Inside the session
45min
Understanding your child's PDA
4.6 · 24 parent reviewsWhy the usual rewards and consequences backfire, what demand avoidance really is, and the low-demand approach that helps.
Optional. Let your specialist know your child's age, what's been happening & what you are looking for. This helps us tailor the session to your child.
Private & confidential — shared only with your matched specialist.
Matched with a vetted UK specialist, usually within 24 hours.
How Remarkable Minds works
Get matched to the right specialist for you
Tell us about your child in a 5-minute plain-English form. We hand-pick a vetted UK specialist (HCPC, BACB or NASEN-registered) whose experience actually fits.
Have sessions whenever it suits you
Evenings, weekends, school holidays. Specialists set their own availability so you can book around your life, not around 9-to-5.
Walk away with a plan
Leave each session with concrete next steps you can use: strategies, email drafts, EHCP wording. Plus a specialist you can come back to.
Parents who've been here. What they said afterwards.
Based on 24 verified reviews
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Cynical dad here, thought 'pathological demand avoidance' sounded made up. It isn't, and within ten minutes she'd described my daughter to a tee. Came away with a proper approach instead of just despair.
Really useful introduction to PDA and what helps, and the summary was clear. I'd have liked a few more ready-made phrases to use in the heat of the moment, but she pointed me to where to find them.
Plain talking, no jargon, and she clearly lives and breathes this. By the end I understood the anxiety driving the avoidance and how to lower it. Best money I've spent since the diagnosis.
Lovely specialist and the low-demand approach has helped. It took our whole family a while to get on the same page with it, mind — the grandparents found 'just offer choices' hard to accept at first.
I'd been fighting my son over every tiny thing. Learning to declare rather than demand, and to build in his autonomy, has given us our relationship back. Wish I'd found this two years ago.
She validated that PDA is real even though our area barely acknowledges it. Just being believed was huge, and then the strategies actually worked on top of that.
Vetted before they ever meet your child
Enhanced DBS, qualifications verified against the awarding body, identity confirmed in person.
Common questions
Is PDA an official diagnosis?
PDA is widely understood as a profile of autism rather than a standalone diagnosis, and not every clinician uses the term. You don't need a formal PDA diagnosis to book — if the profile fits your child, the strategies still help.
Will you tell me to be stricter?
No — quite the opposite. PDA is one of the few profiles where firmer boundaries and reward charts usually make things worse. We focus on lowering demands, offering choice and reducing anxiety: the approaches families consistently find work.