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You Can Provide Higher Quality Treatment, Work Fewer Hours and Make a Better Living

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Szifra’s article is featured in the Massachusetts Association for Marriage & Family Therapy August 2012 Newsletter

by Szifra Birke

August 29, 2012

It is possible to offer highest quality treatment for your clients, earn an income that supports you and your family, and reduce your stress so that you can enjoy your time at work and your life outside work.

Over the last 20 years I’ve built three successful private practices. I was on several insurance panels; I was the go-to therapist for a couple of law enforcement EAPs, I used to see 20 or more clients a week; I worked for myself so I collected the entire fee. I was also discontent. [Read more…] about You Can Provide Higher Quality Treatment, Work Fewer Hours and Make a Better Living

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Coping With Stress as Markets Quake

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Szifra is quoted in this article at Financial Adviser – a blog by Dow Jones.

by Thomas Coyle

June 12, 2012

Here is a story, courtesy of psychologist Szifra Birke, of how one financial adviser literally started adding a little color to his dark days.

It was late in 2008, and for the past few months of market turmoil, the owner of a small investment-adviser boutique had been scrambling to keep clients calm in meetings, over the phone, via email and through regular bulletins. [Read more…] about Coping With Stress as Markets Quake

The Psychology of Wealth: Understand Your Relationship with Money and Achieve Prosperity

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Szifra  is quoted in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller.

by Charles Richards, Ph.D

Publication Date: January 17, 2012
McGraw-Hill Publisher

The Psychology of WealthPsychologist and wealth counselor Szifra Birke observes, “Money tends not to solve personal problems; money solves money problems.” Birke also reports that many financially wealthy people are actually burdened by a vague sense that they don’t deserve what they have. Our view of our worthiness seems to hinge in part on how we came by our financial gains and whether we have worked for them in incremental steps. Feelings of unworthiness are especially common in folks who suddenly or unexpectedly come into a large sum of money, such as through an inheritance (or, as we’ve seen, through a lottery win). They commonly experience “sudden wealth syndrome”; with the acquisition of financial riches, they feel lost and overwhelmed. [Read more…] about The Psychology of Wealth: Understand Your Relationship with Money and Achieve Prosperity

Coaching The Next Generation

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Szifra is quoted in this article at Financial Adviser – a blog by Dow Jones.

by Thomas Coyle

December 7, 2011

Once there was a boy who hated his family’s money.

He was a teenager when his blue-collar dad made a fortune almost overnight in the tech boom of the late 1990s. Suddenly it was good-bye middle-class home, public school and old friends, and hello mansion, private school and stuck-up rich kids.

“He was at a very impressionable age,” says Carolyn Decker of Lake Street Advisors, a Boston-based wealth-management firm that advises on about $3.2 billion. “He thought the money uprooted his life.”

Though his parents tried to interest him in the wealth, he resisted. “It’s not mine,” he’d tell them. [Read more…] about Coaching The Next Generation

Listen Up: Improving Client Relationship Skills Gaining Priority For Wealth Managers

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Wealth Management

Szifra is quoted in this article from wealthmanagement.com

by Charles Paikert

June 28, 2011

Four years ago, Abacus Planning Group, a 13-year old $700 million wealth management firm in Columbia, S.C., was growing at a good clip, gaining both clients and assets. But Cheryl Holland, president and founder of the firm, and a 25-year industry veteran, wasn’t satisfied. [Read more…] about Listen Up: Improving Client Relationship Skills Gaining Priority For Wealth Managers