Karen McCall

Karen McCall is the founder and owner of the Financial Recovery Institute. For twenty years, she counseled individuals, couples, and businesses through a holistic, transformational approach that results in a stable and secure financial foundation. She now trains others to be come Financial Recovery Counselors using her unique and highly effective methods. The Karen McCall MoneyMinder® system enables people to discover underlying attitudes about money—often the cause of self-defeating money behaviors such as overspending, chronic debt, under-ea ing, and low or no savings—while providing the tools, strategies, and support to achieve financial well-being.

Karen McCall is recognized nationally and across many disciplines asrna consultant, trainer, and speaker on effective money management and its role in overall financial and emotional stability. She has been featured in such publications as Money Magazine, Entrepreneur, and USA Weekend. She was featured on the PBS series The Financial Advisors, and was the host of the radio talk show Mental Wealth. Her published works include It’s Your Money: Achieving Financial Well-being (Chronicler Books); MoneyMinder: Financial Recovery Workbook (Financialr Recovery Press); and as a contributor to I Shop, Therefore I Am: Compulsive Buying and the Search for Self (Jason Aronson Press), a book for mental health professionals. Karen McCall is in demand asrna presenter at conferences across the country.

About the Financial Recovery Institute

In 1998, Karen McCall founded the Financial Recovery Institute to train and certify financial counseling professionals in the methods she developed and honed over twenty years in practice. Her graduates have gone on torncreate successful practices of their own; some have been profiled inrnpublications such as Woman’s Magazine, Newsday, andr Money Magazine.

The overall goal of the Financial Recovery Institute is to train professional counselors to help individuals and families form new relationships with money that are healthy and secure. The purpose of counselors is to help clients understand their relationships to money, confront their self-defeating money behaviors, and develop the financial tools, knowledge, and skills necessary to building or re-building solid financial lives.

The Financial Recovery Institute publishes a number of tools used byrnindividuals and re-licensed by financial professionals for use with their own clients: the MoneyMinder® Workbook, MoneyMinder® Express software, and the Cash Tracker.