Learn a trauma informed financial wellbeing approach

In this training you'll learn new interventions to work with client's that have chronic financial challenges to support financial recovery and build financial resilience. This training extends the scope of your therapuetic practice by including an important component of trauma informed care.

  • Identify the impact of trauma on financial wellness and support client financial recovery

  • Learn maladaptive behaviours that define traumas impact and rebuild client financial resilience

  • Extend the scope of therapuetic practice

  • Create more psychological safety for clients who struggle financially

Training designed for mental health professionals and social support workforce

Trauma can have a profound impact on an individual's ability to manage their finances. It can lead to difficulties with money management, impulse spending and lack of financial stability. Trauma can cause an individual to underearn, overspend, gamble and engage in overt financial risk. It impacts the ability to maintain stable employment, steady income , build future financial wellbeing and challenges esteem and mental health.

Easily Accessible

  • Audio/Video

  • Course eBook

  • On Demand

Course curriculum

    1. Introduction

    2. Module 1 - What is trauma informed financial wellbeing - Audio

    3. Module 1 - What is trauma informed financial wellbeing - eBook

    4. Module 2 - Quick reference: The impact of trauma on personal finances - Audio

    5. Module 2 - Quick reference: The impact of trauma on personal finances - eBook

    6. Module 3 - Somatic approach to money - Audio

    7. Module 3 - Somatic approach to money - eBook

    8. Module 4 - Money and the threat response – threat, survival and thriving - Audio

    9. Module 4 - Money and the threat response – threat, survival and thriving - eBook

    10. Module 5 - Psychological safety and money

    11. Module 5 - Psychological safety and money - eBook

    12. Module 6 - Working in a financially therapeutic way

    13. Module 6 - Working in a financially therapeutic way - eBook

    1. Module 7 - Trauma Categories – developmental, complex and shock

    2. Module 7 - Trauma Categories – developmental, complex and shock - eBook

    3. Module 8 - Working with trauma categories in financial capability

    4. Module 8 - Working with trauma categories in financial capability - eBook

    5. Module 9 - Adverse Childhood Experiences

    6. Module 10 - Complex trauma

    7. Module 11 - Gender trauma

    8. Module 12 - Racism

    9. Module 13 - Intergenerational social trauma - economic, war, famine, religious, cultural and political

    10. Module 14 - Familial trauma - parental death, divorce, single parent

    11. Module 15 - Intergenerational poverty

    12. Module 16 - Debilitating wealth

    13. Module 17 - Money as trauma - primogeniture

    14. Module 18 - Money as trauma - loss, divorce and money as a result of trauma

    15. Module 19 - Trauma Informed Financial Wellbeing Model

    1. Module 20 - Repetition compulsion's role in financial recovery

    2. Module 21 - Working with financial shame

    3. Module 22 - Worthiness and deserving as a trauma response

    4. Module 23 - Workforce Worthiness Bias

    5. Module 24 - Building financial resilience

    6. Module 25 - Trauma informed investment bias

    7. Module 26 - Modeling and financial vulnerability

    1. Module 27 - Capacity model in financial change and growth

    2. Module 28 - Inner Critic's role in financial recovery

    3. Module 29 - Saboteur's role in financial recovery

    4. Module 30 - Building financial boundaries

    5. Module 31 - Role of social engagement and money

    6. Module 32 - Role of healthy aggression in financial wellbeing

    7. Module 33 - Conclusion
  • 42 lessons

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Build financial capability in clients impacted by trauma

This program will help you gain the knowledge and skills necessary to work with clients who experience financial challenges as a result of trauma. A support professional who is sensitive to the financial concerns of their clients can help alleviate this burden on their mental health. Support your client to achieve overall wellbeing. During this training, you'll learn:

  • Evidence based strategies for implementing trauma informed financial wellbeing

  • Knowledge of various trauma categories and how they present in client's financial life

  • How to work with intergerational poverty and the learn the unique barriers to change

  • New interventions for working with clients who have chronic financial challenges

  • Implement a new client financial capability model for financial recovery and resilience

This course is not currently eligble for CE Credits. This course is for educational purposes only and does not constitute a professional qualification or certification.