Financial Trauma via gambling
Essential Elements of Financial Trauma Associated with Gambling: -Individuals grappling with GAMBLING DISORDERS often find themselves draining their savings, maxing out credit cards, and potentially jeopardising their homes, vehicles, and other significant possessions in an attempt to settle their debts. - PROBLEMATIC OR ADDICTIVE GAMBLING results in challenges in covering essential expenses such as rent, food, utilities, and healthcare. - GAMBLING frequently leads to lying about financial disclosures, and substantial, unmanageable debts, resulting in the reliance on high-interest payday loans or borrowing from friends and family. - The FINANCIAL HEARTACHE can endure for years, often persisting well beyond the cessation of gambling activities. - GAMBLING impacts families, with studies showing that an individual's gambling issues adversely affect at least 6-7 others, frequently leading to financial difficulties for partners and children. - FINANCIAL STRESS causes anguish and suffering and may result in reduced productivity, employment termination, and in some cases, unlawful actions to support the addiction, including fraud.
Therapy approach
- Dan empathically navigates the complexities of human behaviour.
- Dan exhibits considerable proficiency in a diverse array of counselling modalities.
- He maintains a neutral environment where individuals can openly share vulnerable thoughts and feelings without fear of humiliation or judgement.
Session formats
- Zoom/Telehealth Therapy, Outdoor Therapy, Therapy at your home, Therapy in my office, Extended Therapy Consultation, Intake Consultation.
FAQs
Why is gambling so overwhelming for the gamblers loved ones?
Family members and partners of problem gamblers often suffer deeper, chronic harm due to sudden financial devastation, hidden debts, and shattered trust. They shoulder extra responsibilities, experience betrayal and isolation, and face anxiety, depression, and trauma. Intertwined finances heighten insecurity, and links to family or intimate partner violence further expose them to emotional and physical abuse.