1 HOUR FREE TRAINING
Parenting Teens When You
Have Trauma
How to stay grounded, connected, and boundaried when attitude, lying, phones, friends, shutdowns, or pushback activate your nervous system.
Thursday, October 1 at
9 a.m. PT / 12 p.m. ET
1 hour | Live on Zoom
with Sari Rose Barron, LMFT
Can't attend live?
Register and we'll send you the replay.
Attend live and get a special bonus:
10 Texts to Send When Your Teen Won't Open Up to You
(value $99)
Ready-to-use texts that open the door to connection without interrogating, pressuring, or pushing your teen further away.
Parenting teens is hard. Parenting teens when you are carrying trauma is another level.
Your teen rolls their eyes, shuts down, lies, pushes back, refuses to put down their phone, starts moving away from you and towards friends (who you may or may not like) or makes a choice that scares you.
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And suddenly, it isn't just about what they're doing.​ Your nervous system is in the moment too.
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You come in hot, over-explain, or soften a boundary just to make the intensity stop.
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Then you wonder:
Was I too hard? Too soft? Did I make it worse? What am I actually supposed to do here?
And here's the thing...
YOU AREN'T SUPPOSED TO JUST KNOW WHAT TO DO.
I've spent more than 15 years as a trauma therapist studying, learning, teaching and work with parents, tweens, and teens. As a parent with trauma myself, I still have moments when I'm triggered and have to pull from my therapist brain to navigate all the roller-coaster nuances of raising a teen.
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Most parenting advice is built as if you can calmly access it in the moment. But trauma doesn't always work that way.
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When your nervous system goes offline, even strategies you already know, like pausing and taking a breath, can become incredibly difficult to use.
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You don't need another random parenting tip. You need a therapist-informed way to understand what's happening with your teen, what's getting activated in you, what the parenting moment actually needs from you, and what to do next.
In this free workshop,
we'll cover:
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Why the parenting strategies you already know can become impossible to access when your nervous system is activated
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How to separate what's getting activated in you from what's actually happening with your teen
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What to do when you're frozen or in fight-or-flight, but your teen is lying, shutting down, pushing a boundary, or making a choice that scares you
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How to hold boundaries while protecting the connection you're trying so hard to build
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How to build a relationship where your teen moves toward you instead of away from you in tough moments
Because the goal isn't to avoid conflict so you can feel close.
The goal is to build the kind of closeness that can handle conflict.
This is for you if...
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Your teen's attitude can send you from zero to 100 or into complete shutdown
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Lying, phones, social media, friends, risky choices, boundary-pushing, or your teen shutting down feel overwhelming and anxiety-provoking
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You find yourself yelling, over-explaining, shutting down, giving in, or replaying conversations for hours afterward
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You're scared that holding a boundary will turn into a fight or push your child away
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You want your teen to come to you with the hard stuff, but you're not sure how to build that kind of relationship
You do not have to eliminate your triggers or heal perfectly before you can parent differently.
Your live-attendance bonus
10 Texts to Send When Your Teen
Won't Open Up to You
Ready-to-use texts that open the door to connection without interrogating, pressuring, or pushing your teen further away.
You'll get texts for:
When you can tell something is wrong
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When they keep saying, "I'm fine"
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After a fight or rupture
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When you want to leave the door open for communication without pushing or engulfing
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When there has been distance for a while and you want to reconnect
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Stay live until the end to receive the bonus.
Hi, I'm Sari.
I’m Sari Rose Barron, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, EMDR-certified therapist, and EMDRIA-approved consultant with more than 15 years of clinical experience, founder of SoCal Individual, Family, & Trauma Therapy, and a mom of two in this alongside you.
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I specialize in trauma, attachment, parenting, adolescents, and family dynamics, and I’ve worked with thousands of kids, teens, parents, and families.
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I also know what it is to parent with trauma. To have a nervous system that scans for danger, braces for loss, and becomes activated by moments other people may see as “normal parenting stuff.”
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Sometimes what may be developmentally normal for your child can still be deeply triggering for you. That doesn’t mean you’re failing, and it doesn’t mean there’s nothing to address with your child.​
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I'm here to make therapist-informed support more accessible to parents with trauma because so many parenting resources don't understand the nuances of what we need, especially during the tween and teen years, when the stakes feel so high and our kids are moving closer to independence.
