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PDA Peer Consultation Circle

A monthly neurodiversity-affirming reflective practice and peer consultation space for professionals supporting PDAers and PDA-impacted families.

​Upcoming dates:

  • June 1, 2026, 9:30-11:00am PST

  • July 6, 2026, 9:30-11:00am PST

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Format: Virtual

Investment: $75

Max: 10 participants per session

 

About the Facilitator: 

Camille is an AuDHD RSW (in ON and BC) and RCC (in BC), living in a neurodiverse family where PDA is present. She also supports PDA individuals and families living with PDA, and practitioners who support PDA clients. ​

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​Purpose: 

  • To reduce professional isolation,

  • To help practitioners tolerate uncertainty,

  • To support nervous-system awareness in helpers,

  • To create a space where professionals can move away from coercive or compliance-oriented responses without shame,

  • To engage in professional and collaborative case consultation with peers who are also serving PDAers, and

  • To engage in cross-disciplinary collaboration and sharing of neurodiversity-affirming resources and strategies specific to PDA.

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This group is grounded in the neurodiversity paradigm and assumes PDA is best understood through low-demand, collaborative, relational, and nervous-system-informed approaches rather than compliance-based behaviour modification.

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This Group is For: 

  • Counsellors, therapists, and social workers,

  • Behaviour interventionists (BI) and behaviour consultants (BC) who are seeking to serve clients within the neurodiversity paradigm (non-ABA),

  • Mental and medical health practitioners, and

  • Educators supporting PDAers (i.e., teachers, SEAs, tutors, etc.). 

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Participants from all Canadian provinces and territories are welcome. This group is offered as a professional peer consultation and learning space and is not intended to provide regulated clinical services across jurisdictions.

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Group Values:

  • Mutuality,

  • Confidentiality,

  • Curiosity over certainty, and

  • Nervous-system-informed practice.

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What to Expect:

  • 10–15 min — arrivals/check-in/intention/self-reflection

  • 10 min — brief teaching/resource/topic or participant question and discussion

  • 50–55 min — 2-3 consultation cases (maintaining confidentiality)

  • 10 min — takeaways/resources/closing​​

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This Group is Not:

  • This group is intended to support collaborative professional reflection and learning, not to establish consensus regarding PDA conceptualization, diagnosis, or intervention; 

  • Psychotherapy; 

  • Clinical supervision; 

  • Crisis support; or

  • Parent support​​​

Neurodiversity-Affirming Values Statement

​This consultation space is grounded in the neurodiversity paradigm and recognizes neurodivergence as a natural and valuable form of human diversity rather than a deficit to be normalized or extinguished.

 

We strive to support PDAers and PDA-impacted families through approaches that prioritize:

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  • autonomy,

  • safety,

  • collaboration,

  • nervous system regulation,

  • relational trust,

  • consent,

  • authenticity,

  • and sustainable functioning over compliance or behavioral control.

 

We acknowledge the impact that coercive, compliance-based, and deficit-oriented systems can have on neurodivergent individuals and families, including burnout, trauma, shame, and relational rupture.

Participants are invited to engage with humility, curiosity, and a commitment to reflective practice.​​​

The Holding Space: Virtual Counselling & Family Care

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