About Delphine
I’m Delphine (she/her) — a disabled coach, advocate, educator, and storyteller. I am a full-time wheelchair user, and my lived experience navigating systems intentionally built for my exclusion shapes every aspect of my work.
My body, access needs, care, and relationships are not background details. They are central to how I understand power, autonomy, pleasure, and what it means to take up space.
Growing up and living as a disabled woman has meant witnessing how systems shape not just physical access, but internal worlds — how safe it feels to want things, to set boundaries, to trust your desires, or to imagine something different.
That lived experience is not something I add to my work. It is the ground it has been built upon.
My Approach
I facilitate conversations that examine how disability, identity, and systemic power shape our lived realities.
My work is collaborative and relational. I’m interested in context — how bodies, identities, and institutions shape capacity, choice, and self-trust.
Pleasure, in this work, is not indulgence or escape. It’s information. It offers insight into agency, desire, and aliveness — especially for people whose bodies or needs have been controlled, dismissed, or misunderstood.
Whether I’m speaking at a conference, facilitating a workshop, or holding coaching space, I aim to create environments where complexity is welcomed and hard conversations can be named with care.
Experience & Credentials
I am a certified trauma-informed life coach through Moving the Human Spirit and am currently working toward my Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential through the International Coaching Federation.
I completed the Sexuality Education Internship with the Masakhane Center, contributing to justice-centered sexuality education initiatives, workshops, and collaborative materials.
I hold a master’s degree in mass communication and have presented at conferences including Cure SMA and the North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault (NCCASA), speaking on disability, access, embodiment, intimacy, pleasure, and care.
Who I Work With
I primarily work with disabled people, and I also partner with organizations seeking disability justice education rooted in lived experience rather than abstraction.
This work isn’t about becoming someone new. It’s about examining what has been constrained or dismissed — and exploring what becomes possible when those parts are given room to exist.