Transform the way you
work with adolescents.
Expert consultation and training for non-profits, schools, agencies, and those who serve and care about teenagers.
As an organizational leader, service provider, or caregiver:
Is your school or program suffering under a low, discouraged climate?
Are you fighting to keep your staff from burning out and leaving?
Are you frustrated by the lack of effective resources your team has access to?
Are you battling conflict, intensified acting out, and disconnection between you and the teens you serve and care for?
Are you struggling to equip your staff to address vicarious trauma that may come from working with teens?
Discover creative tools to transform your work with adolescents.
Take a deeper, informed approach to working with adolescents.
Advance your organization's impact to the next level.
When you change the life of a teenager,
you change the world.
At the end of the day, you want to know that your time, effort, and dedication have changed the lives of the teenagers you serve for the better. So many who serve adolescents are doing their best but struggle to work with an incomplete set of tools. Today’s systems, curricula, and practices have merit, but many of them don’t equip us to develop the relationships, trust, and leadership our adolescents so desperately need.
Our mission is to fill in the gaps in your organization or practice and equip you with the tools you need to succeed, protecting you from burnout while creating a better world for adolescents.
Let’s work
together
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By challenging assumptions, deepening understanding, and providing empowering information to your team of experts, we can equip them and your program with the tools they need to best serve the teens who rely on them.
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Find ways to improve your program and receive curated tools to effectively serve your adolescents while providing the support your staff needs to sustain their commitment to this vital work.
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Dr. Barre uses her extensive experience in the field to help others reenergize and dive back in with new tools and a fresh perspective.
Tools of The Shiftless Wanderer
The process and practice of validation
Compassionate curiosity
Love and courage as antidotes to fear
Understanding the essential nature of Adolescence 
Hear from a former Navy Chief about how she used the four tools of The Shiftless Wanderer to navigate the challenges of the pandemic with her teen.
INTERVIEWFrom the blog
About Dr. Barre
Dr. Robin Barre has taught middle school in the public education system, alternative high school for vulnerable unhoused urban youths, middle and high school homeschool students, and in university, and presented at conferences internationally. Dr. Barre earned her MA degrees in counseling and depth psychology, as well as her PhD in depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is a Level 2 trained certified Internal Family Systems therapist and consultant. Working primarily with survivors of trauma, she is dedicated to helping parents, caregivers, organizations improve the lives of the adolescents they serve.