Practically, advocacy means working for certain of individuals or communities by directly empowering and intervening by class or case advocacy. Class advocacy is advocating or intervening for a specific cause for a specific reason on behalf of a certain people class. Advocates typically intervene for an individual or community by primarily being interested in the concerns of that people class. Case advocacy, on the other hand, promotes advocates intervening for an individual or community through representing a specific interest of the community or individual. When planning an intervention with case advocacy, the intervention must focus on the fact that the system is not handling the client's needs, therefore, the client, individual, or community must be empowered through direct intervention. This can only take place after the counselor and client have thoroughly investigated the issue and assessed what needs to be done to reach their objectives.

10 steps needed to accomplish this are:

1. Defining what the actual problem is
2. Picking a goal
3. Choosing a target system
4. Finding the sanction
5. Choosing a resource
6. Deciding how receptive the target system will be
7. Deciding which level of intervention will be used
8. Intervening the objective of the intervention
9. Choosing the strategy and type of intervention
10. Identifying the previous advocacy method's successfulness