Frequently Asked Questions

Answers about Laura Millar’s five offerings, coaching rates, access, consent culture, disability justice, sexuality, and working together.

Frequently Asked Questions

Answers about my public health and sexology work, coaching, training, consent, sexuality, and access. Select a question to open its answer; select it again to close it. More than one answer can stay open.

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Finding the right service

How do I choose among your five offerings?

Education and Coaching: individual or relationship support, sexual health education, guest lectures, and professional development.

Organizational Training and Consulting: team workshops, leadership support, consent culture, and everyday organizational practice.

Community Engagement and Collaboration: facilitated conversations, partnerships, community education, and advocacy.

Policy and Systems Change: policy and program review, research and curriculum advising, and public health communication.

Health Services and Accessibility: provider training and reviews of information, communication, consent, and service access.

You do not need to know which category fits before contacting me. Tell me what you have in mind.

Do you work only with blind or disabled people?

No. I work with individuals, families, educators, community groups, service providers, and organizations. Blindness and disability are areas of expertise, and many people come to me for broader support with sexuality, consent, communication, public health, or organizational change.

Coaching and working together

What can I expect from coaching?

Coaching offers space to ask questions, explore an experience, practice communication, and identify useful next steps. We can talk about sexuality, pleasure, relationships, disability, self-advocacy, access, and life transitions.

At the beginning, we discuss your goals, access needs, privacy, boundaries, and whether my support is a good fit. Depending on your goals, we may use educational resources, practice conversations, or agree on activities between sessions. Your pace and choices matter.

How is coaching different from therapy?

My coaching provides sexual health education and support. I am not a licensed sex therapist, and coaching does not replace therapy, medical care, legal advice, or crisis services.

When a need falls outside my role, we can discuss resources, referrals, and ways to advocate for accessible care.

What topics can I discuss with you?

Topics include consent, boundaries, communication, dating, relationships, pleasure, identity, gender, sexual orientation, body autonomy, kink, and different relationship structures. We can also explore ableism, internalized ableism, access needs, and navigating education or healthcare systems.

Sexual health education can include contraception, sexually transmitted infections, and risk awareness. I provide educational information rather than diagnosis or treatment. Your identity, consensual interests, and relationship structure are not problems that need to be fixed.

Do I need to have a problem to seek coaching?

No. Curiosity is enough. You might want to learn, prepare for a conversation, explore a goal, practice a skill, or better understand your own desires and boundaries.

How many coaching sessions will I need?

Some people want one focused conversation; others prefer ongoing support. We discuss your goals, available options, and a pace that works for you. There is no single number of sessions that fits everyone. Contact me to discuss the starting point.

What are your rates?

Individual coaching is offered on a sliding scale of $75 to $125 per 50-minute session. Choose any amount within that range based on your resources, or speak with me about a rate that works for you. No explanation or proof of income is required.

Limited lower-cost or no-cost coaching spaces may be available, depending on my schedule and capacity.

For for-profit organizations, a 90-minute workshop on an existing topic starts at $500. This includes a one-hour planning conversation and preparation time for the workshop. New or substantially adapted workshops, consulting, and ongoing work receive a custom quote. Any travel costs are agreed separately.

For nonprofits, introductory consent sessions are $150 per teaching hour, or you can contact me to discuss other arrangements. Other nonprofit and community workshops and trainings are quoted separately.

We discuss the scope and cost before agreeing to work together. See Education and Coaching for coaching formats or contact me about a group or project.

Can I sponsor a class, gift coaching, or explore funding together?

You can sponsor an introductory consent session for a school for blind students, teachers of blind students, or parents of blind children at $150 per teaching hour. Consent 101 is a one-hour workshop. Other introductory topics include consent in everyday situations and consent across the lifespan. This sponsorship rate applies only to introductory consent sessions. Other workshops and trainings are priced separately.

Choose a school or group, or ask me to match your sponsorship with one on my waiting list. Schools and groups can contact me to join the waiting list. We confirm the recipient, topic, and arrangements together before payment.

You can also gift or sponsor a coaching package. Contact me to arrange the number of sessions and cost. The recipient chooses whether to participate and what they want to work on.

We can also explore grant opportunities and collaborate on raising funds to support education or coaching for your school, group, or community.

Contact me about sponsorship, coaching gifts, or funding.

How do you handle privacy?

Before we begin, we discuss privacy, confidentiality, communication methods, and any limits or exceptions that apply. You can ask questions before deciding what to share.

In group work, we establish shared expectations, but I cannot guarantee what another participant will do with information. You can decline an activity or choose not to share personal experiences.

Why learn about sexuality if I am abstaining or waiting until marriage?

