Quality Care

You have the right to:

• Respect for your cultural and spiritual beliefs, values, customs, and preferences

• Equal care regardless of age, race, ethnicity, religion, socio-economic status, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, language, or culture

• Equal care regardless of physical or mental disability

• Courteous, responsive, and respectful treatment from healthcare workers

• Timely, appropriate, and effective pain management

• Refuse care or treatment; refuse to consent

• Complain without fear of retaliation or negative consequences to your future treatment

• Report and seek quick resolutions to any problems you have with your healthcare, including billing, denied treatment, waiting times, lack of services, or other shortfalls

Safety

You have the right to:

• Be cared for in a safe, clean environment

• Be free from neglect, misuse, verbal, sexual, mental, and physical abuse at the hands of your providers

• Be informed of the need for physical or chemical restraints for your own safety and the safety of others

• Be offered access to advocacy services

• Know the names of the people caring for you 

Privacy and Confidentiality

You have the right to:

• Personal privacy

• Refuse recordings, videotaping, or other digitally invasive procedures that are not part of your medical care

• Medical records, contact information, payment records, and the ability to share them with your consent only except when necessary between practitioners in the act of providing your care 

Information

You have the right to:

• Be fully informed of your health condition, treatment plan, and services as they change

• Be involved in care planning to the extent you wish or are able

• Receive information in a way that meets your need for vision, speech, hearing, or cognitive impairment

• Designate an agent to assist you in advocating for your wishes

• Have your medical and end of life wishes followed

Legal Disclaimer

Your right to know: 

• As an Alchemist and Soul Midwife, Eye am not providing healthcare, medical, or therapy services or attempting to diagnose, treat, prevent, or cure any physical, mental, or emotional issues. 

• Eye am not a licensed psychologist or specialist healthcare professional. My services do not replace the care of psychologists or other healthcare professionals.

• The information provided on this website is for informational purposes only and is not intended to substitute professional medical advice, diagnoses, or treatment. Always seek advice from your physician or other qualified healthcare provider before undertaking a new health regimen, particularly if you are pregnant, nursing, or on any medications.

• Do not disregard medical advice or delay seeking one because of information you read on Art of Surrender Soul Midwife Ogygia website. Do not start or stop any medications without speaking to your medical or mental health provider first.

• This information has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This information is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. 

Commitment to a Neuro-Affirming Practice

We commit to follow to the very best of our ability these signposts of a respectful practitioner inspired by the Therapist Neurodiversity Collective International:

• We presume competence

• We offer alternative & augmentative communication methods

• We advocate for self-determination

• We advocate for inclusion

• We facilitate self-advocacy skills

• We do not support ABA practice or any methodologies that teach compliance

• We take a strengths-based approach

• We respect each clients autonomy

• We respectfully appreciate intersectionality in both ourselves and our clients & work to unpack any privilege we may have

• We are actively anti-racist 

• We are LGBTQIA+ affirmative

• We actively seek out CPD, research and learnings from other neurodivergent adults 

• We use identity-first language while respecting individual clients preferences