Reader’s Question:

Ok, fine. So I am not the most spender in Lakewood, Washington. I admit I’ve been carefree in my spending in the past but now I need to have it corrected. I’ve heard of credit counseling, what is this?

Jhoanna

Lakewood, WA

Hello, Jhoanna! Don’t be too hard on yourself, may people have fallen into this trap and have recovered well, and credit counseling has helped them in the journey. Credit counseling (as the name implies) is just like any counseling services. In credit counseling, there will be professionals who will look at your expenses, income and assets. Together with you – and it is imperative that you will be open-minded to the idea of scrutinizing your finances – they will assess your current financial standing and help you come up with a plan that will help you regain control of your current situation.

There will be many credit counseling agencies in Lakewood, Washington, Jhoanna, some of them may even be non-government organizations (NGOs) whose advocacy is to help Americans have liberation from credit and stay liberated; you need to choose well, though, Jhoanna. If a credit counseling group from Lakewood, Washington offers you credit counseling but is asking a steep sum for it, then you might just end up having a worse financial situation than when you first approached them. Ask around for referrals, Jhoanna - like I said, you are not the first person to have undergone this crisis, and there will always be a friend of a friend of a friend who knew of a friend who underwent credit counseling.

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