Work with Charlotte.

Because living with autoimmune disease shouldn’t come with a second job: managing your healthcare. Autoimmune disease already causes fatigue, pain, and many other symptoms that make it difficult to function in your life. Extra mental load shouldn’t be on that list.

Autoimmune care can keep changing long after diagnosis. Symptoms may persist, treatments may take months to work—or may not work well enough—and important concerns can remain unresolved without a clear next step. Treatment changes can also mean new specialists, labs, appointments, and logistics to manage.

Dealing with specialty pharmacies, infusion centers, insurance companies, and copay programs adds another layer of coordination to your care. You become the project manager of a large, complex system where no one seems to talk to each other.

Think of a patient advocate as a project manager and second set of eyes for your healthcare. They can help you organize your medical history, prepare for appointments, coordinate between providers, navigate insurance and medication logistics, and follow up on all the loose ends that otherwise fall back on you.

An advocate doesn't replace your doctors or make medical decisions for you. We help you get the information, coordination, and support you need to make those decisions with your care team.

In 2023, I was diagnosed with reactive arthritis. When my symptoms didn’t resolve, that diagnosis evolved into undifferentiated spondyloarthritis and eventually Crohn’s disease with enteropathic arthritis.

I know what it's like for autoimmune care to keep changing and what it's like when care gets stuck. I spent months on treatments that weren’t working, continued to have symptoms that didn’t always show up in routine bloodwork, and had to keep pushing when important concerns still felt unresolved.

Along the way, I’ve coordinated across specialists, pushed my doctors when they didn't give me clear answers, and even escalated a six-month specialist wait to two weeks after a hospitalization. I now work with people who already have an autoimmune diagnosis and need help managing what happens next, whether that’s a treatment change, multiple specialists, or care that has hit a wall.

I’m also a software engineer and a 200-hour certified yoga teacher. Engineering taught me how to debug complex systems, trace problems across interconnected parts, and identify what’s missing or unresolved. I bring that same systems-thinking approach to complex care across symptoms, specialists, treatments, and logistics, while yoga shaped how I think about supporting the whole person, not just managing medical tasks.

My mission is to give autoimmune patients the support I wish I’d had: someone in their corner who understands both the disease burden and the work of navigating the healthcare system.

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