Become a Trauma of Money^™ Certified Practitioner

Chantel Chapman is an International Bestselling Author—named to the USA Today Bestseller List and #1 on The Globe and Mail’s Canadian Non-Fiction list—for her book The Trauma of Money (Wiley, September 2025). She is a trauma survivor, financial trauma educator, and the creator of the Trauma of Money (TOM) Method. Her journey through complex PTSD—and her realization that traditional financial literacy couldn’t shift her own destructive money patterns—led her to uncover the profound link between trauma and financial behavior. In response, she spent years researching trauma, addiction, behavioral science, and economic systems to develop an innovative method for financial healing and empowerment. Chantel is the founder and CEO of the Trauma of Money Institute, an internationally recognized certification program that has trained thousands of professionals across more than 22 countries. The TOM Method is reshaping how we understand money—not just as numbers, but as something deeply shaped by emotion, lived experience, and systemic forces. With over 20 years of experience in financial education and fintech consulting, Chantel has taught and written curricula or programming for institutions such as Humber College, Wilfrid Laurier University, Adler University, and Simon Fraser University, and has worked with organizations including United Way, YMCA, NDN Collective, the American Psychological Association, JP Morgan Chase, and YPO. She also serves on the National Task Force for Economic Justice, supporting CCFWE’s mission to end financial abuse. A sought-after speaker and advisor on economic justice and trauma-sensitive practices, her work has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, NPR, and The Globe and Mail. Chantel is a settler of European descent who works and resides on the stolen traditional lands of the Kwantlen (kwaant·luhn), Musqueam (“mus-kwee-um”), and Tswassen (saa·wa·sn) peoples.

Sunnie Townsend (Pronouns: They/Them) is the Founder of Queer Care Connections an alternative resource for Trans and Queer Care. Sunnie's is a A-Binary, Sexually Queer and committed to being white and anti-racist. Sunnie is a queer care Specialist for LGBTQIA+ folks suffering from Trauma surrounding gender, sexuality, and or relgion. They believe in breaking down the barriers for Queer and Trans folx receiving emotional support and advocacy. Sunnie lives with their solar powered partner, Lauren and their young gender creative transfemme superhero kid, Elias, on Tocobaga land in Tampa Bay. Their family is trans & enby positive and doing all they can for Queer and Trans liberation. Contact info: SUNNIE@QUEERCARECONNECTIONS.COM IG: QueerCareConnections

Maceo Paisley is a multi-talented Los Angeles native whose titles include: artist, thinker, experience designer, founder of non-profit think tank and design group Citizens Of Culture, and consultant on company culture, diversity and team dynamics. As an experienced designer and workplace consultant, Paisley’s practice centers around art-based programs for emotional health, and is rooted in critical theory, behavioral economics and cultural studies. He investigates how we make decisions, collaborate and derive meaning from the world, designing experiences for social good. Paisley founded Citizens of Culture to help develop critical thinking skills and emotional intelligence and to combat resource inequity. The group creates spaces, experiences, education and content to shift mindsets, reveal insights and “find innovations in our social dynamics that lead to more holistic benefit in complex social systems.”

Joi K. Madison, international coach and speaker, has facilitated workshops and worked with clients spanning four continents. With a trauma-informed approach to emotional intelligence, she specializes in the use of self-awareness and cultural context to enhance relationships, manage finances, improve professional function and promote overall health and well-being. As a former personal trainer and fitness studio owner, Joi’s approach to wellness is wholistic in nature — mind, body and spirit. As an All-American collegiate athlete and academic scholar, her message and delivery is informed by her background as an elite sports coach, mentor and teacher. Founder of HealU Academy which provides self-guided online courses promoting socio-emotional wellness, Joi comes with experience doing non-profit program consulting, corporate wellness training, and clarity coaching with private clients. As of 2020, she is a graduate professor in the department of marriage and family therapy at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology.

I used to think that 'money made the world go round' and then I came across Sigmund Freud who believed that 'giving up money was like giving up a part of ourselves' and that 'just as a baby is obsessed with their poop we are obsessed with money' whether we have it or not. And then I came across Thich Nhat Hanh who once said: "Never own anything that you're not prepared to give away". And so these teachings have taught me how we are often dependent on money to bring about our happiness and success. MIndfulness continues to teach me that authentic happiness cannot be bought, and does not depend on our wealth. I am a certified Mindfulness teacher, Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner, and Facilitator, Life Coach and Recovery Coach. I co-developed Mindfulness-Based Addiction Recovery MBAR an 8-week secular course, and one-month online course, and train the trainer. I am also the author of 8 books including my award-winning book Eight Step Recovery - Using The Buddha's Teachings to Overcome Addiction, and Detox Your Heart - Meditations for Emotional Trauma. I will be available for one to one coaching around any issues to do with money. And you must be open to getting curious about your past.

