You (Designers) are the visual data creators for home environments. That is how YOU improve health in ways traditional medicine cannot touch.

When it comes to creating the healing, gathering, and service spaces that enhance your well-being, details matter. We begin by looking beyond the surface, starting with our Champion Quiz, to uncover your innate needs that are hardest to convey. I have created this assessment based on evidence backed neuroscience, CBT and experience as a Patient Care Volunteer at Children's Hospital, as well as our own personal and our client's experiences in restorative design to lessen the impact from injury, illness, trauma, and more.

Long before I had language to describe the design work that I did for creating these healing spaces, I was already relying on my own innate senses to go farther, dig deeper to understand the dynamics of the clients I was serving, driven by empathy and compassion to help restore beauty in a way they could appreciate, and healing in a way that only certain kinds of beauty can bring. 

I believe this why I was hired to work on producing 26+ hospitality and dressing rooms for the band U2 on the St. Louis leg of the 360 tour and helping a doctor client spec the designs for two of his Lamborghinis along with his residences over the years. In my doctor client's high stress daily life he not only runs the staff of a major hospital but he also managed a critical care center during the worst parts of COVID. 

Another client, a religious leader, dealt with a loved one's cancer diagnosis while we were working together. She later wrote that the beauty I created gave them the power to heal in the aftermath. They additionally hired me on to create a dream vacation home, from the inside out, that would allow them to focus on (and house) their large family in order to create precious memories. Having worked with them on multiple projects (including their historic home) over the years, it was delight in simple things that we connected over, woven deftly into her restorative spaces, needed to refill her well to serve her congregation: art, natural sunlight, scent, nature, materials, texture, sensation, layered lighting, bold scale, color, curiosities curated, and travels captured, air, water, sound - all of the lovely things that we use to make life manageable in the worst of times, and joyfully exquisite when everything feels like summer sunshine.

My ability to create outside the normal lines of design led me to seeing design as a vehicle for performance and well being overall, no matter the environment I was hired to create (residential, commercial, hospitality) or for whom I was creating. During my patient care volunteer service for over a year, I floated between three critical care floors, often spending time with terminally ill children and their families who were practically living at the hospital, as well as the NICU. We would pass away the hours designing the details of their own bedrooms for healing when they got to leave. Years later, my pursuit of a Neurodesign and Neuroaesthetic certification would give me words and language to describe what I had been doing with design clients already, and prove that designers have a much larger impact on health and well being than originally thought. Now, evidence backed neuroscience, including studies and projects done by Nike and NASA, are shining a light on the work we do that directly impacts vitality and quality of living for a better experience overall. We can't take away the challenges that life throws at us, but we can certainly lessen the mental and physical impact on us.

The examples of my creative designs below are just a handful of my all-time favorites, each of them telling a visual story about the clients that I had the great fortune to work with.