Struggling with medical conversations? Compassionate Navigation offers patient advocacy, health care coaching, and inclusive support for confident and compassionate communication.

Navigate Your Health and your Health Care with Confidence & Compassion

We provide expert training and consulting for patients, hospitals, and organizations to improve health care communication, patient engagement, and provider-patient interactions through specialist training and consulting.

Our team provides expert training and consulting to help healthcare professionals foster trust, reduce uncertainty, and improve patient outcomes.

We specialize in:

✔ Reducing miscommunication between providers and patients
✔ Coaching patients and medical staff in handling sensitive and complex discussions

✔ Increasing understanding of the importance of Trauma-Informed & Culturally Competent Care
✔ Mediating Conflict and providing Compassionate Resolution & Workplace Communication

Let’s collaborate to create a more inclusive, effective healthcare system.

Improve provider-patient communication and streamline healthcare team interactions with expert training and consulting services.

  • communication focused national speaker

    Speaking Engagements

    With over 30 years of public speaking experience, 20 years as a communication educator, and a lifetime of passion for helping others Malynnda is here to navigate any communication challenge. Her candid, witty, and personable approach is sure to connect with any audience as she leads you through the process of understanding how common communication issues arise while also providing tips and strategies for overcoming them.

  • communication and health care Consulting services

    Consulting Services

    As a Board-Certified Patient Advocate, We offer personalized consulting services to help individuals and organizations navigate complex healthcare systems. Whether you seek guidance on improving patient-provider communication, managing patient advocacy challenges, or fostering inclusive healthcare environments, we provide tailored solutions that empower you to make informed decisions and achieve better outcomes.

  • Expert training in communication

    Education and Training

    We provide customized training sessions for healthcare providers, organizations, and advocates. Our interactive programs focus on practical tools for improving patient communication, resolving conflicts, and creating inclusive spaces. Through evidence-based strategies and real-world examples, we help participants build the skills they need to improve patient care, foster positive relationships, and navigate difficult conversations with confidence.

Whether you are a patient, caregiver, advocate, or provider, if you seek someone to help you navigate any of the following areas, click the link below to set up a free consultation.

Trauma-informed care.

Disability advocacy in healthcare.

Inclusive patient communication.

Medical self-advocacy training.

Conflict mediation consultant.

Please Note:

I am not a medical provider, and I do not provide medical services. My work with you is not intended to diagnose or make any attempt to treat or cure any disease or condition. Nothing said, printed, or produced by Compassionate Navigation is intended or meant to diagnose, prescribe, or treat a disease or take the place of a licensed physician.