Our Approach to Discussing Building Wealth Through Healthy Relationships
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Supporting Individuals: Individual Therapy
For many, money brings stress, shame, or fear, often shaped by family stories and expectations. We help individuals understand these patterns, build confidence, set boundaries, and make financial choices that reflect their own values.
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Supporting Couples: Couples Therapy
Money can be a difficult topic for couples, as family history and beliefs about wealth often create conflict or silence. We help partners talk openly, understand each other’s money stories, heal trust, and build fair, respectful, and connected financial plans.
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Supporting Families: Family Therapy
When families talk about inheritance, land, businesses, or generational wealth, old patterns, trauma, and power dynamics often surface. We help families slow down, communicate with care, and create clear agreements that honor culture, protect relationships, and support the future.
Change can be tough.
Whether your family is preparing for a major inheritance, passing down land or a business, or simply beginning to build generational wealth for the first time, emotions can run high. Conversations about money, legacy, and family history are often tied to unspoken trauma, power dynamics, and generational expectations.
At our practice, we offer individual, couples, and family therapy for navigating generational wealth in a way that centers healing, communication, and cultural context.
Schedule a free 30 minute consultation with our owner and clinical director to learn more and find the right therapist for you!
Why Seek Therapy in Colorado Around Wealth and Legacy?
Wealth and inheritance often carry more than financial weight. Families may face:
Unresolved conflict about who “deserves” what
Guilt or grief tied to financial gain or loss
Pressure to “break cycles” without tools or support
Power struggles between generations or siblings
Silence about money due to cultural or historical trauma
Fear of repeating patterns of disconnection, secrecy, or scarcity
We provide a trauma-informed, nonjudgmental space to name these dynamics, repair trust, and create shared meaning across generations.
A Holistic Approach to Family Therapy
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Our Approach to Legacy & Wealth-Focused Family Therapy
We view wealth not just as assets, but as the values, stories, land, labor, resilience, and healing passed through generations. Our therapists are trained to support nuanced, often emotional conversations around:
Intergenerational Communication: Bridging gaps in values, language, and expectations
Family Roles & Boundaries: Clarifying responsibilities without replicating harm
Financial Transparency: Learning to talk about money without shame or secrecy
Power & Privilege: Naming how racism, colonization, capitalism, and heteropatriarchy impact financial dynamics
Legacy Planning: Creating shared goals for what gets passed down — and what gets healed
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For Families Creating New Wealth, Not Just Inheriting It
Many BIPOC and LGBTQ+ families are the first generation to build wealth — starting businesses, buying property, or establishing long-term security. That journey can feel isolating, especially when navigating family ties, community expectations, and internalized narratives about money.
We help families:
Build healthy foundations for long-term success
Communicate about giving, investing, or saving
Prepare the next generation with emotional and financial readiness
Heal from survival mode while creating space for abundance
Therapists for Building Wealth and Legacy in Colorado
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Rory Dougall, LSW
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Zack Halpern, LSW
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Eden Mengistu, Social Work Student
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Josephine Ampaw, LCSW, MFTC, MA