I have served many clients, both individuals and couples. Here what some of my clients have said about our experience and the impact of our work together.
Testimonials
After working with Elana, I feel transformed. Before working with her, I felt out of control of my spending and I dreaded reconciling my income and expenses at the end of each month. Now, I feel confident and empowered in my approach to money. Our live sessions and my homework–plus the feeling that she has been right along with me as I grow–have given me the insights and self-assurance I need to reach my short and long term goals. Thank you, Elana!
I worked with Elana for over a year. Our time together proved to be deeply transforming and uplifting to my life. During our time together, I unraveled and healed the unhealthy and unproductive relationships I had developed in relation to money. Because of that, I now live in greater balance, security, and joy in all facets of my life.
Elana’s guidance helped me recognize how emotional and spiritual needs had been playing out in my spending, and she offered practical, compassionate strategies I could actually implement. I now feel more connected to my money, my community, and myself.
Elana also encouraged me to set up and fund a separate House account for repairs, so I no longer have to stress every time something needs replacing in my 100-year-old home—a shift that brought immediate peace of mind.
My biggest win is that I’ve started making jewelry—something I love. I used to spend what felt like too much on jewelry, but becoming a creator of something beautiful and meaningful, rather than a consumer, has been far more rewarding.
Elana is direct, compassionate, and curious. She has a knack for balancing structure with creativity leaning into emergent pivots during meetings. The initial assessment process was really illuminating; Elana walked us through our stylistic differences and coached us on teamwork conversations given our strengths and preferences.
She helped us navigate challenges and align on priorities with a complicated financial situation we were facing, and gave us homework to help us move forward on our goals between sessions.
It's clear that Elana loves this work, and she really cares about us as individuals and partners; she asked a ton of questions about our values and dreams, and made efforts to personalize the sessions and highlight our wins.
Working with Elana has been life-changing and invaluable. Financial therapy has changed my life by helping me to reduce guilt/shame around finances, understand myself and how my emotions and life occurrences relate to my financial picture, have more compassion for myself, take baby steps towards my financial goals, and re-gain confidence in my ability to execute financial decisions.
Elana has completely changed how I look at my finances as a young professional in my 20s. Before working with Elana, I was overwhelmed by the prospect of designing my budget, spending, and savings in the "right way." After working with Elana, I feel empowered in the financial decisions I'm making and have an understanding of what the "right way" for me is.
With Elana's help, I've examined my psychological relationship with money - from how money was discussed in my family as a child, to the correlation between money and my life values, to what I want to save for and how I want to spend. Elana has also supported me in strengthening my financial literacy - explaining how different types of tools, accounts, and choices will have varying financial results for me now and in the future.
Elana is talented at what she does. I especially appreciate how she's tailored our sessions to fit my personality and working style. She is also incredibly compassionate and genuinely cares about my relationship between my emotional and financial well-being. I know that as I move through different financial stages of life, she'll be the first person I call to consult.
Elana has a gentle nature that makes me feel like I can talk about my personal financial situation and not feel embarrassed, under a microscope, nor judged. Elana helped me find a way to approach how I treat money. I never thought of money as a relationship (including how I treat it) until working with Elana. Since working with Elana my relationship with money is more open and money is like a person, respected, treated well, and I am honest about it. I am working on my relationship with money and it has helped me to say “No” to certain expenses. That is a big jump since I was raised as an enabler, and I want to please. Elana is a ray of sunshine in my life.
Elana was profoundly helpful in helping me to identify the family history and my own sense of values that lay behind my approach to finances and spending. She has a gentle, empathetic approach to discussing difficult financial issues, but also provides well-structured spreadsheets and worksheets to help put concrete data to complex feelings about and around money.
I feel more empowered. I have gained some action items and insights into my own behavior. I now feel less passive, instead I feel “I can do this!”
Elana, your presentation was amongst one of my favorites of all the keynote speakers I’ve attended at PEPC. You deliver a stellar blend of passion and wisdom that resonates deeply with what advisors seek in the psychology-of-money topic, demonstrating how this key piece fits into smart financial guidance.