Andrea Glik, LCSW is a somatic trauma therapist, supervisor, and educator. Andrea specializes in treating trauma, nervous system dysregulation, and PTSD, prioritizing women, survivors, and queer & trans folks. She utilizes neurobiological, body-based and feminist therapy practices to help clients feel safe in the present and come home to themselves. Andrea practices online, lives on stolen Osage & Sioux land, and can also be found on Instagram @somaticwitch and at andreaglik.com

Emmanuel Jal is a former child soldier from South Sudan, turned international recording artist, peace and reconciliation activist, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. Drawing on his personal experiences and background, he created My Life is Art, a global community which bridges the arts, business, and philanthropy in order to support people in finding their purpose in order to create a higher state of conscious global awakening. Emmanuel speaks, performs, and hosts leadership training workshops with a strong message of reconciliation and peace. He has addressed the UN, US Congress, the Carter Centre, and the highest level of several governments.

Dr. PennElys Droz, Anishinaabe and mixed European descendent, is a mother of five, Power Building and Curriculum Coordinator with NDN Collective, and founding board member of Sustainable Nations, an Indigenous regenerative community development organization. She has worked in Indigenous engineering and regenerative development for over twenty years, with the vision of the re-development of thriving ecologically, culturally and economically sustainable Indigenous Nations. She is a natural builder and lover of all things dirt, moss, lichen, and fungi.

Nika is an Iranian-American multidisciplinary storyteller and trauma therapist living and working in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. She pulls from her lived experience as an immigrant growing up in a diverse working class community to tell stories of human resilience and how we heal from adversity. She has been a practicing Somatic Experiencing Healer for a few years and is joyfully working with clients both in-person and virtually through the Long Spell Clinic.

Shayla Martin is a Washington, DC-based travel, style and lifestyle writer. She has contributed to Architectural Digest, New York Magazine, Veranda, The Daily Beast, Shondaland and more. Find more of her work at www.ShaylaMartin.com .

Naya's superpower is distilling people's skills, experiences, and interests into marketable, high ticket, and profitable services. Naya the Creative is a Brand Therapist and the founder of House of Brand Therapy and Side Hustle Business School. Naya creates brand messaging for businesses, personal brands, and career brands. Naya's been bringing brands to life with her words for 16 years. Naya recognized people have a difficult time communicating their value and standing out. At best, they aim to sound like a better version of someone else, or someone else's offer, at worst they sound like a second-hand version of someone else. Naya works to keep her clients from competing by making their "competition" irrelevant. Naya is honored to do the rewarding work of making her clients feel impressed with, and proud of, themselves. She's always humbled when clients say, "When you talk about me like that, I want to work with me! I never saw myself in that light, but that really is who I am!" Helping a client transform their self-impression and self-perspective, giving them the confidence to get what they want, never gets old! Naya spends much of her time writing, listening to R&B music, travelling the world to try foods, and is secretly (or not so secretly) obsessed with writing parodies! Feel free to strike up a conversation to gush about any of those, or reach out if you're ready to have the best parts of you highlighted and articulated so that audiences who have need you become excited to hire you — before you even know they exist!

