Sep 15, 2026 · 37 min · 12 segments
Insights from a Child Life Specialist Supporting Families and Healthcare Teams: In this episode, Becca Schuetz shares her journey as a Child Life Specialist, discussing her diverse roles in hospitals…
Becca SchuetzGuestJulieHostAbsolutely.
And I love specifically with you because now Atlanta has become our first sponsored city outside of Texas.
Which means that now, Becca, you are able to meet with Wonders and Worries families 2 to 18 in person in Atlanta to be able to help provide that support to them in a way that's maybe more hands-on with the younger population and giving them that developmental need for tactile response and play and really being that community local support for that family.
benefits of what I love that we are able to provide here in Atlanta now is this in-person, face-to-face interactions that I think sometimes children are really looking for, especially the younger age group.
So I think the children that are unable to really engage and go to a therapeutic place virtually, we're now able to meet with them in person.
I also see this makes a really big positive impact for some of our kids that may possibly be on the spectrum or have ADHD.
And then we can also use these different tools that are fun, like you were talking about before, the tactile pieces and really hone in on what a child sees as their strengths and use that in the sessions to make them match perfectly to what they have going on.
So I think it's opened a lot of doors for the families in the Atlanta community, and that's the goal, right?
Absolutely.
Because of your three roles that you're kind of juggling right now, you've got your inpatient support, or I guess outpatient support at the Proton Center.
That's for adults and pediatric patients.
And typically more of a traditional child life role where you're doing lots of procedural prep.
Am I right in assuming that it's, yes, okay.
So more of that typical what you would see in an in-house child life pediatric environment.
And then you have your private practice, which I'll let you share about here in a moment.
And then you also have these Wonders and Worries families that you are supporting and contracting with to be able to provide support
So you're kind of straddling this world of pediatrics where I think that our professionals that might be listening to the podcast kind of think of as more traditional child life.
But then there's this whole other population that you're serving.
What similarities do you see between those two and what differences do you see?
Absolutely.
And I love specifically with you because now Atlanta has become our first sponsored city outside of Texas.
Which means that now, Becca, you are able to meet with Wonders and Worries families 2 to 18 in person in Atlanta to be able to help provide that support to them in a way that's maybe more hands-on with the younger population and giving them that developmental need for tactile response and play and really being that community local support for that family.
benefits of what I love that we are able to provide here in Atlanta now is this in-person, face-to-face interactions that I think sometimes children are really looking for, especially the younger age group.
So I think the children that are unable to really engage and go to a therapeutic place virtually, we're now able to meet with them in person.
I also see this makes a really big positive impact for some of our kids that may possibly be on the spectrum or have ADHD.
And then we can also use these different tools that are fun, like you were talking about before, the tactile pieces and really hone in on what a child sees as their strengths and use that in the sessions to make them match perfectly to what they have going on.
So I think it's opened a lot of doors for the families in the Atlanta community, and that's the goal, right?
Absolutely.
Because of your three roles that you're kind of juggling right now, you've got your inpatient support, or I guess outpatient support at the Proton Center.
That's for adults and pediatric patients.
And typically more of a traditional child life role where you're doing lots of procedural prep.
Am I right in assuming that it's, yes, okay.
So more of that typical what you would see in an in-house child life pediatric environment.
And then you have your private practice, which I'll let you share about here in a moment.
And then you also have these Wonders and Worries families that you are supporting and contracting with to be able to provide support
So you're kind of straddling this world of pediatrics where I think that our professionals that might be listening to the podcast kind of think of as more traditional child life.
But then there's this whole other population that you're serving.
What similarities do you see between those two and what differences do you see?
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