that couples can do when money is tight: communicate, communicate,...