‘Money pervades everything’: the psychotherapist delving into our deep anxiety about finances

‘Ultimately, all we can do is manage our own experience of what is going on out there in the world’: financial psychotherapist Vicky Reynal in her consulting room in London.‘Ultimately, all we can do is manage our own experience of what is going on out there in the world’: financial psychotherapist Vicky Reynal in her consulting room in London.

I’m fascinated by what my own financial choices might reveal about my psyche. So, when I go to meet Reynal at her consulting space in Vauxhall, London, I take the opportunity to ask her. Reynal greets me in the manner one would expect from someone who deals with money matters: with a firm handshake and a businesslike demeanour. Smartly dressed in black trousers and shirt under a monochrome patterned blazer, she would not look out of place in any boardroom in the City.

Listening to this story, I do find it a little hard to empathise. I don’t doubt that to this particular client this was a very real problem. On the other hand, to many people struggling through a cost of living crisis, a £2m problem will not sound like much of a problem at all. Reynal’s case is that, while money can cause us real problems, for some, the way weabout money can be just as challenging.

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