Designing Through Trauma
A Free Somatic & Trauma-Informed Session for Interior Designers
This free session is an introduction to trauma-informed, somatic awareness specifically for interior designers.
Not clinical.
Not heavy.
Not theoretical.
Practical. Grounded. Applicable.
And completely created for YOUR field. (Which also happens to be mine!)
What We’ll Cover
• How trauma responses show up in design projects (fight, flight, freeze, fawn — in real life scenarios)
• Why collective trauma changes client behaviour — and our own
• Simple nervous system regulation tools you can use during meetings, conflict, delays, and high-pressure moments
• How the physical environment affects regulation (and how to design with this in mind)
• Protecting your own capacity so you don’t carry everyone else’s stress home
Why This Matters Now
We are working in a post-war nervous system reality.
Clients are more sensitive.
Budgets feel heavier.
Uncertainty runs deeper.
And many of us are more exhausted than we admit.
Understanding what is happening physiologically gives you:
Deeper understanding of what is going on in yourself
• More calm in difficult conversations
• Less personalisation of client reactions
• Clearer boundaries
• Better leadership under pressure
• And homes that genuinely support healing and recovery - not just aesthetics
This is about sustainability - for your clients, and for you.
Who This Is For
English-speaking interior designers who:
• Feel a greater emotional weight
• Are navigating heightened client stress
• Want to reduce burnout and reactivity
• Are curious about nervous system-informed design
• Believe homes should support wellbeing, not just look beautiful
What This Is Not
This is not therapy.
This is a place to bash clients or colleagues.
Not political.
It is a professional development space - offered freely - because the season we’re in requires deeper tools.
The Invitation
If you are designing in a traumatised culture, you deserve to understand what that means.
Join us!
Learn practical tools - Design with awareness.
And leave with something you can use immediately.
Register below to save your place.
Spaces are limited to keep it personal and interactive.
The last two years have changed us.
We have lived through collective trauma - and at the same time, we have been designing homes for people who have lived through it too.
That matters.
Because trauma doesn’t just live in the mind.
It lives in the body.
It shows up in communication, decision-making, overwhelm, conflict, budget stress, delays, perfectionism, burnout - and in the way clients attach to their homes.
As designers, we are not therapists.
But we hold spaces for others every day.
And if we don’t understand what’s happening in the nervous system - ours and theirs - we risk absorbing stress, escalating tension, or burning out quietly.
While I’ve been on ‘relocation’ I’ve trained in Somatic, trauma informed coaching and neuroaesthetics - and am super excited to bring this dynamic back to Israel with me when we move home this summer.
I wanted to offer something to the best community out there, who I have watched with awe as you’ve continued to create Oasis’ for clients, in the midst of heartbreak.
Why choose me?
Because I’ve lived the cost of pushing through in this industry.
I know what burnout feels like when you’re managing clients’ expectations, contractor delays, budget pressure, and your own standards - all at once - And that was BEFORE the war! I know what it’s like to hold the emotional weight of a project while trying to keep everything seamless on the surface.
And I’ve learned, the hard way, how easily capable, driven designers lose themselves while trying to hold it all together.
The work I offer isn’t theoretical. It’s been shaped in real projects, real conflict, real homes. Alongside study and training, I’ve developed a trauma-informed approach that weaves together nervous system regulation, leadership, and the environments we create.
Because the spaces we design affect regulation.
And the state we design from affects the outcome.
This isn’t about adding another thing to your to-do list. It’s about working differently - in a way that is sustainable, embodied, and aligned.
So you can lead projects with steadiness.
Support clients without absorbing everything.
And build a career that doesn’t quietly cost you your health.
For those of you who like pieces of paper and tanglible qualifications, I have:
ICF Somatic trauma informed coaching certification
ICF Internal Family Systems coaching certification
ICF Positive Psychology certification
CMI Business and Leadership L7 (MA) qualification
Nearly 10 years of coaching experience
A passion for being your cheerleader