Klontz Consulting Group provides customized consultation services designed to help clients learn better ways to meet the challenges of life. We assist them in establishing clear goals, provide opportunities to practice new skills, and help them change their limiting thoughts and behaviors about themselves, others and their world. In sum, we provide the synergy, structure and expertise to help people change.
Meet the Klontz Team
Brad Klontz, Psy.D., CSAC
Dr. Brad Klontz is the co-founder of Your Mental Wealth™, along with his father, Ted Klontz. He is a clinical psychologist, addictions specialist, consultant, speaker, peak performance coach, researcher, author, and internationally recognized expert in financial psychology. Dr. Klontz was awarded the 2009 Innovative Practice Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association due to his application of psychological interventions to help people with money and wealth issues and his innovative practice in financial psychology for practitioners across the country. He is a former President of the Hawaii Psychological Association and serves as the President of Coastal Clinics, Inc. based in Hawaii, which provides psychological services to children and families through the Hawaii Department of Education and Department of Health. Dr. Brad Klontz is also a Principal Investigator and research associate for Northwest Media, Inc., which creates innovative social learning and educational products for at-risk youth, parent training, and service providers. Leveraging his expertise in working with parents and teens, H&R Block has partnered with Dr. Klontz to help teach teens financial fitness and prepare for life after high school in the Dollars & Sense personal finance in-school curriculum and online resource center. In addition to being an accomplished researcher in the psychology of money, with Dr. Ted Klontz he co-authored the upcoming Mind Over Money, Wired for Wealth, The Financial Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge, and Facilitating Financial Health. He's also been featured on ABC News' 20/20, Good Morning America, CNN, and in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, NPR, Men’s Health Magazine, Women’s Health Magazine and hundreds of other national and international media outlets and professional magazines and journals, including serving as a blogger for Psychology Today. He is a sought after speaker on the topic of the psychology of money with both financial services and counseling audiences.
Ted Klontz, Ph.D., CSAT III, CET II
Dr. Ted Klontz is the Co-Founder of Your Mental Wealth™, along with his son Brad.
With over 40 years of counseling, consulting, and coaching experience, he’s recognized as a pioneer in the emerging field of financial psychology. Dr. Klontz has his own private consulting practice in Nashville, TN working with individuals, couples, and families ranging from all walks of life including athletes, entertainers, heirs, entertainment companies and financial planning practices in the area of optimum performance. He also serves as a consultant to Flood, Bumstead, McCready, and McCarthy, a major entertainment management group, serves as a consultant to Onsite Workshops, an internationally acclaimed personal growth organization, and works with corporate groups assisting in strategic planning, productivity and employee retention issues.
His long list of credits includes co-authoring: Mind Over Money, Wired for Wealth, The Financial Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge, Facilitating Financial Health, and has served as a contributing author of Chicken Soup for the Recovering Soul, Dancing With Destiny and Family Reconstruction as well as numerous professional articles. He has shared his expertise on The Today Show, Good Morning America, and ABC News’ 20/20 and has been quoted and featured in The Wall Street Journal, Money magazine, The New York Times and scores of other state, national and international media sources. He is a sought after speaker on the topic of the psychology of money with both financial services and counseling audiences.
Dr. Klontz lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife Margie.
Brenda Klontz Anderson
Brenda Klontz Anderson is Director of Operations for Klontz Consulting Group and a Project Manager for Wrightwood Capital and the Director of Operations for Waident Technology Solutions in Chicago, IL. Brenda graduated with a degree in Secondary Education and Psychology and taught high school for several years before moving into the corporate world.
Marjorie Zugich M.A.
Margie has a Master’s degree in both Education from the University of Michigan and Professional Counseling from Argosy University. She has been a senior manager in the public and private sector for over 30 years, the last 16 serving as CEO of Onsite Workshops. Her expertise includes couples’ issues, communication and writing, and human systems analysis.
Joni Klontz Wada, M.A.
Joni is a doctoral student in clinical psychology at Argosy University-Hawaii, completing her internship at Kaiser Permanente in Honolulu. Her clinical and research interests include mindfulness-based therapies, multicultural and women’s issues, and women and money.