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The Foundations Course

$199

Learn the 20 Actionable Skills to positively change the trajectory of a PDA child or teen's life.

ENROLL ME NOW!

The Foundations Course

$199

Learn the 20 Actionable Skills to positively change the trajectory of a PDA child or teen's life.

Call To Action

Imagine if you had 20 simple skills in your back pocket to feel confident in knowing exactly what to do to support a PDA child or teen (and yourself) to thrive over the long term...

You are why I designed this course!!

To provide you with a clear breakdown of 20 actionable skills that you can implement immediately to support your PDA child or teen (and yourself) in your home, therapy practice, or classroom. 

So you can:

  • Take action and make progress, even though you are stressed and overwhelmed, and your own nervous system is taxed.
  • Feel confident and resourced, even when people around you are judging the way you are accommodating a PDA child or teen. 

Unlike courses that are focused on teaching you *about* Pathological Demand Avoidance/Pervasive Drive for Autonomy, this course is designed to give you three things:

  • Step-by-step instructions, real-life examples and scripts to make implementation actually do-able.
  • A deep understanding of *how to support* the PDA brain and nervous system.
  • The confidence to make changes in your home, classroom, or therapy practice.

As a mom of a PDA child, who has been in and out of therapy and school, I know better than anyone that:

  • You are exhausted as a parent, stuck as a therapist, or overwhelmed as a teacher with 20 other students to support.
  • Your own executive functioning is tapped out.
  • You are constantly on edge because you don't have the structure and practical strategies you need to handle any given moment with your PDAer (whether in the home, clinic, or classroom).

Imagine if you had 20 simple skills in your back pocket to feel confident in knowing exactly what to do to support a PDA child or teen (and yourself) to thrive over the long term...

You are why I designed this course!!

To provide you with a clear breakdown of 20 actionable skills that you can implement immediately to support your PDA child or teen (and yourself) in your home, therapy practice, or classroom. 

So you can:

  • Take action and make progress, even though you are stressed and overwhelmed, and your own nervous system is taxed.
  • Feel confident and resourced, even when people around you are judging the way you are accommodating a PDA child or teen. 

Unlike courses that are focused on teaching you *about* Pathological Demand Avoidance/Pervasive Drive for Autonomy, this course is designed to give you three things:

  • Step-by-step instructions, real-life examples and scripts to make implementation actually do-able.
  • A deep understanding of *how to support* the PDA brain and nervous system.
  • The confidence to make changes in your home, classroom, or therapy practice.

As a mom of a PDA child, who has been in and out of therapy and school, I know better than anyone that:

  • You are exhausted as a parent, stuck as a therapist, or overwhelmed as a teacher with 20 other students to support.
  • Your own executive functioning is tapped out.
  • You are constantly on edge because you don't have the structure and practical strategies you need to handle any given moment with your PDAer (whether in the home, clinic, or classroom).

You are not alone.
I want to give you the skills and tools you need so that

you will feel empowered, confident, and capable and your own nervous system can rest.

You are not alone.
I want to give you the skills and tools you need so that

you will feel empowered, confident, and capable and your own nervous system can rest.

 

Enrollment Includes: $199 USD

✓A 140-page, easy to use handbook (PDF) 

✓16 hours of prerecorded training from Casey

✓Our signature methodology - the 5A Framework®

✓Step-by-step instructions, real-life examples and scripts to practice the 20 skills for supporting your PDA child or teen

✓Lifetime access to all the teaching sessions and book 

✓Accessible design, with captions and video transcripts available

 

Enrollment Includes: $199 USD

✓A 140-page, easy to use handbook (PDF) 

✓16 hours of prerecorded training from Casey

✓Our signature methodology - the 5A Framework®

✓Step-by-step instructions, real-life examples and scripts to practice the 20 skills for supporting your PDA child or teen

✓Lifetime access to all the teaching sessions and book 

✓Accessible design, with captions and video transcripts available

Join the 100s of other parents of PDA children and teens who have found peace

Take a look at what people have said about working with Donna....

   
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Casey's course gave our family the PDA understanding and tools to move forward, finding a peace amongst the often externalised distress. A plethora of therapists for years were taking purely an autism approach which wasn't helping. Having multiple ways to learn through video, audio, written handouts, coaching opportunities and community support meant the material was very assessable. I was best helped by listening in one ear to Casey's teaching's all throughout my days, which gave me the empowerment 'you've got this' I needed to best care for my PDA child. Thank you

 

Treena K

 

When it comes to support and understanding for parenting a PDA child or teen, Casey Ehrlich and At Peace Parents is quite simply unmatched. As a parent of a beautiful PDA daughter, I know firsthand how confusing, frustrating, and exceptionally difficult the parenting journey can be. More than anyone else in the PDA space, Casey has helped me to deeply understand PDA, and she has provided me with clear and applicable strategies to support me in parenting my daughter. I have begun using them and, although I still have a lot to practice and improve (I expect this to be a lifelong journey), I can already see them working to support my daughter's well-being and to improve the quality of our family life as a whole. Thank you, thank you, from my heart!

 

Mark B​

 

I can't recommend this program enough for parents who are striving to support their PDA child while not losing themselves in the process. Casey is clear and compassionate and offers a practical toolbox of many strategies to holistically support your PDA child, and makes these strategies relevant to all situations and ages. She holds space for parents to acknowledge their own grief and challenges, while also helping them move out of stuckness or victimhood and into agency. I loved finding community with like- minded caregivers of our wonderful PDA kids.