Jaime is the Managing Director of Impact Investments at Common Future, where she leads lending and investments into community-rooted organizations to increase access, affordability, and power by providing catalytic capital and back office support to emerging funds and fund managers. Jaime is a co-founder and former co-director of Native Women Lead, where she led key initiatives in program design, capital strategies, advancement, and partnership development while overseeing data sovereignty, evaluation, and impact. Here, Jaime served as one of the primary architects of the Equality Can’t Challenge - the prospectus and competition that seeded $10mm into the The Future is Indigenous Women initiative. Jaime currently serves on UpTogether and New Mexico Women. Org’s Board of Directors - which are organizations leading and pushing locally and nationally on gender and economic justice and serves as a thought leader with the the Enlace Continental De Mujeres Indígenas De Las Americas and the Inclusive Indigenous Economic Ecosystem Collaborative weaving and advocating for economic justice from Canada to South America for Indigenous women across the Americas. She also serves on the advisory and governance boards for Justice Funders, Criterion Institute, and Kiva US, recently co-developing the Justice Funders - Just Transition in Investment Framework which will allocate at least $5mm to Indigenous Rematriation and LandBack efforts. In 2022, Jaime was appointed to serve on the National Women's Business Council with the core mission to provide advice and policy recommendations to the President, Congress, and the Small Business Administrator focusing on the access to capital subcommittee. As an intersectional movement builder, Jaime has worked on or continues to work with Justice Funders, Kindle Project’s Indigenous Women’s Flow Fund, the Trauma of Money, and NDN Collective’s - Collective Abundance Fund. Jaime is a fellow with the Center for Community Investment, Purpose Foundation, Boston Impact Initiative, New Mexico Tribal Data Champions, and Opportunity Finance Network. In 2020, she was appointed by the Governor of New Mexico to lead the Tribal Subcommittee for the New Mexico Statewide Complete Count Commission which leveraged an $11.5mm state investment to fund grassroots organizing and ecosystem activation during the pandemic and in 2010, led the Navajo Nation’s Decennial Census overseeing a staff of 3,000 and a budget of $7mm to ensure a complete count in the largest peacetime mobilization efforts in the US. Prior to her work at Common Future, Native Women Lead, and Roanhorse Consulting, Jaime began her career in finance when she developed Dreamspring’s (formerly Accion) Native Lending program and supported the development of Nusenda’s Co-Op Capital relationship-based lending initiative with Roanhorse Consulting. Supporting Native women is an honor and the heart work of Jaime. She believes in Native women as the innate caretakers, backbones, advocates, and protectors of children, culture, and community for the people and planet. She is inspired by the women she gets to work with, work for, and be guided by the Matriarchs and peers in her life. Jaime is committed to uplifting, empowering, and locking arms with Matriarchs making moves to lead their families and communities toward safety, economic justice, and a future space where we all thrive. Jaime is a mother of three, residing in Tiwa Territory (Albuquerque, New Mexico), and from the Navajo Nation, White Mountain Apache, and Kiowa Nations.

Flourishing Business Model Design Expert Ondine is a creative and innovative business designer and strategist, having started seven successful social enterprises over two decades in South Africa, Botswana and Canada. Ondine specializes in flourishing (the combination of social impact, environmental regeneration and financial viability) business model design. She is the co-founder of Lean4Flourishing, an organization focused on coaching, mentorship and the design of start-up accelerator and incubator programs that support Flourishing entrepreneurs reach Flourishing goals. Ondine holds an MBA, is a certified Intrinsic coach and Mindfulness facilitator. She is the author of Lean Start-up for Social Enterprise and Lean Startup Supporting Sustainability-as-Flourishing during the Early Stages of Enterprise Development. Ondine has worked with over 300 entrepreneurs, is the lead expert for European Union Climate KIC on Flourishing business model design, and is collaborating on projects in Europe, North America, South and West Africa.Ondine is a recent settler in Canada and resides on the unneeded lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation in Tiohtià:ke.

Shulamit is the Entrepreneurs' Therapist and co-founder of the Business Therapy Centre. Using coaching, somatic and therapeutic tools, she works with women business owners who want to develop, implement and be accountable for their mental health plan so they can connect head and heart and show up fully as their CEO-self in their businesses. Shulamit has been an entrepreneur for over 27 years and has over 22 years of professional experience supporting women's mental health and personal growth. As a licensed trauma therapist, certified trainer in Focusing and Nonviolent Communication, certified Trauma of Money facilitator, certified Kripalu Yoga teacher, trauma survivor and award-winning entrepreneur, Shula brings a unique perspective and approach to supporting women in business.

Jeneva has been affiliated with DEI, Anti- Racism, Justice, Leadership, and Wellness work for over the past 13 years. She is a 2x Award Winning Event Coordinator, an Award Winning Writer and spoke at numerous events including being the keynote speaker at Saint Martin’s University Gala which hosted over 3,000 people. She is a certified Life and Business Coach and has a Bachelor Arts Degree in Criminal Justice and a minor in Psychology. Jeneva has fostered relationships throughout the world including the United States, Ghana, Japan, and London to build community, innovate projects and create networks in a variety of settings and backgrounds. From founding the first Black Student Union at her high school to being the first Black Woman student body president at her University, she is now a trusted Coach, Consultant, Revolutionary Art Director, Keynote Speaker, and the founder and CEO of “Where is Neva?” (a multimedia platform that unites the diaspora through storytelling, travel, and wellness.) Her vision has always been to empower and inspire the world and beyond.

Catherine Just an award winning artist, photographer and intuitive healer living in Los Angeles where she was born and raised. Her artwork has been published on the cover of National Geographic, inside O magazine and is shown and sold online and in galleries internationally. Catherine got sober from a meth addiction at 18 years old and has 35 years of continuous sobriety. After getting sober she studied conceptual photography, film and video, receiving her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She learned how to take what was difficult to articulate in words and turn that into something she calls Visual Poetry. She apprenticed with Miguel Ruiz, Toltec Master Teacher and author of the Four Agreements, is certified in the McDonald Manifestion Method of EFT tapping and is becoming certified in the Trauma of Money Method and in the YES Method of Mindset and Abundance coaching. Catherine is dedicated to helping support people who want to get out of their own way, release what’s holding them back and learn to love themselves more deeply and make the work they’re here to make. She created the Art as Medicine Method and offers online courses, embodiment photography sessions in France and Los Angeles and healing sessions to artists, entrepreneurs and people in recovery. She is the proud single mama to her son Max who happens to have Down syndrome. She’s currently working on a mixed media project about her son Max, ableism, stereotypes and the value and worth inherent inside all of us.

