Kahler Financial Group President Rick Kahler’s Financial Wellness Workshop “Heals Money Issues” for Private Clients and Celebrities Alike

(Rapid City, SD – 3rd, November 2005) Working in conjunction with celebrated psychologist Ted Klontz, KFG President Rick Kahler (www.rickkahler.com) has co-founded a financial wellness workshop designed to help people understand their money relationships titled “Healing Money Issues (http://www.rickkahler.com/Events.htm).”

The “Healing Money Issues Program” is a five-day financial wellness program hosted through Onsite Workshops (http://www.rickkahler.com/Events.htm), based in Nashville Tennessee and founded and directed by Ted Klontz, a licensed clinical psychologist, certified substance abuse counselor, psychotherapist, researcher, consultant, and coach. Onsite holds a variety of wellness programs, of which the “Healing Money Issues Program” is a part.

The program is already helping both private individuals and celebrity clients alike. Wynonna Judd, as one of Kahler and Klontz’s celebrity clients, credits the pair for their work, referring to them as her “life coaches” in her new book (Coming Home To Myself) and in recent appearances on programs like The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Tonight Show, Ellen, and Larry King Live. Wynonna credits Klontz and Kahler’s unique approach—unified financial planning and experiential therapy—in overcoming her financial challenges and improving her relationship with money.

“Healing Money Issues” combines experiential therapy with nuts and bolts financial planning. Clients who enter the program work with Klontz and Kahler to examine life experiences that shaped their present outlook when it comes to money—processing feelings that are attached to these beliefs in an attempt to re-shape their money relations into ones that are positive. The Wall Street Journal recently referred to Klontz and Kahler’s program as "an innovative effort.”

“The American Psychological Association recently reported that unresolved money issues is the number one source of stress for most Americans,” said Kahler. “For many people, current painful or confusing money issues—overspending, hoarding, entitlement, ‘thinking poor,’ debting (sic), and the inability to invest, save, or plan wisely—have ties to innocent beliefs and feelings from our pasts. Brad and I have structured this program to address those issues. I deal with the financial side and aid Brad in discovering the psychological roots of our clients’ money problems.”

By employing experiential techniques such as psychodrama, guided imagery, meditations, written exercises, and small group exercises in their examinations of their clients’ respective financial situations, Klontz asserts that he Kahler can “analyze how their [clients] financial issues relate to family dynamics, unresolved traumas, losses, shames, emotions, dreams and hopes. By the program's end, participants have an opportunity to identify a plan of recovery for their financial issues.”


“We are always pleased and excited to see our clients make strides towards both personal and financial balance as a result of the [Healing Money Issues] program,” said Kahler, “It doesn’t matter if you are an average Joe with some serious financial wounds to heal, or a celebrity and legendary performer like Wynonna. Every case is important to us. We hope this additional exposure will open us up to a new set of folks that need help in healing their financial wounds.”

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON RICK KAHLER:
Rick Kahler, CFP, ChFC, CCIM, is President of Kahler Financial Group and Prudential Kahler Realtors and one of the first fee-only financial planners in South Dakota. He began his professional career at age 18, selling and appraising real estate. Bloomberg Wealth Manager Magazine (Aug 2005) recognized Kahler Financial Group as the largest wealth manager in a five state area. Kahler was also appointed to manage the State of South Dakota’s six billion dollar retirement portfolio from 1998-2003.

While endeavoring to help clients understand their relationship with money Rick has teamed up with counselors and assisted in advised changes in behavior. The Wall Street Journal refers to his Financial Integration Workshops as “an innovative effort that combines experiential therapy with nuts and bolts of financial planning.” Kahler is also the co-founder of the Klontz-Kahler Institute, dedicated to training financial planners and counselors the art of financial integration.

Rick’s work has been published or cited in USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Journal of Financial Planning, Consumer Reports, Money Magazine, Bloomberg Wealth Manager, Counselor Magazine, Registered Representative, and Solutions. He has co-authored The Financial Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge, (Health Communications, Inc., 2005) with psychologists Ted Klontz, PhD and Brad Klontz, PhD; slated to release in November 2005.