Hi, guys, welcome back to Preview Lions podcast. This is Sarah. I'm back with you. And we're going to have a fun

conversation today. I'm super excited to introduce you to Madison. She is a child therapist plus a therapist.

But most importantly, she is going to help us deep dive into a world that I think a lot

of us like me go, okay, what is a child therapist?

Should my child see a child therapist?

And what mixed emotions that probably brings up for you and your child?

So Madison, welcome to the privileged podcast.

Sarah, thank you so much for having me. I am honored to be a part of this amazing podcast,

and I'm so excited to talk about all things, kiddos. But yeah, as Sarah said, I'm a therapist,

but I mostly work as a child therapist. And so I work mostly with kiddos from ages 3 to 18.

So have quite the variety, but my heart is really with working with kids like 3 to 12.

And so, yeah, I'm so excited to talk about all things, kiddos and child therapy.

I love that. So I put you into this because I feel like, you know, I was a nurse from many moons ago before I did this. And I knew pretty off. I was like, I don't want to do Peds. Like, that's not my thing. So what brought you to child therapy? I find it so interesting what brings people to certain like, you know, their jobs in life. Sure, sure yeah it kind of just stumbled into my hands i

for a long time i knew i wanted to be a therapist but wasn't really sure what population for a while

and to be honest with you i started in college i started nannying and working with two sweet little

boys and i think i really just sparked my interest and working with two sweet little boys. And I think I really just

sparked my interest in working with kiddos and just like watching them grow over the years

and watching their brain develop and all the things. And so I started in some of my internships

in college. I got to work alongside parents and children. And from there on, I was just like, this is where

I'm meant to be. I feel like I really work well with children and that I can often find

myself just getting down on their level and just like having conversation with them. And

one thing we'll talk about today a lot is we use play a lot.

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