Ana Barend is a former professional surfer, world-class competitor, two-time Brazilian champion, World Surf League chaplain, and is a wife, homeschooling mother, and doctoral student in Counselor Education and Supervision at Liberty University.  She joins Robert and Jeff to tell her story as a world-touring professional athlete and pioneer of women's professional surfing in Brazil.  She shares how her own counseling education slowly revealed long-standing struggles with self-worth, inferiority, control, and childhood emotional neglect. Ana is learning to find and rest on her identity in Christ.

Ana serves as the 2021-2023 secretary of Liberty's Rho Eta Nu Alpha Rho (RENAR) chapter of Chi Sigma Iota, the counseling honor society.

Ana Barend, MA, NCC sees clients in Massachusetts at The Well, and co-owns Little Compton Surf Camp.

Recommended APA citation example: Switala, R. P., & Mazzone, J. (Producers). (2022, May 23). Ep. 39: *Client Voices* - Brazilian women's surf champion turns counselor [Audio podcast episode]. In RENAR Voice. Rho Eta Nu Alpha Rho of Chi Sigma Iota, Liberty University.