A soft place to land for PDA Parents & Mental Health Professionals
Community Spaces
Community spaces for Connection, Support, and Sustainable Care. The PDA Nook offers gently held spaces for parents, caregivers, and professionals and navigating Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA). Rooted in nervous system awareness, low demand values, and relational safety, our offerings center human connection over fixing, honoring lived experience alongside professional wisdom.
Monthly 2nd Thursday
10:00 - 11:30 AM CST
Free
Start your day. Inhale. Grounded.
Our morning virtual group offers a soft landing space for parents and caregivers raising PDA identified children. This is a low-demand, peer-led space to check in, exhale, and draw strength from shared understanding. Whether you are navigating emotional based school avoidance, burnout, advocacy fatigue, or simply longing to feel less along - you are welcome here.
REGISTER and…
Come as you are, wherever you are!
Monthly 4th Thursday
7:30 - 9:00 PM CST
Free
End your day. Exhale. Be held.
Designed for those carrying the weight of long days, this evening circle offers a calm, non-judgmental space to unwind and reconnect. We gather with compassion, honoring both the challenges and the quiet wins of PDA parenting.
REGISTER and…
Come as you are, wherever you are!
Last Friday Every Other Month
12:00 - 1:00 PM CST, FEB
Free
Space Holders.
Co-facilitating with Amber Pearson, MSW, LICSW, Interna Mental Health, this consult group is designed for mental health professionals seeking reflective, relational support while working with PDA identified individuals and families. We gather as colleagues - not experts over one another - to deepen understanding, share perspectives, and cultivate sustainable, ethical care.
Who This Group is For
Licensed and pre-licensed mental health professionals
Therapists, counselors, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists
Interns, candidates, and associates practicing under supervision
CTSS, ARMHS, and allied providers supporting PDA identified clients.
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The Wandering Nook
Yearly
On the Horizon!
Wander. Rest. Just be.
The Wandering Nook is the experiential arm of The PDA Nook. These offerings invite participants to step away from daily roles and into environments that support restoration, presence, and embodied connection.
Each adventure is intentionally curated for specific community.
Who
we are
The PDA Nook is a warm, inclusive space created by PDA parents, for PDA parents-a place to gather, be seen, and exhale.
In addition to parent peer support, The PDA Nook also offers reflective consultation spaces for mental health professionals supporting PDA identified individuals and families. These consult groups are grounded in relational ethics, nervous system awareness, and humility, and are co-facilitated in collaboration with a licensed clinician.
Founded and facilitated by Deborah Meggitt, a trained PDA North America Support Leader and fellow parent. Deborah holds an MA in Adlerian Counseling and Psychotherapy, and brings a trauma-informed, nervous system-aware lens grounded in lived experience and deep compassion.
We come together as the experts of our individual PDA journeys-to share, to co-regulate, and to remember we are not alone.
“The Sun is always Shining behind the Clouds.”
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Let’s Illuminate Together!