The following services are usually provided through direct, face-to-face contact. In some circumstances consultations, coaching, counseling, and mentoring can be done using telephone or e-mail contact.

• CONSULTATIONS for individuals, couples, families, and organizations can be scheduled for those interested in reviewing how they are relating to money and how they can make it a tool for achieving their personal or relationship goals.
  
  
• COACHING, PSYCHOLOGICAL WEALTH COUNSELING, and MENTORING
  
  Coaching and Wealth Counseling, are related terms, indicating a relationship in which one person (The Coach or Counselor ) acts as a guide and provides advice and support for another (The Client) who wants to construct a life plan or to clarify and modify some aspect of his or her approach to life and relationships. The process may take the form of a relaxed, open ended discussion or it may focus on achievement of specific goals of the client's choosing. (For example: making a career choice, deciding to marry, parenting, relationship to work and leisure, passing on a family business to the next generation, retirement, or legacy and estate planning.) Psychological Wealth Counseling is a service often requested by recent inheritors or recipients of sudden wealth or by wealth creators and established high net-worth individuals and families who are concerned about the impact of wealth on their lives and relationships. It is also a valuable service for those with less wealth who are seeking to better understand and manage their relationship to money.
  
  
• PSYCHOTHERAPY
  
  Psychotherapy is a service offered by a qualified and licensed professional to help individuals, couples, or families experiencing emotional or mental problems that are more than usually painful or which negatively affect ability to function normally. Conditions requiring psychotherapy may include anxiety, depression, interpersonal conflict, difficulty functioning at work or in social situations, gambling, impulsive spending, and more. While everyone experiences some problems from time to time, not all such problems require psychotherapy.
  
  While Dr. Trachtman is a qualified psychotherapist for both adults and children, he has begun to specialize in working with those clients who recognize and want help with problems connected with their relationship to money and wealth. This may involve exploring their attitudes and beliefs about the nature and value of money or the impact of money on their ability to be happy within themselves or to relate well to other people and to lead a fulfilling and productive life.
  
  Link: Read Two Psychotherapy Case Studies
  
  

FAMILY & DIVORCE MEDIATION and FAMILY BUSINESS CONFLICT RESOLUTION

Divorce and Family Mediation is available to couples who are interested in achieving a settlement that is fair and acceptable to all, without spending a lot of money. Whether you are planning a divorce, are separated, or are already divorced but still having conflicts over money, or if money issues are getting in the way of good parenting or your relationship to your children, mediation can help you to stop fighting and begin cooperating.

Family Business Conflict Resolution based on the family mediation model conflict resolution services may be helpful in resolving disagreements and stresses in family businesses by facilitating communication, increasing understanding of each other's objectives, values and concerns, and by achieving obtainable and mutually acceptable win-win solutions.

LINK: Learn MORE about how Family and Divorce Mediation can help keep money from undermining your relationship to your children or keep you from being a good parent to them.

WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS, AND KEYNOTE SPEECHES can be designed to meet the needs of family meetings or organizations.

Past presentations and workshops have been provided to the following groups: high net-worth passengers on a Crystal Cruise between Australia and New Zealand; members of the community for Manhattans Jewish Community Center; The New York Psychoanalytic Institute; The New York State Society of Clinical Social Workers; The Learning Annex; high school students at a Rudolf Steiner school in Columbia County, New York; The Adult Learning Institute in Columbia County, New York; a group of colleagues in private practice in New York City; psychotherapists at The Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services in New York City; and psychotherapists at The Columbia County Mental Health Center in Hudson, New York.