What is mad coaching?
Mad Coaching: A Transformative Companion to Therapy
Mad coaching is not therapy; it’s a radical, love-centered approach designed to support and amplify the therapeutic journey. While therapy often focuses on diagnosing, treating, and managing mental health, mad coaching honors the complexities of your lived experience without pathologizing your emotions or behaviors. It’s a space where your madness is embraced as a source of strength, creativity, and insight.
In collaboration with your therapeutic sessions, mad coaching provides a unique framework that nurtures your self-awareness, resilience, and personal growth. I work alongside you and your therapist to bridge the gaps between conventional therapeutic practices and the powerful, often unrecognized, energies of madness. Together, we explore how to harness these energies to foster healing, self-compassion, and empowerment.
Mad coaching offers you the tools to navigate life’s challenges with a mad-forward perspective, ensuring that your journey toward wholeness is guided by empathy, understanding, and love. Whether you’re looking to deepen your therapeutic work or seek an alternative path to wellness, mad coaching is here to support you every step of the way.
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With a PhD in MAD studies, disability studies, affect theory, a Master's in education, a Master's in Cultural Studies, and current studies in an MSW program, I bring a deep understanding of the boundaries between coaching and therapy.
My work as a mad coach complements traditional therapeutic approaches by delving into the cultural, social, historical, and individual experiences of madness and mad pride.
While therapy addresses specific mental health concerns, mad coaching offers a broader exploration of how madness intersects with identity, community, and empowerment.
I work alongside therapeutic services, providing insights and tools that honor the unique (M)mad experience. Together, we’ll explore madness as a source of strength, resilience, and pride, allowing you to navigate life with a deeper sense of self-awareness and purpose.
Mad coaching is not a replacement for therapy, but a powerful companion that enriches your path to healing and self-discovery.
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Mad coaching is a transformative journey that goes beyond conventional understandings of mental health. I help individuals explore the rich history of mental illness, ableism, and sanism, guiding them in uncovering how oppression has shaped their beliefs and orchestrated their lives. Through our work together, you’ll learn to shift away from sanist and ableist ideas surrounding mental illness, disability, and chronic illness, opening up new pathways for self-awareness and empowerment.
My coaching dives deep into the practice of navigating and transmuting mad energy, using somatic techniques, journaling, and other powerful tools to foster healing and growth. We’ll also focus on practical strategies to confront and overcome discrimination, oppression, and ableism/sanism in your daily life, empowering you to move through the world with confidence and authenticity.
Mad coaching is about embracing your full self, challenging oppressive narratives, and discovering the strength in your madness. Together, we’ll create a space where you can learn, grow, and thrive.
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Discount for Professional Referrals
If you're a therapist, health practitioner, or community member, and we've connected professionally or discussed the impact of madness on challenging ableist structures, you can refer your colleagues, clients, or friends to Mad Coaching. By doing so, you’ll be offering them a unique path to personal growth. As a thank you, I’m pleased to offer a special discount to anyone you refer.Limited Sliding Scale
To ensure that Mad Coaching is accessible to all, I offer a limited sliding scale based on financial need. This approach helps make support available to those who might otherwise face barriers due to cost. Together, we can work to shift perspectives, challenge the status quo, and embrace the transformative potential of madness.
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Support clients to explore mad identity
A Mad identity is for someone with mental illness, those who might consider outside of what one might consider normal, neurodivergent, or thinking outside of ‘normal’.
Madness has a long history and complex community.
When a client is exploring Mad identity it is important to know the history and social contexts of madness.
During a client’s journey of Mad identity, we will explore ways one can develop skills of self-compassion and love.
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ONE-ON-ONE MAD LIFE COACHING
Once you have scheduled a free consultation, we will set up your initial coaching session.
The initial session will be exploring how you feel you fit in with the world, how you feel about mental illness, and your personal and professional goals.
We will then meet every two weeks to work on agreed topics and continue goal-setting.
Our sessions will:
facilitate a client’s relationship with their connection of mental illness, the social world, and self-love.
We will work to develop radical acceptance of one’s madness, others’ experiences of madness, and one’s personal development of Mad pride and Mad identity.
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Madness and Critical Love
James Baldwin writes, to “use the word “love” here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace…in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.
Love serves to expand our limitations as love liberates. To love means to hold something, some ‘body’ in a state of compassion and care.
To build skills of critical love/compassion is to build the capacity to treat ourselves and others with love and reverence. This allows us to care for all parts of ourselves, good and bad, happy and sad without expectations or desires to be ‘perfect’.
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Divorce Doula and Coaching
Much like a traditional doula who supports individuals through the process of childbirth, a Divorce Doula is a certified professional committed to guiding and empowering individuals through the various stages of divorce. We understand that divorce is a significant life transition, and our role is to provide unwavering support, understanding, and expertise during this challenging time.
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“What is Mad Pride? Mad Pride is a movement that celebrates the human rights and spectacular culture of people considered very different by our society.”
— Mind Freedom International
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