Brad Klontz, PsyD, has a suggestion for fellow practitioners eager to find the root of a client’s stress: Start each clinical assessment by asking how much debt he or she has.
“Often, their No. 1 stressor is money, and that was true even before the economic crisis,” says Klontz, co-founder of Your Mental Health™ in Kapaa, Hawaii.
Klontz, winner of this month’s Innovative Practitioner Award, specializes in helping people who struggle with money-related psychological problems, such as overspending, compulsive hoarding, workaholism and carrying too much debt.
