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Financial Therapy

Money carries more than numbers. It carries pressure, identity, fear, and old patterns, and for many people, especially those who work in or around finance, that weight shows up as real anxiety, sleeplessness, and strain that no spreadsheet resolves. Financial therapy addresses the psychological and emotional side of money, the part that a financial plan was never meant to reach.

The Lieberman Center offers financial therapy as part of its private psychiatric care for demanding professionals. Care is delivered directly by Brad Lieberman, PMHNP-BC, with no intake coordinator and no rotating provider.

What financial therapy is, and is not

It is therapeutic work focused on your relationship with money: the anxiety, avoidance, control, guilt, or fear that money can trigger, and the patterns underneath them. It is not financial advice, planning, or investment guidance, and it does not replace the financial professionals you work with. The aim is to ease the psychological burden money places on you, not to manage your money.

Who it helps

  • People whose stress about money persists regardless of what their accounts actually say
  • High earners and finance professionals for whom money is tied up with identity and performance
  • Anyone whose financial worry is fueling anxiety, sleeplessness, conflict, or avoidance

Financial stress rarely stays in its lane. It commonly overlaps with anxiety and with burnout, which is why it is treated here as part of your broader mental health rather than in isolation.

Privacy that stays private

Many of the professionals the practice works with care about where their information goes. Because care is private-pay, no insurance claim is filed, so your diagnosis is not coded into a payer’s claims database or the data-broker networks that draw from it. Your care stays a direct relationship between you and your provider, not a data trail moving through third parties you never chose.

Common questions

Is this financial advice?

No. Financial therapy is about the emotional and psychological relationship with money, not investments, budgeting, or planning. It complements, rather than replaces, any financial professionals you work with.

Who is financial therapy for?

It helps people for whom money is a persistent source of anxiety or conflict, regardless of income, and it is a particularly natural fit for those in high-pressure financial careers.

Take the First Step

Start with a Schedule a Consultation

The first step is a brief fifteen-minute Schedule a Consultation to discuss what you are looking for and confirm the practice is the right fit. There is no charge and no obligation. Most new patients are seen within roughly forty-eight hours of that first conversation.

Schedule a Consultation