Cicely is a diversity and inclusion consultant, activist and writer. They are one of Vancouver’s fifty most influential people of 2018, as awarded by Vancouver Magazine, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter - Vancouver, one of CBC’s 150 Black Womxn Making Change in Canada and BC Business 30 Under 30 2019 and has served as a member of the Canadian Youth Delegation to the United Nations. Cicely Belle runs Cicely Blain Consulting - a social-justice informed diversity and inclusion consulting company with over 50 clients across North America, Europe and Asia. Their work is informed by their professional and academic background at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University and their lived experience as a Black, queer artist, a community builder, an intersectional feminist and a Black liberation activist. Cicely Belle’s first book debuts in 2020.

As a Community Connector, Facilitator and Event Specialist of 8 years, Nafasi has focused her life’s work on building bridges, healing and transforming racial and economic equity. Hailing from a community and family rich in diversity of culture and philosophies in Altadena, California, Nafasi understands the importance and struggles of being immersed in many worlds. Nafasi is the founder and principal consultant of Narratives Unbound LLC, a Consulting and Education Company dedicated to advancing racial and economic equity through financial coaching, community workshops and youth leadership trainings. Through her one-on-one financial coaching and Stages of Wealth Building Program she equips clients and groups with the knowledge and confidence to understand the colonial history of money, develop a positive relationship with money, tackle debt and create a solid financial future. Her work focuses on working adults, youth and families to support them in decolonizing their wealth building through education, saving, investing, and redistribution. Nafasi holds two bachelor’s degrees in History and International Relations, and a master’s degree in Cultural Studies from the University of Washington Bothell.

A serial entrepreneur, community leader, panelist and speaker in the field of JHEDI (justice, healing, equity, decolonizing and intersectionality) my primary fields are: Decolonizing Travel & Culture |Community Container Architect and lifelong learning. Entrepreneurship that centres on the disruption and dismantling of white supremacy culture in the Travel, Tourism & Hospitality and Wellness industries. Her two most recent learning program completions are TOM – Trauma of Money and SFU Community Container Building Both programs which continued her trauma informed decolonizing education. In 2017 she Founded “Qmooniti Travel & Lifestyle”. After living and working internationally for a decade and traveling around the world several times, this global citizen utilizes her experience to inform her decisions for business development that focuses on inclusion and culture with a decolonizing lens while centering Black, Indigenous, people of colour, 2SLGBTQIA+, people with disabilities and the solo female/femme traveler as she bridges the gaps in the travel industry that have been created by systems of white supremacy. She has integrated decades of intersectional feminist activism and advocacy work and created Sisters Leading Sisters (a community container) which offers tools and resources to Black & Indigenous women/femmes and non-binary femme leaning folks. Sisters Leading Sisters is grounded in healing within the intersection of communities and is based on the tenet of UBUNTU “I am because you are”. They support leadership, emerging leaders, relationship building, mentoring, and building community that makes space for us all. They assist other entrepreneurs in learning to build any table they desire to sit at. She encourages interdependence and intersectionality, as methods to dismantle systems of oppression. Lystra has partnered with the likes of lululemon, BLM Vancouver, LUSH, and more, to support the SLS Community initiative. She has collaborated with local and international companies like DPM Consulting, Multiculturalism BC, Brass Lion Entertainment, Microsoft, and other firms to curate community initiatives, national and international leisure conferences, retreats and hybrid events from a decolonized and trauma informed approach. Email: lystra@qmooniti.com , info@sistersleadingsisters.com Social handle(s): LinkedIn @qmooniti, @sistersleadingsisters Website(s): https://www.qmooniti.com/ https://sistersleadingsisters.com/dream/

Meenadchi (she/her) is a somatic healing practitioner whose work centers the softness of meeting our best self and deepening into our collective light. Using a blend of Family Constellation Therapy and Non-Violent Communication, Meenadchi supports inquisitive individuals and entreprenuerial changemakers in reconnecting with the intuitive wisdom of your bodies so that we can co-create intergenerational healing by changing the way we speak to ourselves, each other, and the universe. Meenadchi holds a clinical license in occupational therapy and has historically served communities impacted by gender-based violence, complex trauma, and serious mental illness. She is the author of Decolonizing Non-Violent Communication (2019).