Episode 75 features conversations with a Latina therapist, featuring Araceli Vidales in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month. Listen now!
Araceli Vidales is first-generation Latina licensed Psychotherapist in California, Nevada and New Hampshire who helps her clients balance their career and family life. As a mother, wife, and working professional, she understands the struggle of trying to balance and do it all. She’s here to listen and support you as you get to know you again. In therapy, her approach is to look at you as a person within a larger system that consists of your family and society. She’s EMDR and Trauma-Informed trained and uses various modalities depending on the clients needs, such as CBT, Psychodynamic, and Narrative therapy.
You can follow Araceli on Instagram, TikTok and her website.

This week, we chat about:

• How the conflict in her parents relationship affected her childhood
• When she realized it was time for her to go to therapy
• Our negative experiences we had with previous therapists
• How and why she decided to become a therapist
• Why it’s imperative to prioritize taking care of our mental health
• Tools and resources to strengthen our mental health
• Why there’s a stigma in the Latino community around mental health awareness
• The difference between guilt & shame
• And more!

This was Araceli's first ever podcast interview and she brought SO MANY GEMS💎Thank you to Araceli for sharing her knowledge & wisdom with my audience and for helping out with raising awareness around the importance of taking care of our mental health!💚

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