Hello, everyone, and welcome back to an all new episode of the Financial Confessions. It's me,

Chelsea Fagan, your host, founder and CEO of the financial diet and woman who loves to talk about

money. And one topic that comes up very frequently when we talk about money is the intersection

of money and mental health. We've looked at this issue from a few specific angles,

but it's always really good to go back and speak

to a professional on the topic at large,

because quite frankly, as money and mental health

intersect, there are almost unlimited ways in which one

can both aggravate the other and help the other.

Many people have remarked, and I would consider myself one of those people,

that few things can be as beneficial to mental health as getting in a better financial

situation, achieving higher levels of financial stability and security.

But ironically, for many of us, mental health care is something that is pretty much entirely financially

out of reach.

Now, there can be more creative ways to access mental health care without necessarily going

way over budget.

And that's something I will talk about with my guest.

But it's also something that paradoxically, the more you need it, often the less means

you have to access it, which is why guests like my guest today,

who works so diligently in the content she creates to demystify mental health, to make it

more accessible, to make it more understandable, are so important to this process.

My guest today is a licensed clinical social worker, a doctorate of clinical psychology,

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