Financial Counseling with Gambling Disorder Clients
Thursday, March 9, 2023 1:00 – 2:30 PM CST
90-Minute Webinar
No fee to attend
Objective:
This workshop is an introduction to financial counseling with gambling disorder clients. Before this work can begin an assessment of the clients readiness to change must be done and then the client can begin to explore their relationship to money and beliefs about money. Just as a thorough biopsychosocial inventory helps us understand the client and what brings them to counseling, a thorough understanding of the client’s beliefs about money serves as a roadmap to see the path that can help restore a healthy relationship to money and to maintain the recovery process.
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Explore the meaning of money
- Know exercises to help client get a financial inventory
- Explore the client’s beliefs about money
Presenter:
Wiley D. Harwell, D. Min., LPC, ICGC-II, BACC is an LPC, an International Certified Gambling Counselor-level 2, and a Board Approved Clinical Consultant for gambling counselors.
Wiley is the Ex. Dir. Of Oklahoma Association on Problem Gambling and Gaming.
OAPGG is the official state affiliate for the National Council on Problem Gambling of which Wiley has been a board member for 6 years and the board president for two years.
OAPGG offers advocacy for problem gambling clients and their family members, provides the problem gambling helpline, works with all the tribes for responsible gambling programs and trains all the counselors in Oklahoma to become a certified gambling counselor.
Wiley has taught problem gambling and mindfulness classes across the United States and is currently working on a Basic Training curriculum will be used in many states.
In the past Wiley has been the director of an employee assistance program that served over 37 companies in Oklahoma and has been an associate professor in professional counseling at OU and has taught all the required courses for LADC licensure.