Disability Coaching & Disability Doula
During regular meetings we will focus on building strategies for living with chronic illness or disability
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What this is:
During regular meetings we will focus on building management strategies for living with chronic illness or disability, both practically and in the abstract. In a series of video calls, we talk about you and your health. The topics are tailored to your unique needs, but generally will fall into three categories:
Practical/External
This category often includes specific, tangible goals like navigating the healthcare system, symptom tracking, care plans, and setting boundaries to name a few. Essentially, this is about managing the practical realities of being sick. Being sick is a skill, and like most skills it can be improved with practice and mentorship.
Abstract/Internal
This category is about the emotional and spiritual realities of being sick, and how to find well-being inside an envelope of illness. Some topics in this category could include the processes of acceptance, grief, healing, and how spiritual practice can fit into your life, among others. In a broken medical system, practical solutions only get us so far.
I offer to train all my clients in various mindfulness techniques, including meditation. These practices are not for everyone, but those who are interested often find them beneficial.
Change Coaching
Change coaching involves talking through where we are in our lives and where we want to be. With you as the expert on your own life, and with me as a change facilitator, we collaborate to identify ways in which you’d like to grow, and then work together to make it happen. It’s a lighthearted collaborative process that, if we take it seriously, can have profound change on our lives.
Some practicalities of being chronically ill we could cover:
| Processing medical gaslighting and harm | Fear |
| How to self advocate to medical professionals | Grief |
| Intersection of queerness and disability | Preparing for doctor appointments |
| Understanding and processing an illness | Power imbalances |
| Creating systems of care within an illness | Symptom tracking |
| Seeking diagnosis | Stepping into disability, chronic illness, or mental illness. |
| Interpersonal and social issues related to disability | Internalized ableism |
| Mobility aids | Finding motivation |
| Family and generational trauma | Setting and maintaining boundaries |
| Identity labels | Altered states |
| Acceptance | Healing (physical, spiritual, emotional) |
| Diagnoses | Sex, love, and intimacy |
| Neurodivergence | Spirituality |
| Pacing |
What this isn’t
I do not provide medical advice, diagnoses, cures, treatments, or therapy.
Fees
Takes a look at the fee structure page here.
Ready to get started?
Contact me to setup a free, zero obligation intro call. I do not use sales tactics or pressure potential clients into booking.