10. Therapist and Mom; Finding the Balance with Andrea Vargas, LMHC

Today on the ‘Licensed Psychologist, Now What?’ podcast I am delighted to have a former guest from ‘The Beyond Resilience Life’ podcast and colleague, Andrea Vargas, LMHC and Registered Play Therapist (RPT-S).

Andrea’s expertise is on people whose frontal lobe is not fully developed yet (as she describes it). Her patient base is kids ranging from 3 yrs old to early ’20s. She balances her life between her family (husband and 2 kids) and her private practice, and today she’s here to share with us how she balances it all! Andrea enjoys working with kids and since the beginning of her career as she began to discover her path she knew children were the audience she wanted to help. From personal experiences with therapy to being exposed to books and movies that portrayed what children go through in real life, it became clear to her that what fulfilled her professionally was to be able to enter a child’s world through play in a way that supports them mentally. Her mission also includes helping parents who are trying to help their kids succeed and flourish by coming into their own in the best way possible.

As she embarks on to the next step in her journey where she is homeschooling her kids, she acknowledges how challenging this can be besides parenting, but she has learned to tap into the resources her community offers and believes that the ultimate goal for every person is to be able to find balance. To figure it out one day at a time.

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