She is Certified Financial PlannerTM professional with training in marriage and family therapy. As a researcher and teacher of financial therapy, Sonya explores the role of money in couple relationships, families, and for the individual. Britt-Lutter’s research on money arguments and their influence on relationship satisfaction and divorce and has been referenced in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Kiplinger’s, and Yahoo! Finance to name a few. She and co-authors won the best theoretical paper award at the 2016 Financial Planning Association national meeting with a paper titled, Tightwads & Spenders: Predicting Financial Conflict in Couple Relationships, and in 2017 with The Financial Implications of Divorce. Her developmental work in the emerging field of financial therapy is summarized in Financial Therapy: Theory, Research, and Practice with co-editors Drs. Brad Klontz and Kristy Archuleta.