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The Money Conversations Your Therapist Can’t Have With You

The integration your bank account has been waiting for

Shaneh Woods

Posted to Substack – Feb 06, 2026

Your therapist asks you about your mother.
I ask you about your money.

And sometimes—often—the answers sound remarkably similar.

“She never thought I was good enough.”
“I’m always anxious it will run out.”
“I can’t trust it to stay.”

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The same wound. Different manifestation. Your therapist can hold space for the wound, but they can’t reconcile your bank account.

I am not a therapist.

I won’t diagnose your attachment style or unpack your childhood during tax season, but I can help you change your relationship with money.

I can help you reclaim your agency with money.

I can help you release the old patterns you’ve been clinging to like a woobie—that tattered baby blanket you can’t quite let go of even though it stopped serving you years ago.

There are conversations to have with a therapist.
There are conversations to have with a bookkeeper.

And there are conversations that live in the space between—where the soul meets the science of money.

That’s where I work.


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