Alyson Greene May, M.Ed. (she/her/hers)

Alyson is a YNAB Certified Coach. She offers financial coaching for therapists and healers (and their clients), as well as for folks who are on a healing path. She also offers financial wellbeing classes, nature-based ceremony and adventures, and financial-astrology readings.

A long-time educator, Alyson’s life forever changed the day she met YNAB in May 2017! She and her then-fiancé were dreaming of a completely debt-free wedding, which, with the help of their new YNAB budget (and the support of very creative friends), they were able to accomplish. And that was only the beginning!

Since 2017, YNAB has been a true and trusted ally for their relationship—through both smooth seas and stormy waters—guiding their money decisions and bringing much clarity and many achieved goals (tiny to large), quite a bit of delight, and also some humor to their married life. 💕

Alyson is honored to be a Certified YNAB Coach now supporting others in finding greater ease and well-being in their daily financial lives.

For 5 years (just prior to earning her YNAB coaching certification), Alyson worked with a team of Certified Financial Planners (CFP®). As Operations Manager, she worked alongside her CFP colleagues in client service, deepening her knowledge (and absorbing much wisdom) in the areas of client support and coaching, entrepreneurship, and holistic financial planning. She also developed processes and produced weekly financial-educational content for the firm’s every-week-like-clockwork newsletter and blog. 

Alyson holds a Masters of Education (M.Ed.) in environmental education (emphasis in inspiring adults to deepen their connections with the natural world via the creative arts) from Western Washington University and a B.A. in physical geography from U.C. Davis. She has also completed hundreds of hours of training—and thousands of hours of practice—in interpersonal and intrapersonal skills (including group facilitation, education, meditation, and a variety of healing modalities).

More personally, Alyson’s work in personal finance—alongside her dedication to contemplative and transformative practices—has supported her in her own money-healing journey over the last 12+ years, both in unraveling ancestral money traumas that carried forward through generations and in creating new, healthier, and more generative (and ever-evolving!) relationships with both money and with the beloved Taurean/Venusian/Yin realms of deep nourishment, resourcing/resilience, and embodied presence, which interweave with our personal finances . . . even if only in ways subtle, or seemingly hidden from view . . . like a shimmering spring bubbling up in the deep wilds. 💗

Alyson is based in Bellingham, Washington, along the edge of the Salish Sea, on the ancestral homelands of the Coast Salish Peoples. Gratitude and respect to the Lummi Nation and Nooksack Tribe, who have tended these lands and waterways from time immemorial. 🙏

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