A patient's eyes on what you're building.
I'm not running a full consulting practice yet. What I am doing is saying yes to a small number of engagements where my lived experience and the methodology I've built can be genuinely useful to the work you're already doing.
Most consultants in this space come to it from the institutional side — healthcare strategy, patient experience research, HR and accommodations, disability policy. I come to it as the patient first. That's a different angle, not a better one. It's useful in some rooms and wrong in others. If your project is one of the rooms where it fits, I'd love to hear about it.
Who I can be useful to.
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Patient advocacy organizations and nonprofits
Groups building resources, programs, or campaigns for women with chronic illness — and wanting a set of eyes from inside the population you're serving. I can read your materials, walk your user journey, and tell you what reads as accurate and what reads as written-by-someone-who-has-never-been-the-patient.
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Healthcare systems and clinical teams
Systems working on patient experience for people with chronic illness — where the friction points often aren't what the internal team thinks they are. I can bring a patient's structural read to where your system loses trust, and what small changes would make the biggest difference to the people navigating it.
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Researchers, writers, and journalists
If you're working on a book, study, article, or series about women's chronic illness experience and need a source who'll talk in specifics rather than generalities — or a reader who can check your work for things that will land wrong with the population you're writing about — I'm open to conversations.
Scope, briefly.
I take engagements one at a time, scoped to what I can actually deliver inside a chronic-illness body. Most of what I do well is bounded: a document review, a strategic read, a couple of working sessions, a written response. I don't take retainers or open-ended advisory relationships right now.
Pricing is by conversation. I'll tell you honestly whether a project is a fit for what I can offer, what a fair scope looks like, and what it's worth. If it isn't a fit, I'll tell you that too — and I usually know someone who might be.
If you're working on something in this space, tell me about it.
Email is the best way to reach me. A few sentences about what you're building, who it's for, and what kind of help you're looking for is enough to start. I'll get back to you.
Email me