Acceptance and Commitment (ACT) Therapy in California
What if you were able to achieve lasting financial health, emotional resilience, and a balanced, fulfilling life?
Koru Financial Therapy understands and recognizes that navigating finances is challenging for Californians who may experience financial anxiety and stress, money dysmorphia, or financial trauma, among other concerns influenced by our state’s:
Economic environment
High cost of living
Housing affordability
Income inequality
Mental healthcare
Natural disasters
Healthcare costs
Social comparison
Cultural expectations
Media influences
You don’t have to navigate it alone.
Our Approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a unique form of psychotherapy that focuses on helping individuals accept their thoughts and feelings rather than fighting or feeling guilty for them. ACT encourages people to commit to actions that align with their values and improve their lives. It combines mindfulness practices with behavioral changes, empowering individuals to live in the present moment and handle life's challenges with more resilience and flexibility. By fostering acceptance and commitment, ACT helps individuals reduce suffering and build a meaningful, fulfilling life.
Financial Therapy
Financial Therapy is an innovative approach that blends financial planning with emotional and psychological support. It addresses the complex relationship between a person's financial behaviors and their mental well-being. Financial therapists help clients understand and alter unhealthy money habits, improve financial decision-making, and manage stress related to finances. By integrating financial expertise with therapeutic techniques, financial therapy aims to create holistic financial health, ensuring that clients not only achieve their monetary goals but also experience greater peace of mind and emotional stability.
Benefits of Blending ACT and Financial Therapy
Combining Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with financial therapy offers a powerful and comprehensive approach to financial well-being. This integration helps clients address both the emotional and practical aspects of their financial lives. ACT's emphasis on mindfulness and value-driven action complements financial therapy's focus on behavioral change and financial literacy. Together, they provide clients with tools to accept financial stressors, commit to healthier financial habits, and align their financial actions with their personal values. This holistic approach promotes lasting financial health, emotional resilience, and a balanced, fulfilling life.
ACT + Financial Therapy client scenarios in California
Here are examples of clients who have benefited from ACT and Financial Therapy in California.
Enrique and Sarit, Los Angeles
Enrique and Sarit have been married for 26 years. They are retired and enjoy each other immensely. However, they reached out as money conversations are challenging, and wanted to heal this part of their relationship. Through financial therapy, they listened to each other’s money stories and limiting messages that led to their conflict. Enrique experienced periods of financial trauma in his previous marriage and was constantly chasing debt. Additionally, they live in Los Angeles and Enrique fears the cost of living adjustments in their retirement. As a result, he has a hard time spending money. Sarit wishes to enjoy their retirement and savings but is hesitant to verbalize “wanting” things. Through ACT, they were able to accept these opposing views, learn to respond differently in financial situations, start spending dates, and take actions to focus on their overall lifestyle goals. They reported increased quality of life, positive communication, and relationship satisfaction.
Ben, San Francisco
Ben presented after being referred by his tax attorney in San Francisco for chronic underpayment of taxes. Ben reports he had engaged in a cycle of increasing avoidance over the last decade that resulted in extreme anxiety and avoidance of his finances. Through financial therapy, he identified limiting money beliefs about the amount he had to pay as a high-income earner. Through ACT, he learned to accept these challenging thoughts, learned skills to reduce his anxiety, identified and focused on his core values, and started taking action toward being in control of his finances.
The benefits of ACT + Financial Therapy with Koru Financial Therapy in California
Koru Financial Therapy in California offers a holistic approach to addressing money stress and anxiety for Californians. Read below for ways in which Koru Financial Therapy can help.
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Koru Financial Therapy works with you to integrate emotional wellbeing with financial health for comprehensive support, addressing both financial behaviors and underlying emotional factors.
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Koru Financial Therapy helps you develop coping skills to manage your symptoms and improve your financial habits.
We utilize mindfulness and acceptance techniques to reduce financial stress and anxiety, helping you cope with California's high cost of living and economic pressures.
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Koru Financial Therapy works with you to develop healthier money behaviors and decision-making skills, enabling residents to manage expenses and savings more effectively in an expensive state.
Our clients often benefit from structured routines and systems to help stay on track with their finances.
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Koru Financial Therapy creates tailored financial mindset and lifestyle strategies that align with individual values and life goals, considering California's unique economic environment and cost of living.
Koru Financial Therapy assists you in creating personalized systems for organizing financial documents, setting reminders for bill payments, and establishing regular financial check-ins to maintain accountability and consistency.
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Koru Financial Therapy helps you to build emotional resilience to handle financial setbacks and uncertainties, such as natural disasters (wildfires, earthquakes) and market volatility.
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Koru Financial Therapy facilitates better communication and harmony in family and partner financial discussions, reducing stress and conflict over high living costs and financial decisions.
It provides a safe, non-judgmental, and neuro-supportive space for clients to explore and address emotions, fostering a sense of acceptance, empowerment, and resilience in managing your finances together.
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Koru Financial Therapy empowers individuals, couples, families, and solopreneurs to take control of their finances with confidence and clarity, overcoming challenges like high housing costs and income inequality.
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Koru Financial Therapy ensures financial actions align with personal values and priorities, helping clients make mindful decisions in a state with diverse economic opportunities and challenges.
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Koru Financial Therapy provides strategies for managing finances effectively despite ADHD-related difficulties, addressing issues like impulsive spending and disorganization.
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Koru Financial Therapy offers tailored support for solopreneurs balancing business and personal financial needs, considering California's vibrant but competitive entrepreneurial landscape.
Begin ACT in California with Koru Financial Therapy
At Koru Financial Therapy in California, we offer support for clients who would benefit from to help them navigate overwhelm, procrastination, impulsiveness, or disorganization with their money. Our financial therapists are here to provide evidence-based treatment so that you can gain insight into what activates your ADHD and develop strategies to help you feel more in control of your finances and your wellbeing. If you are ready to get started, follow these simple steps:
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Click on the button to schedule your free 20- minute consultation. We will reach out within 24 hours with some time options.
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On the call we can go over your needs and concerns. Being that rapport is an important part of therapy, we can explore if we are a good fit. If not, we can provide you with resources or other referrals.
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Plan for 4-6 sessions to explore your money story, beliefs, and values, learn coping and financial skills, set goals, and start taking steps toward your goals.
The first 3-4 sessions will be weekly, then bi-weekly, and as indicated.
Cost
Koru Financial Therapy provides a range of services to meet the mental health and financial therapy needs of Californians
Koru Financial Therapy is an out-of-network provider, meaning they do not take insurance. They can provide a superbill.
Other therapy services at Koru Financial Therapy
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Couples Financial Therapy
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Group Financial Therapy
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Meet Your Financial Therapist
Mariah Hudler
Owner and Financial Therapist
You want a successful and meaningful relationship with your money emotionally and financially. ACT + Financial Therapy is a step towards joy, wealth, and wellbeing.
Hi, I’m Mariah. I am a licensed psychotherapist and certified financial therapist based in California who focuses on helping individuals, couples, families, and entrepreneurs create healthy relationships with their money. My specialties include premarital financial counseling, financial dysmorphia, money management, depression, adjustment, and money disorders.
My educational background includes first, a BA in Sociology from UC San Diego, and second, an MSW, from UC Berkeley. My licensure is licensed clinical social worker in CA, LCSW65613.
I look forward to our work together.
Contact Us
Hours
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
10am–5pm
Phone
(916) 234-6733
Calls or emails will be returned within 24 hours during business days.
Services
In-person
Online