What if, growing up, home was a place of struggle, fear, and chaos? What if the word “home” brought to you a sense of brokenness and lack of peace…a feeling of insecurity and instability…a reminder of an unsupported childhood?

The process of creating a home that is peaceful, organized, and mirrors thriving and can help reduce shame around perceptions of home and homemaking, connect your environment with trauma triggers in order to reduce distress, integrate your inner and outer worlds, and create a haven that reflects wholeness. Working with design and organization professionals, I can help you use your own home as a process-oriented catalyst for healing.

Therapeutic Home services are an addition to trauma therapy. During therapy, we work to identify feelings you have about your home, how these feelings are related to your history, and how to use creating your living space as a symbolic passage through traumatic grief.

Trauma informed design also explores ways the built environment can support healing from trauma within the community as well. Schools, hospitals, playgrounds, residential treatment facilities can take into account the people who use those spaces every day.

Design Collaboration

Imagine having someone on your design team who understands the physical effects of trauma and the importance of environment in creating a sense of safety and calm. Imagine being able to use evidence-based design practices proven to reduce stress and improve mental health outcomes for people who use the space. Imagine creating spaces that not only carry the design standards and aesthetic of your firm, but that also uphold human dignity, choice, connection, and safety of people who inhabit the space.

Services offered:

-Consultation with staff to encourage a trauma-sensitive approach and co-create design boards for projects

-Educational presentations to teams on the principles of trauma-informed design

-Lead target populations through creative activities which help them contribute to the design process

-Contribute evidence-based design principles related to mental health and human flourishing as part of an interdisciplinary team

Member: Trauma-Informed Design Society