Andrea Alvarez is a Licensed Master Social Worker and Certified Financial Social Worker with a focus in working with families, children, and case management.
Prior to entering the social work field, Andrea worked for many years in the healthcare field spending time working with families experiencing personal medical challenges and decided to change her career path to work with families in a greater and more impactful capacity. Over the past five years, Andrea has had extensive and direct experience working with our military veterans and their families to help overcome financial challenges and barriers. Her training and real world application of financial social work helps her clients to explore their emotional relationships with money, put together targeted action plans, assists with basic budgeting practices, and educates individuals about financial literacy concepts, with the intention of allowing her clients to feel empowered and confident about their financial outlook moving forward.
Andrea was born in New York but considers Atlanta to be home. She is a proud mom of a college student, lover of music, and passionate about social justice issues. She received her undergraduate degree in human services and graduate degree in social work, both from from Kennesaw State University in 2016. She is looking forward widening the availability of this specialized focus of financial social work to those in need within her own community.
*****Andrea is currently accepting self-pay clients only at this time *****