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The Massachusetts PDA Clinical Consultation & Study Group exists to provide a reflective, collaborative consultation space for experienced clinicians committed to neurodevelopmentally informed, PDA-affirming practice. Grounded in clinical expertise and professional use of self, the group supports thoughtful engagement with demand, capacity, and nervous system regulation while advancing ethical, connected, and self-directed approaches to care in the absence of established best-practice models.
Shared Values
Professional Collaboration & Accountability
We rely on active collaboration, consultation, and shared clinical reasoning.
We value interdisciplinary partnership, trusted referral relationships, and collective responsibility for ethical practice.
Reflective Practice
& Use of Self
We believe meaningful learning happens through ongoing reflection on clinical work and on our own reactions within it.
Our consultation space centers professional use of self as a core competency, not an add-on skill.
Neurodevelopmental Integrity
We ground our work in an accurate understanding of PDA as a neurodevelopmental profile of autism.
We resist trauma-based misattributions and deficit narratives that obscure neurobiology and lead to harmful practice.
Foundational Practice Framework
We approach demand through a nervous system–informed, capacity-aware lens that recognizes fluctuation as a reality rather than a failure.
Strategic reductions in demand are used to support regulation and restore access to engagement, with the goal of returning to meaningful, relational participation that is developmentally appropriate and autonomy-supportive.
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Requests are considered based on current availability, scope of practice, and professional alignment.
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