4 Months of PDA-Informed Parent Coaching & Support
Personalized coaching, steady guidance, and access to a licensed parent education course - all designed to help you feel more grounded, confident, and less alone as you parent a PDA child.
This is not a standalone course. It’s a coaching relationship that includes structured learning as one part of our work together.
Parenting a child whose nervous system easily overwhelms you can feel like constant survival mode - guessing, questioning, and still never feeling confident in your next step.
This 4-month coaching container gives you steady, ongoing support while we work together using a licensed parent education course by Robyn Gobbel as a shared foundation. We move at a nervous-system-safe pace, focus on your real life, and build your confidence over time - so you’re not just coping, you’re actually supported.
Currently enrolling (up to 12 families)
If you’re raising a child whose behaviors feel intense, confusing, or unpredictable, you’re not alone - and you’re not doing anything wrong.
Many parents come to this work feeling exhausted, unsure, and constantly questioning themselves. Traditional parenting advice often doesn’t help - and can even make things harder - when a child’s nervous system is easily overwhelmed and their behavior doesn’t follow typical patterns.
f you’re running on empty or feeling depleted, that’s understandable - and this experience is structured so you don’t have to ‘keep up’ to benefit. Flexibility isn’t a bonus here - it’s part of how support works.
A New and Better Way
A New and Better Way to Come Alive as a Parent - With Support, Not Just Content
This experience isn’t a traditional course you power through on your own - it’s a mixed support container where learning and live guidance are intentionally woven together over four months, with flexibility built in for real family life. You’ll engage with the licensed parent education material as part of a larger support system: coaching sessions that help you apply - not memorize - the concepts, and group integration sessions where reflection, connection, and real-time problem solving happen.
Raising Kids With Big, Baffling Behaviors: A Course For Parents is offered here as a guided, PDA-informed parent education and coaching experience.
Created by Robyn Gobbel, Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors is grounded in neuroscience and relationship-based care. The course is offered in a blended format because learning this work isn’t meant to be done in isolation - live support and reflection are essential for meaningful change!
How This Coaching Container Helps You Parent With Confidence
The licensed parent education course by Robyn Gobbel provides the shared foundation for our work - not a checklist to finish, but a springboard for conversation, reflection, and real-world application.
You’ll engage with the material between coaching sessions so that learning is connected directly to your family’s challenges and opportunities..
The coaching sessions are not separate from the course - they are where the course comes to life.
You’ll bring concepts from the coursework into coaching, so learning is tailored to your family’s unique patterns
We space learning so that ideas have room to settle, practice, and deepen between conversations.
This experience blends structured guidance with coaching so the material becomes usable, not just academic.
Unlike ongoing 1:1 coaching, this series provides a guided pathway through a structured parent course, with coaching sessions specifically designed to help you understand and apply the material in the context of your unique family.
Each coaching session is designed to:
• reflect on the course material you are engaging with
• apply it to your child’s nervous system and behavior patterns
• adapt strategies specifically for PDA profiles
• support you in real-time decision making within your family
Individual Coaching Sessions
Your individual coaching sessions are a space to:
• ask questions about the course content
• explore how the concepts show up in your household
• problem-solve current challenges using a PDA-informed lens
• adjust expectations and strategies based on your child’s stress and capacity
Group Learning & Support Calls
Group sessions are used to:
• deepen understanding of the course themes
• hear how other parents are applying the material
• normalize common struggles
• build connection - without pressure to share more than you want
This Program Is For You If Your Child…
Is PDA / demand-avoidant
Is neurodivergent (ADHD, autistic, gifted, sensory differences)
Comes from trauma, stress, adoption, or foster care
Struggles with big emotions or shutdowns
Has a vulnerable or easily overwhelmed nervous system
And for parents who feel:
“Behavior charts don’t work.”
“I want to see who my child really is underneath their fear.”
“I’m willing to do my own regulation work.”
“I’m exhausted but still want genuine understanding and nervous-system-based support.”
“I need flexibility because my capacity varies day to day.”
“I’m tired of trying strategies that only work sometimes.”
“I want not just understanding, but real confidence when things get hard.”
This Program Might Not Be a Fit If You’re…
Looking for consequence-based parenting
Wanting quick fixes or formulaic scripts
Not open to nervous-system explanations for behavior
Parenting a child with ongoing dangerous behaviors needing a higher level of care
Looking for an entirely self-paced experience without live support.
What You’ll Learn
These topics come alive inside coaching and support calls - so you turn understanding into real shifts, piece by piece.
Section 1: Become the Expert
You’ll learn the neuroscience of behavior and why your child does what they do - even when it doesn’t make sense. This reframing becomes your most powerful parenting tool!
Section 2: Brain, Body & Sensory Tools
Section 3: Why Knowing Isn’t Enough
Your toolbox grows with strategies that strengthen your child’s nervous system, reduce overwhelm, and support resilience - plus how to choose the right tool for the moment.
Skills matter only if you can access them in hard moments. This section grows your capacity to stay grounded and regulated while supporting your child.
Course Structure & What to Expect
Raising Kids With Big, Baffling Behaviors: A Course For Parents is offered in a guided, supportive format designed specifically for parents of PDA autistic and neurodivergent children.
This is not a self-paced course you complete on your own - and it’s not a rigid weekly class you have to keep up with.
Instead, learning and support are intentionally woven together in a way that centers choice, safety, and autonomy, so participation can flex with your real life and your family’s capacity.
There is no single weekly meeting time you must attend.
