Charmill Vega, LMFT

Charmill D. Vega, M.S. LMFT has been a psychotherapist for the past 12 years. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with her Bachelor’s in Psychology and a Minor in Applied Developmental Psychology. She then furthered her studies at California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA), where she earned an M.S. in Counseling, with emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy, School-Based Family Counseling and Career Counseling. During her pursuit of her higher education, Ms. Vega found her niche in working with foster and probation youth who were housed in group-home settings. Ms. Vega provided in-home care for youth ages 13-19 years of age, and has worked with teen boys, in a pregnant-teen facility, and in an all girls facility in Los Angeles and Pasadena, CA for over 10 years.

Ms. Vega continued her work experience after graduate school by working in private-practice settings with Doctoral level Psychologists and other licensed mental health providers. She has worked in Church settings a primary therapist and have counseled numerous individuals in a Christian faith-based context. After working in an in-patient eating-disordered facility for a few months, she was then promoted to work in the intensive-outpatient department, which she worked for 18 months. She then went on to gain experience at a Substance Abuse and Alcohol Rehabilitation facility in Los Angeles, where her hours for licensure culminated.

Ms. Vega has founded and launched non-profit organizations and businesses centered around parenting education, faith, mental health and advocating for reduction of Sexual Assault, Child Abuse, Child Trafficking, Domestic Violence and Increasing Mental Health Awareness to reduce Death by Suicide. She is a keynote speaker and has spoken at Black History Celebrations on the Cause for Justice, as well as at Suicide Symposiums on How Parenting Styles can be a Protective Factor against Suicide. Last, Charmill trains graduate school trainees at in-service trainings as well as through weekly clinical supervision.

She is passionate about bridging the gap between the behavioral health issues that youth display within school settings and their predisposed environments at home. Last, finding the dissonance between faith-based belief systems and mental health is a passion she continues to research daily.

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