Access involves the full experience of receiving services: making an appointment, understanding information, communicating needs, giving consent, and following up.

As a public health professional, sexual health professional, and sexologist, I help providers examine how disability, ableism, sexuality, and power shape that experience. Together, we can identify barriers and develop more accessible, respectful approaches to service delivery.

Accessible sexual healthcare & health information

Sexual healthcare access includes being able to learn about anatomy, contraception, sexually transmitted infections, pleasure, and reproductive options in a format you can use. It also includes privacy, direct communication, and room to ask questions, express preferences, or decline.

I help teams examine how those experiences work for blind and disabled people. We can review sexual health education materials, how staff explain a procedure or resource, how consent is discussed, and whether a person has to depend on someone else to read private information. We can develop clearer educational language and approaches that support participation.

This work draws on coordinating sexual health services programming at LightHouse, community research on barriers to sexual healthcare and health literacy, and collaboration on tactile anatomy materials. It brings disability justice, cultural humility, sex positivity, and harm reduction into the practical details of service delivery.

Who this work is for

This work supports healthcare providers, public health teams, rehabilitation programs, social service organizations, and professionals serving blind and disabled people. It can help teams improve interactions, strengthen educational materials, or address concerns about access, communication, consent, and sexual health.

Ways we can work together

Service experience review: Examine how people move through services, from initial contact and intake to appointments, referrals, and follow-up.

Accessible communication and education: Review forms, educational materials, and communication practices. Recommend ways to help people understand information, ask questions, and participate in decisions.

Consent culture and autonomy training: Consider how power and consent operate in everyday service interactions, including offering assistance, discussing options, involving support people, and respecting boundaries. For rehabilitation and blindness services, this includes daily living and orientation and mobility instruction.

Sexual health and disability education: Help professionals address sexuality, relationships, pleasure, safer sex, and body autonomy with accurate information and respect for disabled people’s experiences and choices.

Program and practice consultation: Provide feedback on programs, staff training, procedures, and resources, with recommendations for improving access and participation.

An affirming approach to services

Disability justice asks how people receiving services influence their design and delivery, how different barriers interact, and how access becomes a shared responsibility. Blind positivity challenges assumptions that blindness makes someone less capable of understanding, choosing, or participating.

We can examine both ableism in service systems and the internalized messages that may make people feel unable to question a provider or ask for what they need. The responsibility for respectful services belongs to the organization and its professionals.

Cultural humility means asking rather than assuming and respecting how identity, culture, relationships, and past experiences affect an interaction. Harm reduction supports practical, nonjudgmental discussion of options and risks. Sex positivity makes room for pleasure, diverse identities and relationships, and a person’s choice about sexual activity.

Questions we can examine

• Are staff communicating directly with the person receiving services?
• Can people access information in a format they can use?
• Can they ask questions, express preferences, pause, or decline?
• How are privacy and autonomy handled when support people are involved?
• What assumptions about disability or sexuality affect support?
• How can people receiving services shape improvements?

Depending on the project, deliverables may include staff training, written recommendations, revised educational language, communication tools, program feedback, or implementation steps.

Pricing and next steps

Training and consultation are quoted according to scope, preparation, format, and deliverables. We can discuss a focused session, a materials review, or ongoing support.

Tell me about the service, materials, or interaction you want to improve. We can identify a useful starting point and discuss access needs, scope, format, and a quote before beginning.