Spatial Design
Creating a space asks a lot of you.
It takes vision, energy, resources, decisions, and a willingness to navigate uncertainty and change.
You may be:
Imagining a future home, community or work space and wanting to clarify your needs before making design decisions.
Entering a build or renovation with a partner, family, or community and wanting to establish shared vision.
Taking on a project yourself and wanting support as decisions begin to unfold.
Already further along in the process and looking for support that holds both the practical realities of bringing a design project to life and the emotional, relational, and personal experience of moving through it.
My work helps you step back, clarify what matters, explore what’s possible, and find your way forward.
My approach
Design is never only about what we are creating.
It’s also about how we move through the process of creating it.
Building or renovating involves much more than practical decisions. The spaces we create shape the rhythms of our daily lives, our relationships, and our sense of belonging. Creating them brings together questions of values, priorities, change, and how we translate ideas into physical reality, alongside the practical demands of ongoing decisions, budgets, timelines, and uncertainty. How we move through that process matters too.
Conventional design processes tend to focus on the practical and technical side of a project, leaving less space for the emotional and lived experience of going through it.
My work holds both.
I bring together design thinking with reflective and creative approaches to support both the practical decisions involved in a project and the deeper experience of bringing a vision into form.
Beginning with what matters most — the needs, values, and intentions guiding the work, and how you want to live — creates a stronger foundation for the decisions that follow.
How I can support your project
Start developing a vision for your project with intention.
Discover the design potential of a new or existing space.
Get integrative support at any stage in the process.
Start wherever you are. Combine offerings as your project evolves.
Imagining Your Future Space
A starting point for clarifying what matters, exploring what you are drawn to, and developing a vision for your future space.
For people in the early stages of imagining a home, community space or workplace, and wanting to begin with greater clarity and intention.
Through guided, reflective, and art-based exercises, you’ll begin to explore how you want to live, what matters to you, and what your space needs to support. Rather than relying only on verbal questions or design language, the process uses different creative ways of engaging with ideas, qualities, and possibilities, helping surface things that may be difficult to articulate directly.
This process can help you develop:
A clearer understanding of your needs, values, priorities, and how you want to live
An initial exploration of the spatial qualities, materials, textures, and atmosphere you are drawn to
A tangible connection between how you want to feel in your space and how the space can support that
The process creates an intentional starting point for your spatial design journey, giving you space to pause, imagine, and begin shaping a vision before moving into more concrete design decisions.
Single Session (2 hours) — $290
Three-Session Series (3 × 2 hours) — $850
Spatial Walkthrough + Design Direction
Explore the potential of an existing space or future project site.
For people who want a fresh perspective on how a space could be improved or developed.
Together, we walk through your space or property and consider layout, flow, function, atmosphere, materials, and lived experience.
This session combines observation, conversation, and conceptual design thinking to generate early direction, identify opportunities, and uncover possibilities that may be difficult to see on your own.
This session may include:
A guided walkthrough of your space, in person or virtually
Real-time spatial feedback and conceptual brainstorming
Discussion of questions, challenges, or decisions you are currently navigating
Early design ideas and possibilities
A follow-up summary sketch or concept notes
Starting at $470
Each project is unique. Pricing depends on scope, location, and the level of preparation or follow-up involved.
Further Design + Process Support
Support for the practical and personal experience of creating a space, at whatever point you are in the process.
For people already moving through a design, renovation or construction project who want support as they navigate decisions, change, and the disruption to everyday life.
Sessions can help you:
Regain perspective when things feel overwhelming — step back from budgets, timelines and details, sort through competing priorities, and see what needs your attention
Work through a difficult design decision — when you’re unsure what feels right or need another perspective to move forward
Reconnect with your original vision — when the realities of the project have pulled you away from what you initially wanted to create
Stay grounded through the process — making room for reflection, creativity, and a sense of connection to what you’re creating
Depending on what you need, this might mean expressive arts therapy to support the emotional experience of the process, hands-on creative work that brings focus and presence to the process while connecting you with the space you’re creating, or practical support with design decisions and next steps.
$145/hour
From vision to reality.
A vision rarely arrives fully formed. It develops as you explore what matters, encounter possibilities, make decisions, and respond to what emerges along the way.
My role is to create opportunities to pause, explore, and engage with the process from different angles, helping you move from an initial sense of what you want toward a space that reflects how you actually want to live, while remaining engaged with the experience along the way.