Money Healing for Heart-Centred Helpers

Money Healing for Heart-Centred Helpers

From Therapists Off the Clock by Stephanie Dinsmore & Jodie Lockey-Duesling

March 3, 2026 · 28 min · Season 2 · Episode 5

About this episode

Stephanie Dinsmore discusses money healing for therapists, focusing on scarcity mindset and pricing structures.

In Episode 5 of My Aligned Practice , host Stephanie Dinsmore —psychotherapist, social worker, and group practice owner—dives into one of the most tender and transformational topics for therapists in private practice: money healing . Specifically, Stephanie speaks to heart-centered helpers who feel discomfort charging their worth, who struggle with a scarcity mindset, or who have unintentionally built pricing structures that lead to burnout and collapse. Stephanie explains that the scarcity mindset isn’t a character flaw—it’s often a nervous system pattern shaped by emotional labor, over giving, and lived experiences. She shares her personal story of growing up with financial instability and how scarcity has continued to show up in her system over the years, even as her practice has grown. She also speaks honestly about how trauma, attachment history, and the “helper identity” can lead practitioners—especially women—to chronically undercharge, undervalue their experience, and overwork in an attempt to compensate. A major focus of this episode is what Stephanie calls collapse rates : under-market pricing that eventually forces clinicians into survival mode, overload, and burnout…

People in this episode

Hosts: Stephanie Dinsmore, Jodie Lockey-Duesling

Topics covered

  • money healing
  • scarcity mindset
  • pricing structures
  • nervous system regulation
  • financial foundations
  • private practice

Keywords

  • money healing
  • scarcity mindset
  • undercharging
  • burnout
  • intuitive pricing
  • emotional labor
  • financial instability

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