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Disability Advocacy & Coaching
Who Could Benefit from Advocacy & Coaching Services?
Our desire to offer coaching/consultation and advocacy support around the topic of disability and chronic conditions came from our owner's lived experience of personally navigating the obstacles various systems pose to a person with limitations, neurodivergences, or differences. As we began to consider this offering, we realized it needs to be a seperate company. So, while we continue to work on creating our seperate coaching company, and a seperate website to display our service offerings in this arena, we want to be clear: this service does not include counseling, and is not therapy or individual counseling.
Our aim with this service is to work with groups, education entites, service providers and the general community to provide further education and consultation on topics around disability and it's various intersections. Whether this is done by providing a disabled perspective on an issue or a speaker (who also identifies as a disabled adult) to cover things like: disability and mental health, disability-related etiquette, exploration of practical tools and skills to support clients/providers, or inclusive and equitable workspaces (to name a few) we want to help and support you.
We believe every one deserves a quality of life they enjoy, and this starts with our medical, corporate and other similar systems embracing diversity, acceptance, inclusion, equity, and support for all.
Are you a business, non-profit or school looking for training on disability, inclusion, and accessibility in your workplace or field? Want to hear from a disabled adult as you try to fill gaps in your business' services or supports? Get trainings, input, education and resources, completed in a consultative capacity, from someone who understands the topic from both from lived (personal) and gained (professional) experiences.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What type of Coaching/Consulting will you be providing once the seperation is complete?
When up and running, our seperate company and website will show that we will provide disability-related or chronic condition-related coaching/consulting to support caregivers, school students/staff, service providers, workplaces and community members in being able to sufficiently and authentically support and understand their disabled loved ones, patients/clients, colleagues, students or friends. This service is not therapy, will have its own agreement/contract apart from our counseling paperwork, and includes services to provide resources, consultation, and education on various topics related to disability such as (but not limited to): disability culture, intersectionalities with things like mental health or community services, and unique considerations.
Would you come to speak about Disability and DEI advocacy for my school/workplace/church/community group event?
Yes, our owner (Brittany Attwood) is available for speaking gigs! Please reach out via our contact page and we can discuss what you are looking for and pricing details. Please note, these speaking engagements are not group therapy.
Who could benefit from Coaching?
Anyone and Everyone! With nearly 1 in 6 children being born differently abled the chances are you know someone who struggles to have access, inclusion and equity in their various environments. Whether you want a bird's eye view of life with a disability to improve your advocacy work, practical tools to support your community or clients, or you want to create more equity and inclusion in your workplace, our work together can be as tailored to your disability advocacy and coaching goals as needed.
How does pricing work?
Our disability related advocacy and coaching services are $125/hour for one time or one day requests. Group pricing for multi-day speaking engagements or immersive small group experiences is available upon request for schools, churches, events, and community groups.
How does therapy/counseling and coaching differ?
Therapy is treating medical necessity and diagnosis, whereas coaching/consulting is dealing with situational, non-clinical, less severe problems or addressing non-clinical objectives. When providing disability advocacy and coaching services, Brittany will not be in the room as an LPC. Instead, she will come to you as an individual living with a disability herself, and provide support, consultation, education and resources to aid you in achieving your identified objective through consultation, education, and non-clinical problem solving. These services also use an entirely different contract/agreement than therapy services. If you are reaching out for coaching as an individual, and Brittany feels you may benefit more from counseling services instead of coaching, then she will refer you for those services within our company. Once that referral is made (and you agree to said referral/recommendation) you will be informed you are no longer receiving coaching services and will be asked to sign separate agreements/contracts to be seen as a counseling client from there on. To avoid confusion, there will be no counseling client who will ever also be a coaching client of this practice and vice versa. There are no dual clients.