Sexuality education can support understanding your body, consent, boundaries, relationships, and health whether or not you have sex. Abstaining, waiting, being unsure, and choosing not to pursue sexual activity are all choices that deserve respect. Education does not create an obligation to become sexually active.

Do you work with couples and other relationship structures?

Yes. I work with individuals, partners, couples, families, and small groups, including people in polyamorous and other relationship structures. You do not need to be blind or disabled to ask about working together. We discuss each person’s participation, goals, and consent.

Do we need to meet in person?

Coaching is generally offered by phone or online. We can discuss other arrangements, location, availability, and access needs in advance. Contact me to explore what works for you.

Training, organizations, and community work

How do you help organizations create a consent culture?

I offer training, leadership coaching, consent culture assessments, and reviews of policies and everyday practice. We can work on boundaries, communication, decision-making, privacy, accountability, and meaningful choices for staff and participants.

Depending on the project, this may connect with curriculum development, community partnerships, awareness campaigns, or policy recommendations. Start with Organizational Training and Consulting or Policy and Systems Change.

What workshops do you offer for the blind community?

Topics include Let’s Talk About Ableism, Building a Culture of Consent, Consent for Leadership, Accessible Interaction and Blind Inclusion, Sexual Health, Disability, and Body Autonomy, and Internalized Ableism: Getting Out of Your Own Way.

We can discuss consent in daily living skills and orientation and mobility instruction, workplace boundaries, LGBTQ+ inclusion, and accessible sexual health education. Workshops can be tailored for blind and disabled people, families, educators, providers, or organizational teams. Explore Education and Coaching and Organizational Training and Consulting.

How do you handle personal topics in group workshops?

We establish expectations for respectful participation and discuss access needs and boundaries. Participants can ask questions, decline an activity, or choose not to share a personal experience. No one needs to disclose private information to demonstrate that they are learning.

I use practical examples and invite curiosity without requiring agreement, disclosure, or a particular kind of participation. Consent culture shapes the learning process itself.

Sexuality, consent, and my approach

What is blind positivity?

Blind positivity makes room for blind identity, community knowledge, skills, and self-direction. It challenges stereotypes and internalized messages that blind people are less capable or less entitled to relationships, pleasure, and participation.

It does not require pretending barriers are easy or feeling positive all the time. Access, support, interdependence, and changes to discriminatory systems belong in the conversation.

What is sex positivity?

Sex positivity supports access to accurate information and respects people’s choices, identities, bodies, and consensual expressions of sexuality. It makes room for pleasure and curiosity without shame.

It also respects a person’s choice not to have sex, not to pursue a relationship, or to remain unsure. No one owes anyone sexual interest, activity, or disclosure.

What is consent culture?

Consent culture means making consent, boundaries, access, and accountability part of everyday relationships and institutions. Consent should be freely given, informed, specific, and ongoing. People need meaningful ways to ask questions, decline, and change their minds.

This applies to intimate relationships and to offering assistance, touching a cane or other mobility aid, sharing personal information, making decisions, and participating in education or services. We also need to address power differences that make saying no difficult.

How do disability justice and cultural humility shape your work?

Disability justice directs attention to overlapping forms of exclusion, collective access, interdependence, and the leadership of people most affected. It helps us ask what a system needs to change alongside what support a person wants.

Cultural humility means listening, examining assumptions, and staying open to learning. Together with harm reduction, these approaches help me share information and develop practical options without shame or treating one person’s experience as universal.

What are ableism and internalized ableism?

Ableism includes attitudes, practices, policies, and environments that devalue disabled people or restrict their choices and participation. Internalized ableism describes the ways those messages can become part of how we judge ourselves.

Working on internalized messages should not mean blaming individuals for discrimination. My coaching, teaching, and consulting connect personal support with changes in communities, organizations, and systems.

What does a clitoris look like?

The clitoris includes a visible glans near the top of the vulva and internal structures that extend into the body. Its overall structure is larger than the part that is visible. Shape, size, and sensitivity vary.

Tactile models can help make anatomy easier to understand without relying only on pictures. For an anatomical overview, see Cleveland Clinic’s explanation of the clitoris.

Why is your logo a clitoris with a cane?

My logo brings blind positivity and sex positivity together. The clitoris represents pleasure and bodily autonomy. The white cane represents blind identity and access. Together, they reflect my work toward cultures where disabled people’s bodies, choices, and desires are respected.

Teaching with a three-dimensional model of the clitoris showed me how many blind and sighted people had never encountered its full anatomy. That experience inspired a playful character with a cane and, eventually, my logo. It makes room for curiosity, accessible education, and humor.

Logo image description: On a black background, a red clitoris holding a white cane appears beside sky-blue lettering reading Laura Millar Consulting. A straight, vibrant rainbow band sits beneath the words.

Still have a question? Contact Laura.