Transform the way you
work with adolescents.
Whether you're leading a team or walking alongside youth, we offer expert training, tools, and evidence-based strategies to help you foster sustainable, compassionate systems of care.
This is where sustainable adolescent care begins.
Supporting young people is powerful, purpose-driven work. When done with care and intention, it has the potential to change lives—ours included. But even the most committed professionals need support to keep going.
We help organizations, practitioners, educators, and leaders reconnect with what brought them to this work in the first place by offering tools, strategies, and reflection that build capacity and resilience. Our approach is rooted in trauma-informed care, relational neuroscience, and the belief that transformation starts from within.
Here’s what we can help you shift:
Burnout from constant emotional labor and high-stress environments
Disconnection between staff, students, and leadership
Reactive systems that leave no space for repair or reflection
Turnover from overwhelmed teams and under-supported individuals
A culture of urgency that undermines trauma-informed values
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.
Expert guidance for professionals serving adolescents
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 3 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.