What is an ADA Advocate?

  • a consultant and if needed expert witness.
  • reviews each case to determine what accommodations based on symptoms are needed.
  • arrange evaluations to assess what accommodations are needed.
  • prepares a confidential request that is provided to the access coordinator of the court requesting the accommodations.


Litigants with unseen disabilities often need advocates in addition to legal counsel. An advocate can help manage the symptoms that litigation triggers in clients who have PTSD, Anxiety, ADHD, Depression, Domestic Violence, etc. Your attorney is then freed up to handle the legal dynamics of the case.


Advocates take on an important role if a litigant does not have an attorney. 


About Me?

I became an Advocate after years of being caught in custody litigation, suffering myself from PTSD and Legal Abuse Syndrome. Recognizing late in life that I also have ADHD, the litigation process, paperwork, having to sift through interrogatories, overwhelmed me completely and exasperated my symptoms. I remember googling words like, "custody battles, I can't take it anymore." I found several stories relating to my inner distress, but no resolves were available. 


Often times I would lean on a friend, even online legal blogs, only to hear,  "ask your attorney." Asking an attorney to meet your emotional needs during a litigation such as a custody litigation is not the job of an attorney.  Such litigation triggers invisible disabilities just because it's hanging over the clients head daily. An attorney gets to mentally check out of a case, but a client lives day in and day out dancing through their minds.


Triggered or exasperated symptoms interfere with a clients ability to be their best during litigation. Advocates help clients in this process with:

  • Helping clients separate the legal from the emotional
  • Reframing Techniques for Domestic Violence Victims
  • Assist clients of Domestic Violence during the grief process
  • Teach skills for averting and dealing with abuse tactics
  • Empowering victims to regain control over their lives
  • Helping clients learn skills to effectively speak & listen at court
  • Aide in client developing mental toughness by implementing self care during triggering situations
  • Recovery starts with replacing fear with skills




A Great Mentor is hard to find, difficult to part with, and IMPOSSIBLE to FORGET!




LIGHTING THE WAY

ADAA - American Disabilities Act Advocate


My name is Linda Stock. I am a certified Advocate for Litigants with Invisible Disabilities.  The unseen disabilities that often tackle ones life daily, but even more with the stress due to litigation. Unseen disabilities associated with Domestic Violence, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Legal Abuse Syndrome, Anxiety, Depression, TBI, ADHD & other functional impairments.

A tribute to

Dr. Karin Huffer

I want to share with you about my special journey with my  Advocate.


In 2013, I spent countless hours surfing the internet for any morsel of hope in my situation. I stumbled across something called Legal Abuse Syndrome. Feeling completely oppressed from abuse the information fell quickly to the side and out of my mind completely. Oppression does that, steals your long term memory recolection because of the abuse still occurring. 


In 2016, three long years later, I surfed the internet again, and stumbled across Dr. Huffer's website a second time. Have you ever heard of the phrase "sick and tired of being sick and tired?" 


I frantically emailed Dr. Huffer for help, not remembering that I found her information three years prior. 


Immediately, she got involved in my case as my Advocate. Dr Huffer's brilliant wisdom, empathetic guidance, and successful direction created an indescribable protective shield around me. Hear that? ME!  Dr. Huffer being miles away in another state matter nothing to her ability to step up to the front line.


Emotionally, I felt a protective wall build around me, as she coached and helped me to reframe the trauma.She taught me how to replace my fears with empowering skills built on confidence in my self worth.


Dr. Huffer later empowered me to become a Certified ADA Advocate myself through John Jay Law College of Criminal Justice. When I opened the book for the course, it was as if I read my story, the girl in the book was even named Linda, so I asked her if she wrote about my story.  She replied, "Yes it is similar that is why you would be a good advocate. You know and there are so many "Linda's" out there." Karin


Victim to Advocate. Helping others cope by having real life experience, nurturing victims through empathy and validation.


I went to email her in January 2019 and learned that Dr. Karin Huffer passed away in October of 2018, after just speaking with her in September. 


A Great Mentor is hard to find, difficult to part with, and IMPOSSIBLE to FORGET!