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Success is Subjective: Helping parents of college students accept that dropping out is okay

Episode 39 — You Don’t Have To Worry About Finding Your Life Passion In Your 20’s — with Vania Matheus

November 24, 2020 Joanna Lilley, MA, NCC Season 1 Episode 39
Success is Subjective: Helping parents of college students accept that dropping out is okay
Episode 39 — You Don’t Have To Worry About Finding Your Life Passion In Your 20’s — with Vania Matheus
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Success is Subjective: Helping parents of college students accept that dropping out is okay
Episode 39 — You Don’t Have To Worry About Finding Your Life Passion In Your 20’s — with Vania Matheus
Nov 24, 2020 Season 1 Episode 39
Joanna Lilley, MA, NCC

College can put this heavy pressure on young adults to have everything figured out right away in their 20’s. The truth is, that things take time to come together for most people. Being 100% sure about your passions and what makes you happy at a young age isn’t necessary, since it will most likely continue to change. Experiences allow everything to come together in a way that you wouldn’t expect, so it’s better not to rush that process. 

Vania Matheus, founder of V. Matheus Therapeutic & Educational Consulting, has acquired multiple degrees in her life as she figured out what she really wanted to do as a career. Each step of her journey wasn’t planned but it all brought her to where she is now, and it couldn’t have been laid out better. One random masters in school counseling led to another masters, which led to something that confluence together so well in her life today. In her fourteen years of practice as a consultant, Vania has helped hundreds of families find appropriate treatment options for their teens and young adults struggling with mental and behavioral health issues. Her experience eventually led her to found V. Matheus Therapeutic & Educational Consulting where she helps families from the beginning of the process through completion and recovery,navigate the challenges young people and their families face. 

On this episode of Success is Subjective, Vania joins Joanna to share her journey as she navigated the expectations she had on herself as a Seventh-day Adventist and how she eventually found herself in the field of Therapeutic and Educational Consulting. Vania shares the importance of allowing yourself to experience different things and say yes to opportunities, rather than be caught up in finding the perfect path. Listen in for insight how Vania’s experience working in a variety of therapeutic settings as she navigated college, led her to start her own program where she thrives and brings young adults and their families on the path to a thriving life too.

What You Will Learn

  • How Vania was raised and the expectations in her culture
  • What post-secondary options look like for a Seventh-day Adventist 
  • What led Vania to began her master’s degree in school counseling
  • What led Vania to go back to get another master’s degree this time in Marriage and Family Therapy
  • How Vania discovered the world of Wilderness Therapy
  • How it’s okay to switch your career path, even more than once
  • How Vania’s clinical expertise background has been a blessing in what she does now
  • How many families (and therapists) still don’t know that Therapeutic Consultants exist
  • The importance of taking care of yourself and prioritizing your well being
  • It’s perfectly okay for your path to look different from everyone else’s
  • Vania’s advice to parents to not enable your young adult and allow them to put in the work

Connect with Vania Matheus

Connect with Joanna Lilley  

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College can put this heavy pressure on young adults to have everything figured out right away in their 20’s. The truth is, that things take time to come together for most people. Being 100% sure about your passions and what makes you happy at a young age isn’t necessary, since it will most likely continue to change. Experiences allow everything to come together in a way that you wouldn’t expect, so it’s better not to rush that process. 

Vania Matheus, founder of V. Matheus Therapeutic & Educational Consulting, has acquired multiple degrees in her life as she figured out what she really wanted to do as a career. Each step of her journey wasn’t planned but it all brought her to where she is now, and it couldn’t have been laid out better. One random masters in school counseling led to another masters, which led to something that confluence together so well in her life today. In her fourteen years of practice as a consultant, Vania has helped hundreds of families find appropriate treatment options for their teens and young adults struggling with mental and behavioral health issues. Her experience eventually led her to found V. Matheus Therapeutic & Educational Consulting where she helps families from the beginning of the process through completion and recovery,navigate the challenges young people and their families face. 

On this episode of Success is Subjective, Vania joins Joanna to share her journey as she navigated the expectations she had on herself as a Seventh-day Adventist and how she eventually found herself in the field of Therapeutic and Educational Consulting. Vania shares the importance of allowing yourself to experience different things and say yes to opportunities, rather than be caught up in finding the perfect path. Listen in for insight how Vania’s experience working in a variety of therapeutic settings as she navigated college, led her to start her own program where she thrives and brings young adults and their families on the path to a thriving life too.

What You Will Learn

  • How Vania was raised and the expectations in her culture
  • What post-secondary options look like for a Seventh-day Adventist 
  • What led Vania to began her master’s degree in school counseling
  • What led Vania to go back to get another master’s degree this time in Marriage and Family Therapy
  • How Vania discovered the world of Wilderness Therapy
  • How it’s okay to switch your career path, even more than once
  • How Vania’s clinical expertise background has been a blessing in what she does now
  • How many families (and therapists) still don’t know that Therapeutic Consultants exist
  • The importance of taking care of yourself and prioritizing your well being
  • It’s perfectly okay for your path to look different from everyone else’s
  • Vania’s advice to parents to not enable your young adult and allow them to put in the work

Connect with Vania Matheus

Connect with Joanna Lilley