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“Mind Over Money: What Counselors Need to Know About the

Hidden Brain and its Influence on Money (And All Other) Behaviors”

Ted Klontz Ph.D.Klontz Consulting Group

www.klontzconsulting.com ted@klontzconsulting.com

Phone: 615-604-0059At Counsel: FBMM www.FBMM.com

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Hoarding + Risk Taking

Gambling

+ Spending

+ Buying

$$$ WORSHIPPING

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72 Denial Rejection

- Risk

- Spending - Work

$$$ AVOIDANT

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Incest Infidelity 13

DependenceEnabling

Relational

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45 Assessment:Free Money Disorder Test 14

• WWW.YourMentalWealth.com• Code: mindovermoney

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Born Into Debt: Gene Linked to Credit Balances? 16

• • We tend to blame

people carrying debt on factors such as high interest rates and irresponsible spending.

• A recent study shows that a particular gene affects financial behavior

Scientific American Mind 8/10 (UC San Diego/London School of Economics)

Low-Efficiency MAOA Gene = Impulsiveness

NIDA Quote

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A Challenge To The Addiction/Compulsivity Field 18

• “Think of it as if the brain were an orchestra, its circuits being the violins and the piano, and the brass section, all smoothly starting and stopping their parts on cue….That orchestration is disrupted in psychiatric illness. There is not a psychiatric disease that owns one particular circuit. So at NIDA, we are calling for more research into treatments that could target circuits involved with cognitive control, better decision-making and resistance to impulses”.

Help

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How Do We Help? 21

• “…(seek)….treatments that…target (brain)circuits involved with cognitive control, better decision-making and resistance to impulses”

• “Of 3,500 addicts, (27,000 EKG brain scans) I see a trauma print that has been self medicated. The trauma print is the key, not the genetic propensity (10%), not the environment (10%), not the internal anxiety (80%)” Gerdes

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‘Technologies’ * designed for the Brain to See/Rebalance Itself 27

*…the science of the application of knowledge to practical purposes”

• Medication• Peer support• Massage• Body/Energy Work” (Acupuncture/Pressure, Sacro-Cranial, Chiropractic,

etc.• Body movement, manipulation • Didactic therapy• Group Therapy• EMDR• Brain-Spotting• Surgery• Experiential Therapies: Art, Play, Animal Assisted, Adventure,

Enactment/Reenactment….. • Neuro-feedback therapies (Not all are equal)

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Questions/Comments

Ted Klontz Ph.D.Klontz Consulting Group

www.klontzconsulting.com ted@klontzconsulting.com

Phone: 615-604-0059At Counsel: FBMM www.FBMM.com

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