Great teachers never stop learning

Group Training | Consultation | Keynote Speaker

Finding new ways to serve ourselves and the adolescents we care for.

Group Training & Workshops

Even with skilled and capable people on your team, it’s not uncommon to battle burnout, struggle to meet the unique needs of the adolescents in the program, or to contend with frustrating dynamics between teens and the adults in their lives. Together we’ll uncover the issues facing your organization and implement new systems rooted in the unique lens of the adolescent experience. 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.

    • What IS Adolescence?!?

    • The Unique and Challenging Needs of Adolescents

    • What is Pathology and What is Normal Development in Teens

    • Connecting Authentically (and Appropriately) with Teenagers

    • Becoming a Trauma-Informed Service Provider for Teens

    • Vicarious Trauma in Adults Who Work with Teens

Consultation

Working with adolescent populations can be like sitting on top of a magnificent volcano—exciting, lots of energy, and ready to blow at any minute. Adolescents are a world unto themselves. For parent support groups, school staff, nonprofit agency staff, and behavioral health staff who serve teenagers, it is spectacularly rewarding and complex work. We will work together to assess where the strengths and weaknesses are in your program. You’ll receive curated tools to effectively serve your adolescents while providing the support your staff needs to sustain their commitment to this vital work.

    • School district staff

    • Juvenile drug court

    • Nonprofit organizations

    • County service provider network

    • Navigating the pandemic with your teens

    • Personality conflicts

    • Noncompliance from the teens you serve

    • Power struggles

    • Overwhelm and burnout

    • Confusion about the root of the struggles in your program

Keynote Speaker

Most people go into the work of providing services to adolescents because they have felt called to do so. But this field comes with some unique difficulties: burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma. Dr. Barre brings hope and inspiration to these issues by offering concrete actions and suggestions for managing the burden that comes from the adolescent services industry. It’s important to be reminded of why you are showing up to do this work. Dr. Barre uses her deep experience in the field to help others reenergize and dive right back in to this critical work with new tools and a fresh perspective.

    • How Your Work with Adolescents Changes the World

    • Where do We Find Courage to Work with Adolescents

    • How to Address and Prevent Overwhelm in Your Work with Teens

    • Validating Teens: A Communication Superpower

    • From Protecting to Preparing: Getting Teens Ready for Adulthood

    • Adolescents and Respect: Giving and Earning Respect

Get in touch

Reach out to learn how we can work together to make an impact on your organization.

 

What others have to say:

“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 the 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