The Neuroscience of Teenage Trauma with Michael Carroll
Why are traditional parenting methods and standard therapies failing today’s teenagers? In this episode of Finding New Waters, host B.Reeves sits down with Michael Carroll, Director of Outreach at Family First Adolescent Services, to decode the neurological roots of adolescent trauma, severe behavioral dysregulation, and neurodivergence.
Michael reveals how a teenager’s brain in survival mode stops processing executive decisions, why modern social dynamics (including cyber blackmail) are triggering acute nervous system responses, and how specialized clinical approaches like polyvagal theory…
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