Our Approaches
CBT,DBT informed THERAPies, along with boundary work and assertiveness training:
DBT skills assists with improving things such as communication skills, distress tolerance, and mindfulness. CBT examines the automatic thoughts that may occur, in this case, around money ,and reframes them. While working at Jersey Battered Women’s Services, Jennifer ran groups mainly focused on two key components: boundaries and assertiveness. The JBWS model continues to inform her work with clients today, along with the inspiration of The Center for Motivation and Change in New York.
Financial basics and arrangments:
For couples, finances are not only about which stock to buy or whole life vs. term life insurance, but more importantly, how to arrange your finances, the day-to-day communication regarding money, and the systems that guide them.
Research:
Our mission is to create a financial infrastructure that leads to less conflict. Using information from victims and researching healthy, long-term, financially successful couples. Then give that information to our couples.
Advocacy:
Nowhere else is financial exploitation as permissible as within marriage and family law. The current solution, “educate women,” is that statistically, women have a higher rate of being victims of economic abuse. We are looking to open the conversation via education, collaboration across industries, and advocacy in order to help mitigate the financial disparity and division within the context of marriage.