Here’s How Support Is Structured:
Because life with unpredictable capacity is real, this program is built so engagement can ebb and flow without penalty. You don’t fall behind, and there’s no ‘ideal pace’ you must maintain to benefit.
1) On-Demand Parent Education
You’ll receive access to the full educational course for four months, which provides a shared foundation for understanding behavior through a nervous-system-informed lens.
You’ll engage with the material:
at your own pace
between live sessions
without pressure to “finish” or keep up
The education supports and informs the live conversations - not the other way around.
2) Individual Coaching Sessions (2 × 45 minutes)
You’ll receive two individual coaching sessions during the four-month course window.
These sessions are used to:
apply course concepts to your child and family
problem-solve current challenges
support caregiver alignment
adapt strategies for PDA nervous systems
Sessions are scheduled flexibly and focused on what matters most for your household.
3) Live Group Integration & Support Sessions
Each month, multiple live small-group integration sessions are offered at different days and times to support varying schedules.
These facilitated sessions focus on:
• integrating and applying course concepts
• real-life problem solving
• shared reflection and normalizationMost families attend around six group sessions over their support window, choosing the sessions that work best for them. You’re welcome to attend more if helpful, and there is no requirement to attend any specific session.
Sessions are recorded and available for a limited time.
About Live Participation
This course includes live support to meet licensing requirements and to ensure meaningful connection and integration.
Rather than requiring attendance at a single fixed time, live participation is designed to be flexible and choice-based.
You won’t need to track this on your own - support is structured so requirements are met naturally through participation.
Enrollment is limited to 12 families per four-month series to ensure high-touch support and scheduling flexibility.
Once enrollment is full, a waitlist will be created.
The Investment
$1,200 total for the full PDA Parent Support Package
Payment Plan
• Secure your spot with a deposit of $300
• Two additional payments of $450
$450 due on your official ‘Start Date’ (see details below under ‘How to Get Started)
$450 due 30 days later
Please Note: Limited to 12 active families at a time to ensure high-touch support.
Bonus Session!
Bonus Session!
I’m thrilled to include a special bonus session taught by Danielle Rodda of Neurodivergent Consulting:
PDA Unschooling, Homeschooling, and Returning to Learning
Danielle will guide you through PDA-friendly learning environments, why traditional schooling often fails PDAers, and how to support your child’s curiosity, autonomy, and sense of safety as they explore learning on their own terms.
This bonus is included at no additional charge for any parents active in the series in March, 2026!
How To Get Started:
Step 1: Reserve your spot ($300 deposit).
Your deposit holds your place in the program and confirms enrollment.
Step 2: Your start date is automatically assigned.
After official launch on February 2nd, 2026, this program uses scheduled start dates to ensure full support and onboarding.
Families who enroll before February 2nd, 2026 begin on February 2nd.
Families who enroll on or before the 14th of any month begin on the 15th
Families who enroll on or after the 15th begin on the 1st of the following month
Your official start date will be confirmed by email after enrollment. This is the date your 4-month access to the program opens.
Step 3: Remaining payments.
The remaining balance is split into two payments of $450:
$450 due on your program start date
$450 due 30 days later
Step 4: Access + support.
You’ll receive your portal access and orientation details by email before your start date.
You don’t have to wait. You don’t have to be perfect. You just have to start.
FAQS
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No. This course is not therapy and does not create a therapist–client relationship. This is coaching and support - educational, practical, and focused on nervous-system-aware parenting.
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Yes. Both caregivers from the same household are welcome to participate at no additional cost. Coaching sessions remain focused on one family at a time.
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It’s a guided parent education experience. The course provides the foundation, and coaching and live support help you understand and apply the material to your unique family situation. The two are intentionally woven together..
If you’re looking for short-term or ongoing coaching without a structured educational component, my 1:1 coaching packages may be a better fit.
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That’s expected! There is no single live session you must attend. Live support is offered at multiple times, and you’ll choose the sessions that work best for your schedule over the four-month series.
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Most families spend an average of 1–2 hours per week engaging with the program when moving through it over about 12 weeks. Some weeks are lighter, and others include a longer live session - flexibility is built in.
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This experience is designed with real, unpredictable family life in mind. Participation can ebb and flow. You won’t “fall behind,” and support is structured to meet you where you are!
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This program is designed for real, unpredictable family life. You won’t be penalized for missing sessions, and engagement can flex with your capacity.
Most families find they benefit whether they dip in slowly or move through core concepts in about 12 weeks - the support window is four months so you can show up when you can.
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No. A formal PDA diagnosis is not required - and PDA is not currently a standalone diagnosis in the DSM-5.
This course is appropriate for parents of neurodivergent children whose nervous systems are easily overwhelmed and whose behavior doesn’t respond well to traditional behavior-based approaches.
While this series is facilitated through a PDA-informed lens, many families find it helpful even without a PDA label. The focus is on understanding nervous systems, reducing stress, and supporting connection - not on meeting diagnostic criteria.
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No! Many families move through the core content and live support in about 12 weeks. You’ll continue to have access to the course materials and live group sessions for the full four-month support window, so you can revisit concepts, deepen understanding, and stay supported without pressure.
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Yes! When the maximum amount of families have enrolled, the information on this page will change. The registration buttons will direct you to sign up on the waitlist, and I will notify you immediately of the anticipated wait time.
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Start dates are scheduled on the 1st and 15th of each month, based on when you enroll. This allows for consistent onboarding and support.
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Yes. The deposit is applied toward the total program cost.
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To ensure you receive full support, families begin on scheduled start dates rather than immediately upon enrollment.