 

Sarah P

 

This program has transformed our family experience, giving us a new hopeful way forward. I was crippled by self-doubt but you gave me language, a framework, tools so that now I can use all my energy for helping my family rather than fighting off doubt and shame. The method is both comprehensive and flexible, autonomy is number one. And as we are finding, where there are PDA kids there are often PDA parents so we need a method that fits our neuro-type too. You have also changed my own path profoundly as I begin to consider that I may be PDA myself - the relief in that self-understanding and energy/capacity in me it has already unleashed is exponential. THANK YOU!! The amount of energy Casey put into these lectures is a gift. I appreciate it so much.

 

Abby J

 

I am grateful beyond words for what I learned in the Foundations course. For the first time in nearly a decade, I feel equipped with the tools to help my child succeed and thrive. We have already seen specific and measurable improvements in our home life. Thank you

 

Alyssa M

 

This course was the most valuable investment I've ever made in my parenting. I was initially hesitant to sign up because the materials Casey makes available on her website and social media are so excellent that I wasn't sure if the Foundations course content would be different or better than what I had already learned. But it absolutely was, and I am so grateful that I did the program. In the course, Casey goes much deeper on the content, provides dozens of examples that drive the teaching home, and pulls all of the complex concepts together. I was already trying to do the accommodations before but this course helped me to understand forces that were holding me back and to apply the accommodations in more depth and more consistently. It enabled me to go all in on changing my approach and the improvement in the past three weeks in my daughter's happiness, energy level, and ability to engage with my husband and me and with the world has been nothing short of miraculous. I cannot recommend this program highly enough.

 

Jennifer M

 

Casey really gets it! She understands the agony of seeing your child in distress but gives clear and actionable advice on how to shift the dial, slowly but surely. It's life-changing for us with a PDA child!

   

Sofia P

 

Casey provides hope, She shares a wealth of information with tangible actions that we can experiment with. I started implementing some of the things I learned during the duration of the course and started seeing small subtle changes in my child. They were small, but it was definite progress that our whole family could feel, and it's been continuing since. Casey balances the course material really well for children and teens, and she shares lots of tangible stories from her own life and other families so we could relate and realize we're not alone. Raising a PDA child is very isolating, but Casey made me realize it doesn't have to be and teaches how we can move forward, accommodate and advocate. Thank you so much Casey!

 

Pamela H​

If you are anything like my clients...

Your child has received partial or incorrect diagnoses that have never seemed to fully fit or make sense – whether it is Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) , ADHD, Autism, Childhood OCD, Attachment Disorder, Sensory Processing Disorder, etc.

But more importantly – and regardless of diagnosis – you haven’t yet been given a way to think about your child’s brain and nervous system that will actually help your family and your child. Alternatively, like many of my clients, perhaps you have already been working on a “low demand lifestyle” with your PDA child, but it seems completely unsustainable and ultimately doesn’t seem to be supporting them.

Are you not supposed to set *any* boundaries? No screen time limits ever?  Even if you understand how your PDA child’s brain works, you may be wondering – How can I set up a life that I actually want to live and that is sustainable not just for them, but also for me, my partner and my other children? 

In this program you will answer those questions and start creating that life!

Built on Casey's 5A Framework®

Awareness: Understanding Your Child's Brain and Nervous System

✓ Thorough explanation of what PDA is and how it impacts children and teens, based on my preliminary research and experience coaching hundreds of families. 
✓ Your child's Extreme Demand Avoidance Questionnaire (EDAQ) score and Limitations of the EDAQ. 
✓ The Most Fundamental Mindset Shifts on your Journey
✓ Shareable PDFs included in all modules for ease of communication with others in your life.

Acceptance: Cost-Benefit Thinking to Move Your Family Forward

✓ Understanding, recognizing and moving out of burnout
✓ Why many traditional parenting paradigms don't work
✓ Thinking as a family system with a PDA child
✓ The theory of change that brings families more peace

Accommodation: The 9 Proactive and 3 Responsive Accommodations

✓ How to experiment with accommodations (including and beyond lowering demands) and track impact and progress
✓ The four states of regulation
✓ Communication, play and other ways to build connection
✓ De-escalation techniques for meltdowns and safety

Affirmation: Building a Healthy Self-Concept for Your PDA Child or Teen

✓ Why talking about emotions and zones of regulation doesn't work with a PDA kid.
✓ How to name the threat response with example scripts.
✓ How to talk about identity with your PDA child.
✓ Lots of concrete examples to ground you in implementation.

Advocacy: Creating Safe Spaces Outside Your Home

✓ How to create "Bubbles of Safety" for your PDA child and family outside the home.
✓ Using Non-Violent Communication strategies
✓ Therapy, activities, and how to help your child access life outside of the home!
✓ Understanding People-Pleasing, Boundaries, and how *your* nervous system and upbringing might be impacting your ability to advocate for your child.

Hey there,
I’m Casey!

I’m a mom to two PDA sons, the Founder and CEO of the At Peace Parents, and leading research on PDA in the United States...

Hey there,
I’m Casey!

I’m a mom to two PDA sons, the Founder and CEO of the At Peace Parents, and leading research on PDA in the United States...

Why Now?

What would it feel like to always know the "next right step" with a PDAer in your home, your clinical practice or your classroom? 

Now is the time to take action, so that you can lay your head on your pillow each night, knowing you are helping your PDA child or teen make progress and thrive.

ENROLL ME NOW!