PDA Parenting Support
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Parents/Caregivers and Neurodivergent Families
Transform your understanding and connection with your child through this intensive support program specific to the needs of PDA/ADHD/Autism.
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Group Offerings for Parents of Children ages 5-12, including those who are considering if the PDA lens fits for their child and who already use this lens and want to strengthen their PDA visibility.
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Group Offerings for Parents of Teens ages 13-18 including those who are considering if the PDA lens fits for their teen and who already use this lens and want to strengthen their PDA visibility.
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Group Offerings for Parents of Young Adults/Adults, including those who are considering if the PDA lens fits and for those who already use this lens and want to strengthen their PDA visibility.
Most PDA advice stops at childhood. Your support didn't, and you needed it to be easier by now.
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Group Offerings for Adoptive Parents and Caregivers, including those who are considering if the PDA lens fits and for those who already use this lens and want to strengthen their PDA visibility.
Specific to the attachment, grief/loss, and identity needs of your family.
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Need more individualized support?
One on one consultation, as well as individual and family therapy services are available.
A Free Resource for Parents
5 Demands Parents Carry for their PDA Child/Teen
...and the support needed to carry them.
Lowering demands for your child often means carrying more yourself. This guide traces five of those demands, and where the demands can be moved to support your family. Enter your email to receive the guide.
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Taken from your child, because their nervous system reads it as a threat.
Carried by you, because someone had to.
Where it can go instead, so the pressure eases for everyone.
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Every demand you move is one less you carry, and starting where you can is how you move in the direction of relief.
When the structures around your family start carrying their share, your child has more room to feel safe, and so do you. That's where the relationship has space to grow.
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The PDA Parenting Support Group is a space to keep having this conversation, alongside parents who understand without needing it explained.
Over eight virtual gatherings, we explore the nervous system beneath the behavior, school advocacy, family and community support, and the demands you’ve been expected to carry.
PDA Parenting Groups
Consequences, sticker charts, consistency: when the usual tools make things worse, a different lens is needed
Alongside other parents who ‘just get it’, we see beneath the behavior, better understanding your child’s nervous system. Possibilities begin to multiply.
Tiptoeing through mornings, bracing for bedtime: this is what carrying invisible needs feels like.
In community, we clear a path forward that’s realistic, strategic, and tailored to your families needs.
You've lowered the demands and it still isn't working. There is a reason, and it isn't you
Change requires clearly looking at the bigger structures your family is navigating, working with the demands placed in every environment.
Why the Usual Advice Falls Short
Most parenting advice assumes the fix is more structure, firmer boundaries, or better consistency... and when none of that works, it's easy to conclude the problem is you, or your child.
For individuals with a PDA profile, everyday expectations can register as a threat to autonomy and safety. The harder a demand is held, the harder the nervous system pushes back. Lowering demands in a household helps, and this approach on it’s own often isn't enough.
Real transformation comes from understanding what your child’s behavior is communicating, what continues to deplete them, and what your own nervous system is carrying alongside theirs.
For Parents of Young Adults:
When your parenting role continues into their adulthood in a way you never imagined…
The PDA conversation is full of advice for parents of five-year-olds. Very little of it is for parents of twenty-five-year-olds.
Your child grew up, the advice didn't grow with them.
That 18 year milestone came and went. While others celebrate their child’s independence, you wonder if it will ever happen for yours.
Parenting an adult means you can't make the decisions anymore, and you can't stop caring about them either.
For Adoptive Parents:
Adoptive Parenting Support that doesn’t leave you feeling inadequate…
You've made real efforts to connect your child with others who share their story: adoptee groups, mentors, families like yours. They don't want to talk about adoption with you, or with their peers.
In your interracial family, you know conversations about race matter. Your child changes the subject, leaves the room, or shuts down the moment it comes up.
They tell you they don't care that they're adopted. And yet there are explosions or withdrawal that seem to come from nowhere; you're left asking what you’re not doing right.
Next Offering October 19th 2026, 8pm EST
Weekday Offerings Beginning in November
PDA Parenting Support Groups
A neurodiversity-affirming space to come together with parents navigating similar parenting journeys, build understanding of behavior, demand avoidance and PDA, and strengthen parent & caring relationships … shifting from simply surviving to thriving in your family.
You Belong With Us if You’re Reading this and:
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You've tried the strategies you were told were necessary, and your child shrinks, blows up, or withdraws further.
You've started lowering demands, and now you're carrying new worries about how your child will make it in the world as it is.
You've felt isolated, blamed, or disbelieved by the people and systems around your family.
Most PDA parenting advice is written for young children. You're supporting an adult child who needs more than you anticipated, and you needed things to be easier by now.
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Group Structure:
Sessions · 8 Group Gatherings
Virtual, Weekly
Length · 75 minutes
Group · 4–10 parents per group
Structure
Education and Information based on PDA clinical training and experience,
Process and Support Oriented
Embodied activities offered as desired for regulation
Next Offering Begins October 19, 2026 · 8pm ET
Daytime offerings coming in November
Investment:
$325 for 8 groups ($40/group)
One sliding scale space available per group
In a world built for families like ours, support like this would be free. Until then, this group is designed to make clinical depth more reachable. Each gathering is led by a licensed trauma and attachment therapist who is also a PDA parent, at a fraction of the cost of individual therapy.
One sliding scale space is held in every group.
The 8 Group Gatherings…
Group members who register will have an opportunity to select among the following topics over the course of the group:
Recognizing PDA in Children? Is My Child Autistic?
PDA Understanding to Create Change: Trauma neurobiology and neurodivergent traits
ADHD Traits: Understanding your Child's Interest Led Brain
Autistic Traits: Maximizing your Child's Brain Strengths and Questioning "Normal"
Do I Need a Diagnosis: PDA vs. ODD, CPTSD & Autism
OCD and Anxiety
Supporting Safe Relationships: Building trust in parent-child relationships, Sibling Challenges and Support
School Avoidance: Self-led learners, School structures, Advocating for your Child's Inclusion
School Accommodations: Navigating 504, IEPs and Staff Relationships
Complex Identities: My Child's Experience of PDA & Race, Culture, Gender, Ableism
Parental Worries & Fears: Envisioning our Children's Future
Screens & "Addictive" Behaviors:
Competing Family Needs: Helping Your Neurodivergent Family Thrive
Enhancing Felt Safety at Home: Low Demand Parenting and Declarative Language
Involving the Family and Community: systems and community approach to support PDA children
Intersections of Adoption and PDA: Adoption grief/loss and neurodivergent communication and support for children's adoption related needs
PDA Parenting Support Groups
