Being an interior designer is an intimate thing. We are invited into the most sacred places of our clients’ worlds. Our homes represent so much more than just furniture and a place to sleep.. Our homes are an extension of our “self”. Your space is a reflection of you.Throw in the added components of money, partners, perhaps children, opinionated parents, friends, Pinterest, and Instagram and you have a situation that has the potential to be fraught with tension, conflict, and most certainly, BIG FEELINGS. So many feelings.

When we imagine our perfect spaces our conscious thoughts are intertwined with yearnings, long-held dreams, values and hopes. Many of these we may never have recognized, let alone analyzed or put into words. There may be associations with safety, nostalgia, success, status, peace or escape (to name a very few) that are not easily translated into an environment but make up an invaluable component to the experiential nature of a space. In navigating the complex and nuanced negotiation through the design process there is always the potential to run through the full spectrum of emotion. Our role as your interior designer extends far beyond creating beautiful and functional spaces within your desired budget; we also serve as a mediator, aesthetic translator, coach, sounding board, hand-holder, encourager, hugger, counselor and fiscal responsibility advocate.

With this, a new industry is conceived: Interior Therapy.

What an honor to be invited into the guts, closets, bedrooms and embarrassing, messy places in people's lives. To create inspiration and beauty for you, to improve the functionality of your spaces in a way that speaks to your values, aesthetics and soul is to genuinely improve your lives. I love this. No, I am not dramatizing although, I may or may not have a penchant for it. I believe that our physical environments have the power to inspire, motivate, calm, nurture, and elevate our lives.

Our environments also have the power to denigrate our enjoyment and productivity. This is where I enter the picture. As your Interior Therapist/Designer I create a vision and plan to not only alleviate visual chaos, discord and counter-productivity but to improve your spaces with functionality and beauty in a curated and personal way that not only fulfills the utilitarian component of the scope, but also speaks to you and fills you with delight.

It is my job to decipher and translate what it is that you really want, teasing out the unspoken that is woven within the words. This requires knowing you, understanding you. Be warned. This frequently leads to actual friendship. I LOVE my clients. When you establish trust and are able to understand what makes your client tick, you never know what kind of magic might transpire. I have a very dear client whom I have worked with on three projects now. We have spent hours and weeks and months together. This past year we showed up to a site meeting wearing the exact same outfit. Down to the hairdo. Twinning. Talk about being in each others’ heads. That was the best!

On a final note, here is a photo gallery of my "therapy dog", Ruby, playing her part as a decorative item in my house and doing her part to bring comfort and joy to my people. Let me clarify that she is not my "therapy dog" merely because she provides therapeutic and restorative energy to the lives of my people, but additionally because owning her inspires me to go to therapy. She is a narcissist. Lol.