I recently acquired this painting by Kurt Knobelsdorf for my personal collection. In it, two women of color stand close together in front of a modest building. Their faces are indistinct, but their bodies lean into one another in a way that feels both tender...
On the postbox outside the grocery store in my hometown of Telluride, Colorado, a weathered sticker reads “Eat the Rich.” It’s a quiet provocation that captures a louder cultural mood—one that questions the moral and psychological costs of extreme wealth in an age of widening...
In this article, Dr. Paul Hokemeyer discusses his experience at a Media and Medicine program at one of America's most revered Ivy League medical schools....
In this article, which appears in The International Family Offices Journal, Dr. Paul Hokemeyer applies the construct of to enable wealth advisors and clinicians who work with clients and patients of wealth (PoW) to provide exceptional care and service to the human beings they are...
Mental Health and Wealth: Addressing difficult family issues through cultural competence and clinical excellence. This article first appeared as a chapter in the nonfiction book, Raising the Boabab. Edited by Tsitsi Mutendi (2024) Dr. Paul Hokemeyer Key words: Wealth, UHNW, mental health, narcissism, author, family therapist, addiction...
Integrating our identities into a healthy self-concept is central to our mental health and relational well-being. This can be challenging for patients of wealth due to the dissonance between how they view themselves and how they are viewed by others. In the following article, published June 16,...
This article was originally published March / April 2025 Volume 24, No. 2 in Family Therapy Magazine. FEATURES Family Therapy for Clients of Wealth: Extending Culturally Competent Care Through a Systemic Lens Paul Hokemeyer, JD, PhD That we are living in volatile times is not new news. The last...
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...