Financial Therapy

It's time to heal your relationship with money

At Grit Therapy, we know that regardless of your financial situation, money can be STRESSFUL!

We help individuals and couples transform their relationship with money so they can move from shame, stress, and fear to confidence, empowerment, and security.

You deserve to get unstuck

Heal your relationship with money.

Build a future rooted in clarity, confidence, and compassion.

Money is one of the most emotionally charged parts of our lives. It affects our safety, our choices, our relationships, and how we see ourselves. At Grit Therapy, we know that financial wellbeing is deeply connected to mental wellbeing. That’s why we now offer specialized financial therapy, offered by our founder and clinical director, Jane Thatcher Hahn, LCSW, who has been training with the Financial Therapy Association to bring this powerful work to our community.

Common Concerns Financial Therapy Can Help With:

Money anxiety, guilt, or shame

Scarcity mindset and fear of not having enough

Overspending, impulsivity, or avoidance

Chronic stress around bills, debt, or budgeting

Conflicts with a partner about finances

Feeling overwhelmed or “bad with money”

Fear of looking at accounts, statements, or making decisions

Confusing or painful financial conversations in relationships

Generational financial trauma or learned patterns

Feeling stuck, helpless, or unsure where to start

Financial Therapy at Grit can be done in conjunction with your current individual or couples therapy (Jane loves to collaborate!), or on it's own.

Call today to see if working with Jane is right for you

What Is Financial Therapy?

Financial therapy is a research-informed approach that blends emotional insight with practical financial skills. Instead of focusing only on numbers or budgets, it helps you understand why you think, feel, and behave the way you do around money.

This work explores your money story, your beliefs, and the patterns you learned from family, culture, and lived experience. Through therapy, you can build clarity, reduce shame, and develop a healthier, more empowered relationship with money.

Whether you’re working through anxiety, avoidance, conflict, or simply wanting more alignment between your spending and your values—financial therapy provides a meaningful, grounded space to grow.

How We Can Help

At Grit Therapy, we offer both individual and couples financial therapy sessions.

Individual Financial Therapy

Jane helps you explore the emotional roots of your money habits, including:

Your money scripts and stories
How anxiety, shame, or avoidance show up
Patterns around earning, spending, saving, or giving
Blocks that keep you from financial clarity or confidence
How to build financial behaviors aligned with your values

This work helps you create stability from the inside out—and supports long-term change.

Couples Financial Therapy

Money is one of the biggest stressors in relationships. Couples financial therapy can help you and your partner:

Understand each other’s financial histories and fears
Communicate more clearly and compassionately
Reduce conflict and find shared goals
Navigate differences in spending, saving, and risk tolerance
Repair past financial hurt or secrecy
Build a stronger, more collaborative financial future

Jane’s approach is warm, grounding, and deeply non-judgmental, making space for both partners to feel heard and supported.

Financial Therapy at Grit Therapy: A Trauma-Informed Approach

Money is deeply tied to our sense of safety, identity, and belonging. Many people carry financial fear or avoidance not because they’re “bad with money,” but because their nervous system is overwhelmed or their past created patterns of survival.

At Grit Therapy, we use a trauma-informed lens to help you explore:

How past experiences shaped your money habits
How fear, shame, or scarcity shows up in your body
How to move from survival mode into clarity and choice

Your financial life deserves compassion—not judgment.

What a Financial Therapy Session Looks Like

Financial therapy sessions are collaborative, curious, and designed to meet you exactly where you are. While every client is different, sessions may include:

Exploring your money story and how it affects current behaviors
Identifying financial triggers and emotional patterns
Naming goals and values that guide your financial decisions
Using grounding techniques when anxiety or shame shows up
Building practical skills like communicating about money, planning, or setting boundaries
Strengthening your ability to make aligned, confident choices

You don’t need to have your finances “figured out” before coming in. This is the place to figure them out.

Who Financial Therapy Is For

Financial therapy can support people who:

Feel overwhelmed or stressed by money
Want to improve their financial communication in relationships
Experience fear, guilt, or avoidance around finances
Struggle with impulsive or compulsive spending
Feel out of control with budgeting or planning
Want to explore money blocks in career, life transitions, or entrepreneurship
Carry generational or cultural financial trauma
Feel stuck despite wanting to change their patterns

If money feels emotionally loaded for you, you are not alone—and financial therapy can help.

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Why Work With a Clinician Trained Through the Financial Therapy Association?

Financial therapy is a specialized field that blends mental health, behavioral economics, financial planning, and relational work.

Jane’s training through the Financial Therapy Association ensures that she brings:

Evidence-based financial psychology
A deep understanding of money scripts and behavioral patterns
Tools for reducing shame and emotional reactivity
Skills for financial communication in individuals and couples
A balanced approach that honors both emotional healing and practical change

This puts you in the hands of a clinician who understands both the inner work and the outer tools needed to create sustainable financial wellbeing.

Our Philosophy: Money Is Emotional

At Grit Therapy, we believe:

You are not lazy, irresponsible, or “bad with money.”
You’ve developed patterns that helped you survive.
With insight and support, those patterns can evolve.
Financial peace isn’t about perfection—it’s about alignment.

This work isn’t about judgment or pressure. It’s about helping you find clarity, self-trust, and stability in a way that fits your life.

Your Financial Therapist

Hi! I’m Jane. I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and the founder of Grit Therapy. Before starting my practice, I became deeply interested in money mindset and the emotional patterns we all carry around finances, especially within the therapy field, where stories about under-earning or taking a “vow of poverty” are incredibly common. As I worked with clients, I began to notice how profoundly money was shaping their emotional lives, relationships, confidence, and sense of possibility.

This sparked my passion for financial therapy. After studying with the Financial Therapy Association, I’m excited to now offer this important and often overlooked form of support to individuals and couples in our community.

As both a therapist and social worker, I’ve worked in residential treatment, public schools, community centers, and private practice. As a music and creative writing educator, I’ve taught creative humans from infancy through adulthood in both private and community settings.

I live in Denver with my husband and two cats. In my free time, you can find me hiking, camping, spending time with the people I love, writing, or playing rock ’n’ roll.

Begin Financial Therapy in Summit County, Wheat Ridge, or Online

You have the right to compassionate, informed, and effective therapy. Our team can offer support from our Silverthorne or Wheat Ridge, CO offices, or online!

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Other Services Offered with Grit Therapy

Financial Therapy isn't the only service we provide at Grit Therapy. We also provide therapy for depression, anxiety and panic, trauma, EMDR, addiction counseling, parent coaching, and eating disorders. For new and expecting mothers, we provide support for pregnancy and postpartum. Additionally, we provide sliding scale therapy, ketamine therapy, and support for clients of all ages via family therapy and older adult therapy. Feel free to visit our blog or about page to learn more today!