Designing Wellness

Good design elevates the user’s experience from pure functionality to meaning, purpose, comfort, and joy. To interact with a well designed space or object can elicit a sense of familiarity and resonance, an “ah-ha” moment when you feel connected and awed. As a former residential architect, I combined my client’s dreams and needs with jurisdictional regulations, environmental constraints, and evocative forms and materials to create houses that were not only beautiful, but resonated emotionally and psychologically with the homeowners to structure their best futures.

I remember when I first entered a Frank Lloyd Wright house, I felt a deep connection and peace with the space. The rich wood panels, wide expenses of glass with views to the trees beyond, and low ceilings felt deeply human. I learned then that space could be designed to make the flow of life easy and spacious, warm and promising.

As a Health and Wellness Coach, I similarly co-create space with my clients that opens them to a future aligned with their dreams and values. It is a design process that brings together my client’s hopes for their wellness with their rich evocations of past successes and the supportive environments and people around them to elicit a beautiful present and future. “Ah-ha” moments arise when they realize insights about themselves that will navigate them toward a more attuned, whole path. I synthesize my clients’ stories into a life optimized to take advantage of their intelligence and authenticity. We design habits that make them feel vital and meaningful, deeply alive and connected to the world.

Both architecture and coaching integrate elements of the present and past to structure an optimistic belief in the future.