At Lantern Financial, we take pride in our unique mission to help young professional individuals, couples, and young families reach their goals and dreams through our values-based financial planning and develop the skills necessary for understanding and communication through our nationally acclaimed financial counseling services.


Contact us today - we look forward to helping you to Shine Brighter!

Take a moment to explore our site and check out our specialties:

• Comprehensive, fee-only, financial planning services


• Innovative, nationally acclaimed financial counseling services


• Success-inspiring talks we can deliver to your group, organization or conference.

Lantern Financial Presents: Fun, interactive Premarital Counseling Workshops!

Are you engaged or recently married?

50% of marriages end in divorce, the #1 cited reason for divorce is financial conflict.

We can help prepare you for your financial future!

Over the course of 6 weeks, the Premarital Financial Counseling workshop will teach couples valuable skills to communicate lovingly and effectively for the success of their Financial Romance. The workshop includes extensive activities and information to guide you through a variety of topics important to financial relationships such as:

* Exploring each of your Financial Ancestries and Financial Personalities.
* Important discussions on decision making, risk tolerance and how/when to merge your money.
* Building strong financial communication skills, empathy and understanding for money.

Sessions will be held Wednesday evenings from 6pm-8pm.
The next round of workshops begins January 8, 2013!

Click HERE to learn more!

Nobody likes unpleasant surprises, but when Allison Brooke Eastman's fiancé found out four months ago just how high her student loan debt was, he had a particularly strong reaction: he broke off the engagement within three days.

Ms. Eastman said she had told him early on in their relationship that she had over $100,000 of debt... it was closer to $170,000...

Click here to find out what Lantern President, Lisa J.B. Peterson, CFP(R) has to say about how debt can impact a relationship, in this recent New York Times article.

What do you think? When would you reveal a mountain of debt to a potential marriage partner? Is there an amount of debt that renders you unmarryable?