Healing Through a Child's Mental Health Diagnosis

Season 3 is all about healing... In this episode, we talk to parents about what happens after their child is assessed and receives a mental health diagnosis (at any age).
About our Guest
Amanda Armbruster (www.takeabreak...) is a Licensed Professional Counselor and the Founder of Take a Break Tots. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master’s of Education in Counseling from the University of Houston. For the last decade, Amanda has worked with young children and their families as a teacher, graduate student, LPC and now in her own home as a wife and mom of two.
Amanda started Take a Break Tots to bring information about child development, behavior, discipline, and social-emotional intervention from the clinical world to the average household and classroom.
Learn more about Take a Break Tots (www.takeabreak...) here.
Meet our Host, Anna Crain, LMSW
Anna Crain is a Licensed Master of Social Work and Nick Finnegan Counseling Center's, Outreach Counselor. Anna holds a bachelor’s degree from Texas Christian University (TCU) and a master’s degree in social work from the University of Southern California (USC).
She has worked in a variety of settings spending majority of her time serving as a non-profit administrator, school administrator and school social worker. She has had the opportunity to help clients work through several challenges such as anxiety, grief and loss, ADHD, ASD, life-stressors and trauma both individually and through groups.
Anna currently works with children, families and some young adults, through one-on-one counseling and also speaks to groups throughout the Houston area, through outreach talks.
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Extra special thanks the people who made this project possible:
• Our wonderful Season 3 guest experts
• Our production team at 3Wire Creative
• Our editor, Jacel Dickson
• and the amazing leadership team and supporters at Nick Finnegan Counseling Center in Houston, TX.
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Until next time...