The Money Trap: A Practical Program to Stop Self-Defeating Financial Habits So You Can Reclaim Your Grip on Life

A leading addiction recovery specialist and financial counselor helps readers deal with recurrent money problems and get to the reasons behind these detrimental spending habits by identifying the most common problems and provides guidelines that will help control spending and borrowing as well as establish a practical financial structure.

Ron Gallen is a financial counselor who specializes in helping people with recurrent and addictive money problems. He has been a pioneer in the understanding and treatment of self-defeating relationships with money and work.

Ron was trained in addiction counseling and intervention at Rutgers Center for Alcoholism Studies. Working as a crisis intervention professional, he developed a groundbreaking approach to treating chronic money problems and helping those in recovery from other addictions to avoid relapse due to money issues. Ron was the first to identify the four main types of money disorders, their differential diagnosis, and to present a unified theory combined with a comprehensive treatment plan.

He is in private practice and has been a consultant to corporations, treatment centers, universities, and government agencies. These include Columbia University, The New York Times, The United Way, New York State Division of Substance Abuse, Cornell University Medical College, The Meadows Rehabilitation Center and the Employee Assistance Professionals Association National Conference.Ron has established The Institute for Financial Health, devoted to training clinicians toward understanding and treating those with money disorders and developing a Certified Money Counselor credential program.

A sought after speaker and teacher on money and debt, profiles of Ron and his work have appeared in newspapers and magazines around the world including an in-depth profile in The London Times.