Everyday Abilities

Counseling · Berkeley, California

Rehabilitation counseling

One-on-one sessions with Walter Delson, executive director and rehabilitation counselor. In person in the Bay Area, and beyond by phone or video call. For people with disabilities (and often family or caregivers) working on goals, barriers, and whether a device might help.

Walter Delson, rehabilitation counselor and founder of Everyday Abilities Foundation

Session format: you and Walter talk (by video or in person) about a concrete goal. Typical topics are work, school, relationships, health, getting around, and daily living tasks that take more energy than they should. Sessions are available in English, Spanish, or German.

Each meeting stays practical. What are you trying to do? What’s blocking it? What can you try next? If a device, an Equipment Library demo, or a community resource might help, that comes into the conversation.

Who is served: people with disabilities, and often the family or caregivers around them. No product sales. Email or use the contact form to ask about a first conversation.

Related programs on this site: the Tech Guide (manufacturer pointers you can browse anytime) and the Equipment Library (devices you can see in person).

Illustration of a woman in a wheelchair and a man with forearm crutches talking beside a lantern in a redwood grove.

One-on-one sessions

In person in the Bay Area, and beyond by phone or video call. Pace follows what you bring that day, goals, stuck points, and what’s already working.

Illustration of a man in a wheelchair using a tablet at a table in a redwood grove, with a woman using a white cane standing beside him.

Tech Guide vs. Equipment Library

The Tech Guide lists devices we track online. The Equipment Library is the smaller set you can see in person. Counseling can point you to either.

Illustration of a person in a wheelchair, a service dog, and a person with a cane walking a sunlit path through a redwood forest.

Follow-through

As plans change, sessions keep going: navigating systems, adjusting tools, and choosing the next workable step.

Free 30-minute first consultation, in person in the Bay Area or by phone or video call.

Book a free 30-minute first consultation

In person in the Bay Area, and beyond by phone or video call. Counseling is sliding-scale; no one is turned away for inability to pay. Everyday Abilities Foundation · EIN 46-4337288 · Berkeley, CA.

Quick check-in

Is rehabilitation counseling a good match?

A few short questions to see whether this kind of counseling fits what you’re dealing with. You can pick more than one answer on each question.

Question 1 of 8

What best describes your disability experience right now?

Which area of life feels most stuck right now?

Would you like help figuring out assistive technology that could increase independence or quality of life?

Are work or school challenges getting in the way because of disability?

Are relationships, family, or social connection feeling harder?

How about mood, stress, confidence, or adjusting to disability?

Would rehabilitation counseling (focused on assistive technology and these life areas) be useful?

If you started, what would you want to sort first? (optional)

Cost

Counseling is sliding-scale; no one is turned away for inability to pay. Counseling fees go to Everyday Abilities Foundation and support its programs.

Free 30-minute first consultation, in person in the Bay Area or by phone or video call.

Tell us what you can afford when you get in touch. Cost should never be the reason someone does not ask for help.