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Services
PDA Coaching & Therapy Topics
What makes parenting a child with PDA so incredibly challenging, is the fact that the entire society looks at people through a behavioural lens. Your parents probably raised you through using behavioural strategies. Any advice you receive from medical professionals is to use behavioural strategies. On television, in books and stories; all children are taught through using behavioural strategies. But as you probably already know, for PDA kids, this doesn't work. It actually makes things worse.
To help children with PDA, is to completely change the way you look at their behaviour. And once you understand this, and radically accept this, you can change your approach and meet the child's needs. I can help you achieve this for your family.
Please find below a list of topics that we can look at together:
- PDA & the nervous system
- The PDA lens & radical acceptance
- Masking & other expressions of PDA
- Equalising behaviour
- The importance of trust and safety
- Accommodation tools
- PDA Burnout & trauma
- Risk Mitigation
- Advocating for your family"s needs
- Sibling and (extended) family relationships
- PDA, Autism, ADHD and Giftedness
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PDA Parent Coaching
I want to be able to support you and your family to the best of my abilities. Coaching & counselling sessions are 90 minutes rather than the standard 60 minutes you are probably used to. I need this amount of time to be able to provide you with appropriate support that is helpful and meaningful. You can come to me with any type of challenge in your life as a PDA parent. At the start of each session, we will prioritise your questions to see how I can best support you and to make the best of your time.
The longer sessions are set up in a way that I have enough time to explore your challenges together with you to the depth that I need to make an assessment. I also want to take my time to explore strategies that are suitable for your family. We need to take into account the nervous systems of all your family members when we start thinking about any solutions for the challenges you are facing. Looking at the whole family is more complex, than if you were just looking at yourself as an individual.
You deserve support that actually helps your family long term and that is what I am here to do. After each session, you will walk away with tools and a plan. Some people only need the one session to be able to keep going. You can just book a session whenever you need one. No need to commit on an ongoing basis!
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EMDR Therapy & Counselling Services
To help you overcome any barriers that impact on your ability to make the change you need to support your child, we can utilise EMDR Therapy in combination with counselling.
EMDR Therapy can be used in different ways to strengthen your parenting capacity.
For example, I can offer EMDR Therapy to mend those memories relating to any past traumatic experience of Parenting a PDA child, with the goal to help open up space for you to be able to reconnect with your child again. Or, we might target memories from your own childhood from when your needs weren't met, which could be getting in the way of allowing you to be the parent you want to be.
EMDR Therapy sessions are 90 minutes each. On average it takes between 1-3 sessions per memory to resolve the disturbance and reprocess your past experience. Sometimes reprocessing one memory is enough to take the edge of things. Sometimes we need to process a couple more. It all depends on your individual needs that I will discuss with you as we progress. Please note that we won't be able to reprocess a memory the first time we meet. I need to do a proper assessment and prepare with you to ensure we keep you safe during processing. I will explain all this the first time we meet.
EMDR Therapy can be used in different ways to strengthen your parenting capacity.
For example, I can offer EMDR Therapy to mend those memories relating to any past traumatic experience of Parenting a PDA child, with the goal to help open up space for you to be able to reconnect with your child again. Or, we might target memories from your own childhood from when your needs weren't met, which could be getting in the way of allowing you to be the parent you want to be.
EMDR Therapy sessions are 90 minutes each. On average it takes between 1-3 sessions per memory to resolve the disturbance and reprocess your past experience. Sometimes reprocessing one memory is enough to take the edge of things. Sometimes we need to process a couple more. It all depends on your individual needs that I will discuss with you as we progress. Please note that we won't be able to reprocess a memory the first time we meet. I need to do a proper assessment and prepare with you to ensure we keep you safe during processing. I will explain all this the first time we meet.
Advocacy support
I intend to offer school advocacy support in the near future. More information about this coming soon.
Cost will be:
- Preparation sessions: $ 193.99 per 60-minute session or $290.99 per 90-minute session- School meeting: $193.99 for the first hour (or a part thereof) and $49.50 per 15-minute block (or a part thereof)- Travel time is charged at the rate of $49.50 per 15 minutes travel time.
Parenting PDA Kids & Teens Support Group
Parenting PDA kids is so incredibly hard and you should not be on this journey by yourself. I run a support group for parents in Brisbane (Woolloongabba) on a bi-monthly basis.
The group is held every last Friday of every second month from 6pm - 8pm. The number of attendees is cut off at 12 people.
The Support group is run on a voluntary basis. Mending Memories for PDA Families organises dinner and drinks which is included in the price.
Support Group cost is $25,-.
Parenting PDA kids is so incredibly hard and you should not be on this journey by yourself. I run a support group for parents in Brisbane (Woolloongabba) on a bi-monthly basis.
The group is held every last Friday of every second month from 6pm - 8pm. The number of attendees is cut off at 12 people.
The Support group is run on a voluntary basis. Mending Memories for PDA Families organises dinner and drinks which is included in the price.
Support Group cost is $25,-.