December 19, 2024 Over the past several weeks, the global news has been replete with examples of grim consequences leading to change within powerful systems. This backdrop has amplified my awareness of the role consequences play in my clients’ journeys toward mental health and relational well-being. Two examples...
Re: Wealth & Mental Health Over the holidays, I found myself re-visiting Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899). While Veblen's work was rejected by the elite institutions he challenged, his core concepts have endured and are highly relevant to my work at the intersection...
Mental Health and Wealth: Addressing difficult family issues through cultural competence and clinical excellence*. Dr. Paul Hokemeyer Key words: Wealth, UHNW, mental health, narcissism, author, family therapist, addiction treatment, family governance, family office, depression, anxiety, addiction, empirically based, Harvard, global leaders, thought leader, innovation, mft. When Tsitsi...
The other night at dinner I asked my clever and sensitive 14 year old Godson where he was getting his news. To my dismay, he answered Tik Tok. As we watched his favorite 16 year old Tik Tok 'newscaster' describing the days events in the...
Families are complex. Family businesses even more so. In this article, Dr. Paul Hokemeyer, the world's leading authority on issues relating to wealth and mental health provides a four step process, innovative family enterprises can utilize in mitigating financial and emotional stresses from a host...
The field of mental health has an esteemed tradition of providing culturally competent care to human beings who live in the world as minorities. Historically, these minorities exist in positions of powerlessness relative to other people. Dr. Hokemeyer's work in the realm of mental and...
Wealth and Kids: When and how to have the conversation. One of the most common questions I get from concerned parents in my role as a family therapist is 'how do I talk to my kid's about our money?' While lots of family governance professionals have...
In this article for Parade Magazine, picked up by Yahoo and endorsed by the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Paul Hokemeyer, founder of Drayson Mews discusses the popular construct of sober curious. What does the term “sober curious” mean? Family and addictions therapist Dr. Paul Hokemeyer, PhD, author of Fragile Power,...
The success of HBO's hit show Succession is due in large measure to the public's obsession with people of wealth and power. Audience members are drawn into the Roy family drama because they simultaneously resent and envy what they think unlimited amounts of money can...
One of the many things I appreciate about being a therapist is how my work involves helping patients develop the capacity to sit with what seem like contradictory realities. So we can be discouraged about the new round of COVID while at the same time,...