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In comparison to other forms of family violence, how mothers understand and interpret their experiences of adolescent-to-parent violence and abuse (APVA) is underexplored, particularly in relation to what it means for them at the emotional and individual level, and how this impacts their sense of self, and their mothering and professional identities. This brief research report uses an interpretive phenomenological approach utilising hermeneutics to explore how six mothers made-meaning of their lives and identity when their parenting journey was disrupted by APVA. Help-seeking behaviours were often met with denial, avoidance, and parent-blame from professionals, unless they were familiar with the mother through her professional identity first. Neurodivergences of the adolescents were reported, including mental illness, autism, pathological demand avoidance, and foetal alcohol spectrum disorder. and as no mother reported successful engagement with social care, youth justice, or mental health services when help-seeking, they needed to reimagine their parenting role, or hit crisis, before accessing appropriate support. 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