Our Founder

Financial Therapy Support Groups are the culmination of my work over the past fourteen years, as I created first “Femonomics” and then the Financial Social Work discipline.

reeta “Femonomics” (the gender of money) and Financial Social Work began in the mid 1990's. Over the years my work predominently focused on teaching and training social workers and non-social workers to do the work I had created, with their clients. While I worked individually with clients, in my own private practice, my dream was to bring my experiential model of ONGOING education, motivation and support to clients across the U.S. and around the world which we are now doing through our online groups.

Financial Therapy Support Groups are all about HOPE, HELP and CHANGE. My joy, passion and excitement for these groups is surpassed only by the enthusiasm of all the group members who finally have a safe and private place, and a cost effective method for sharing their journey to sustainable long-term financial behavioral change, with others in similar circumstances. We invite you to join us.

If you would like to know more about the philosophy upon which the groups are based, go here. Below is more recent information on my own journey to creating Financial Therapy Support Groups:

Nationally known motivational speaker and expert Reeta Wolfsohn, CMSW, is the founder of the Financial Social Work discipline and of ”Femonomics“. She is a therapist, author, keynote speaker and trainer on money from a psycho-social perspective.

In 2007 Reeta:

Was a Diamond Award winner for Outstanding Achievement for Women in Business.
Consulted to create the first Financial Social Work position in NC-DSS.

In 2008 Reeta:

Was appointed by the Governor of North Carolina to the Board of the NC Women’s Council.
Was a National Foundation of Credit Counselors PACE judge and keynote speaker.

In 2009 Reeta:

Taught the first graduate level Financial Social Work class at the University of Maryland School of Social Work.
Brought Financial Social Work to the University of Missouri and to Rutgers University.
A UNC Chapel Hill social work professor researched the Financial Social Work model.
Keynoted and trained at numerous national and state conferences from North Carolina to Montana, including the NCTC and the CSWE (Council on Social Work Education.)

Financial Social Work is being practiced across the United States and in other countries by men and women working with populations as diverse as the Military and Veterans and clients on Dialysis, with Cancer and with HIV-AIDS, in Branches of state and federal government, and in Criminal Justice, Domestic Violence, Adolescent Pregnancy, Foster Care, Departments of Social Services, Goodwill, United Way, Universities, Private Practice, Drug and Alcohol Rehab Programs, Not for Profits Working to End Poverty and to help clients build assets and Employee Assistance Departments (of national and international companies) etc.