Karen McCall is the founder and owner of the Financial Recovery Institutesm, http://www.financialrecovery.com, a national training resource that teaches a non-judgmental, holistic approach to financial counseling that helps individuals, couples and small business owners who are struggling with issues like over-spending, chronic debt, little or no savings, under-earning and so on, confront their problems, work through self-defeating attitudes and behaviors, and free themselves once and for all from the stress, chaos, pain and dysfunction in their lives so that they can build happy, fulfilling and sustainable lives for themselves. Explains McCall, “To make lasting changes in their financial lives, people need more than advice like reduce your expenses, consolidate your debts, and get a second job. They need to understand and transform their relationship with money.”
McCall honed her approach to financial counseling during her 20 years as a counselor. However, the seeds to her approach were sown during her own painful struggles with money --- struggles that nearly made her homeless.
A nationally known trainer, consultant, and passionate speaker on issues related to the practical, emotional and spiritual aspects of effective money management, McCall is the author of It’s Your Money: Achieving Financial Well-being (Chronicle Books) and MoneyMinder: Financial Recovery Workbook (Financial Recovery Press). She also contributed to I Shop, Therefore I Am: Compulsive Buying and the Search for Self (Jason Aronson Press), a book for mental health professionals and is working on a new book related to her counseling approach that will be published by New World Library in early 2010.
McCall has done numerous interviews with the media about the root causes of people’s money problems and her approach to overcoming them. For example, she has been quoted in such publications as Entrepreneur, Money Magazine, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, Bankrate.com, Bottom Line, Women’s Day, Working Mother, and USA Weekend as well as in numerous major dailies. She was also featured on the PBS series, The Financial Advisors.
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