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Boundaries with Integrity: Fundamentals of Boundary Setting for Human Service Providers
Learn how to recognize, set, and maintain healthy boundaries in both personal and professional life. Explore practical tools, emotional regulation techniques, and the inner dynamics that shape your boundary patterns.
Stronger relationships, from a single home to a whole community.
So much of what breaks down in families, classrooms, and organizations is caused by the same thing: people who do not feel seen, heard, or understood. The Shiftless Wanderer exists to address that. We give people practical, trauma-informed tools for communication, connection, and repair, through courses, guides, workshops, and consultation for individuals and families, and the people and organizations that serve them.
Our roots are in the skill of validation and navigating adolescence, the most transformative crossing we all make into adulthood. The work now extends to anyone in relationship–with another person or with themselves. When we learn to understand each other and our self, every relationship grows stronger, from a single home to a whole community.
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Relationships permeate every facet of life, both professionally and personally. We have something for everyone.
FROM THE COMMUNITY
"I entered Robin’s validation course feeling like a 'fish out of water' since I don’t work in a traditional therapeutic field. However, I walked away with far more than I bargained for. Robin’s insights into the long-term effects of lacking validation helped me identify a 'missing feeling' I’ve carried my whole life. More importantly, she articulated the validation process as a tangible skill—one I realized I already possessed but hadn’t fully harnessed. Since learning her framework, I have used these steps daily to strengthen my personal relationships and better engage with underserved communities in my professional revitalization work. The impact has been profound and entirely positive.”
Shane Farthing | Community, Nonprofit & Economic Development Leader
FROM THE COMMUNITY
"Dr. Robin Barre is the foremost expert in adolescent psychology. As a psychologist, her applied research integrates life as a therapist, a teacher, a parent, a poet, a soul-seeker. Her experiences as a scholar and educator are not isolated from the real world. Instead, Robin’s intuitive, therapeutic work lives in day-to-day moments of personal transcendence, as she provides light and meaning for her clients’ pathway through challenging times of emotional chaos and psychological duress. As an advocate for the adolescent in all of us, she understands the forgotten language of this part of life, those bridge years in between childhood and in becoming an adult, and provides guidance into how to reclaim the exiled self. Working with Dr. Barre is an initiation into remembering the many blessings of one’s heart, soul, body and mind."
Brenda Littleton | Jungian Coach, Retired Professor of Graduate Studies in Education, Marriage Family Therapist
FROM THE COMMUNITY
“I am extremely grateful to be part of a consultation group facilitated by Robin. She has skillfully created a warm, generative process and container for us to explore whatever is arising in our work - both dynamics with clients and within ourselves. She has a way of inviting our wisdom into the circle as well as sharing her own. We have developed a deep connection and trust in one another. I feel empowered and courageous knowing that this group is there for me. Each session leaves me with a sense of the importance of the work we are doing collectively in the world. It is a treasure in my life and development as an IFS practitioner.”
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