AuDHD Flourishing 136 Financial Therapy with Christine Hargrove
Mar 28, 2026
Christine Hargrove, a licensed marriage and family therapist who practices financial therapy for people with ADHD. She explains what financial therapy looks like and how ADHD affects money management. She describes tools like financial genograms, simple spending categories, automation, and the SAVER app test. She emphasizes building a budget you can follow on your worst day.
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Family Money Stories Shape Adult Finance
- Insight: Money patterns transmit through family narratives and shape adult behavior.
- Christine uses financial genograms to reveal inherited messages, events, and gender dynamics that explain current money meanings and reactions.
ADHD Widens Financial Fragility
- Insight: ADHD increases financial fragility across earning, managing, and saving.
- Christine summarizes research showing more career changes, lower savings, and that small missed payments often drive poor credit scores.
ADHDers Make Better Choices For Others Than Themselves
- Insight: People with ADHD decide better for others than for themselves.
- Christine notes research where ADHDers choose well for others but struggle when asked what they'd do for themselves, tied to stress and low financial self-efficacy.