The Financial Recovery Institute: Changing counselors’ lives for the better.

If you are wondering whether training as a Financial Recovery Counselor can enhance your existing work with clients or open the door to a rewarding new career – consider the results.

Feedback from Financial Recovery Counselors

“To say that training with Karen McCall is the best investment I’ve ever made is an understatement. No one knows how to work with people on their money issues better than Karen – the process she created is phenomenal, both in how it teaches people to take control of their finances, and how it gets to the root of deep-seated emotional blockages around money. Karen trained me to work with a wide variety of clients using her MoneyMinder® process. She is a gifted and highly intuitive teacher. The skills and self-confidence I gained from training with Karen allowed me to open my own financial counseling practice and create a thriving business. I’ve been successfully self-employed, making great money, for over 12 years now – and, my clients’ lives have truly changed as a result of the powerful financial recovery process. It gets results.”

Mikelann R. Valterra, MA
Founder, The Women's Earning Institute
Author: Why Women Earn Less: How to Make What You’re Really Worth (Career Press, 2004)

“I started working with Karen McCall as a client when I was deeply in debt. Using her tools, I am now debt-free, own my own home, and live the life I always dreamed of. Because this work was life-changing for me, I wanted to pass it on to others and went through Karen's training to become a Financial Recovery Counselor. Her knowledge and understanding of money disorders is extraordinary. She taught me how to effectively reach my clients, giving me the tools to counsel them in achieving their financial goals. With the skills she taught me, I’ve been able to retain my clients while expanding my practice, allowing me to quit my corporate job and become a fulltime counselor. I have found this work to be extremely rewarding and feel privileged to have worked with Karen for the last 10 years. Her guidance has been invaluable.”

Shelley Bayol
Concord, CA

“The first time I spoke with Karen McCall about the Financial Recovery Institute training, I was convinced she had a real solution to the widespread financial suffering in this country. How refreshing. Her process is not "yet another next, best fix-it-quick empty promise." Her program actually works. By taking trainees through the process, Karen teaches the skills in a highly effective, experiential manner. More importantly, her generosity, insight and unwavering support model what it means to be an outstanding financial counselor. Although I’ve said this work “borders on fun” it is so much more. When clients tell me that working together has changed their lives, I am humbled, honored and grateful to have found this training. Learning with Karen and my fellow trainees has been a quantum leap on the path to my dreams.”

Tessa Glasscock, MBA, EA
Founder, Clearview Financial Solutions

“As a small business owner of 10 years, I was seeking something that offered a new challenge – and where I would feel the rewards of helping others. Through sheer serendipity, I landed at www.financialrecovery.com and knew intuitively and immediately that Financial Recovery training was what I was looking for. During training, I had the benefit of Karen's many years of hands-on experience counseling her own clients, which she has passed along in a dynamic, insightful process to me and other trainees. Already, those I work with in Financial Recovery are showing the benefits of the skills and tools that I acquired to help them in their relationship with their money. Oh, and my own relationship with money has dramatically improved!”

Anne M. Ferguson
Financial Recovery Counselor

“During my training with Karen McCall, I was continually impressed with her ability to deliver information in a way that matched my learning style. As a licensed clinical psychologist, I appreciate that Karen enhances the knowledge of her trainees and increases their skills at a behavioral level. She is generous in sharing her own experience as well as practical tips about building business, all while helping people in need. Going through the training, I grew financially, and my own relationship with money was transformed.”

Marty Martin, PhD
Aurora, IL

“Through the Financial Recovery process, I made peace with money. I learned what was coming in, when bills were due, and my net worth. Using the tools of Financial Recovery, I eliminated consumer debt, saved money, and become so comfortable financially, emotionally, and spiritually, that I manifested my dream of self-employment. In addition to the skills necessary to become certified as a Financial Recovery Counselor, the training included business development and skills practice. I now have a profitable business and can share what I learned with others -- helping them make peace with money, too.”

Sue Holm, JD, CFRC
Seattle, WA