a six-month coaching experience for interior designers who care deeply about the people they design for, but are tired of their work costing them their energy, creativity, and capacity.
Rooted & Rested™ by Design
Design with care - without carrying it all.
A six-month coaching experience for interior designers who care deeply
about the people they design for, but are tired of their work costing them
their energy, creativity, and capacity.
A trauma-informed approach to sustainable interior design practice.
You already know a space can change how someone feels.
This work helps you understand the human experience behind the brief - while building the boundaries, steadiness, and sustainable capacity to lead your projects without burning out.
Good design asks a lot of you.
You are not only choosing finishes, solving layouts, and managing timelines.
You may also be holding a client’s indecision, overwhelm, changing needs, budget tension, family dynamics, competing opinions, and the pressure to make a house feel like home.
At the same time, you are expected to stay creative, responsive, commercially aware, and calm.
This is for you if:
You care deeply about how your clients feel in the spaces you create.
You often carry more of a project’s emotional weight than anyone sees.
You find client communication, indecision, revisions, or conflicting needs draining.
You want to protect your creative energy and stop bringing every project home with you.
You want to grow your business without relying on constant urgency, over-functioning, or exhaustion.
You are curious about how homes and environments influence stress, recovery, focus, and wellbeing.
You do not have to become a therapist to work more thoughtfully with people.
You just need a more supportive way to work.
A space is never just a space.
Our surroundings communicate with us all day long. Light, noise, clutter, privacy, layout, visual demand, unfinished tasks, comfort, predictability, and sensory load can all influence how settled, focused, safe, or overwhelmed a person feels.
As a designer, you are already working with these elements. Rooted & Rested gives you a practical, nervous-system-aware lens for using them more intentionally—without diagnosing clients or taking responsibility for healing them.
You are not there to fix a client’s nervous system. You are learning to design and communicate with greater awareness of the human experience of space.
The Rooted & Rested experience -through a design lens.
Rooted & Rested by Design is not a separate course or certification.
It is a designer-specific pathway into the full six-month Rooted & Rested coaching experience.
You will receive the same core support: practical work with stress, patterns, boundaries, capacity, and sustainable growth.
Alongside this, you will have a closed weekly call - only for interior designers. This is a space to explore how the work applies to your projects, clients, creative practice, and the environments you help shape.
This is for designers who want to care deeply about their clients and their work without carrying every project, every decision, and every client emotion alone.
A private space for designers.
Each week, designers within Rooted & Rested are invited to a private, designer-only call.
This is a small, supportive space to explore the real-world overlap between your own capacity and the work you do with clients.
You can bring questions, project dynamics, creative blocks, client communication challenges, or the parts of your work that feel heavier than they should.
Together, we will explore themes such as:
How stress, urgency, indecision, and competing opinions show up in client projects
Protecting your creative energy across multiple projects
Holding boundaries around timelines, scope, messages, and availability
Working with decision fatigue, sensory needs, and emotional load
Using a more thoughtful, human-centred lens in your design process
Creating a practice that can grow without depending on overwork or burnout
You will not be expected to share more than feels comfortable, diagnose your clients, or act as their therapist. This is professional coaching and reflection for designers who want their work to feel more sustainable, clear, and well-held.
Surroundings & wellness…
As an interior designer, you already know that a room can affect how someone feels.
Light, noise, clutter, privacy, layout, visual demand, texture, unfinished tasks, comfort, predictability, and a sense of control can influence whether a person feels focused, rested, overwhelmed, or able to settle. This work frames surroundings as something the nervous system is continuously scanning, affecting calm, recovery, focus, emotional safety, and creativity - it is a vital part of both the designer's and client’s - wellbeing.
What could change in your work.
Through the full Rooted & Rested programme, supported by the weekly designer calls, you may begin to:
Notice pressure earlier, before it becomes resentment, reactivity, or creative shutdown.
Understand where perfectionism, over-responsibility, urgency, or people-pleasing are affecting your work.
Stay steadier when clients are anxious, indecisive, or pulled in different directions.
Set clearer boundaries around communication, scope, timelines, decisions, and availability.
Protect your creativity and energy across several live projects.
Ask better questions about how a client wants to feel, not only what they want to buy.
Make design choices with greater awareness of sensory experience, rest, privacy, comfort, and visual load.
Offer a client experience that feels more considered, contained, and human.
The goal is not to make your ambition smaller. It is to build a design practice that can hold more responsibility, creativity, and growth - without costing you yourself.
The R.E.S.T. framework in your practice.
Rooted & Rested follows the same four-part journey as the main programme. In the designer calls, we apply each phase to the realities of running and growing a design practice.
| Phase | Core focus | In your design practice |
|---|---|---|
| Reconnect | Notice stress, body signals, patterns, and capacity | Recognise what happens in you during demanding projects, deadlines, and client conversations |
| Explore | Understand triggers, learned responses, and emotional load | Identify where urgency, perfectionism, people-pleasing, or over-responsibility shape your work |
| Stabilise | Build regulation tools, boundaries, recovery, and supportive environments | Respond more clearly during revisions, conflict, feedback, and complex decisions |
| Thrive | Create sustainable rhythms for leadership, work, and life | Build a practice that can grow without draining your creativity or wellbeing |
This is not design theory in isolation. You will be supported to apply the work to your own projects, client relationships, studio systems, and working life as you go.
What’s included
Six months of support - for you and your practice.
When you join Rooted & Rested through the designer pathway, you receive:
The complete six-month Rooted & Rested programme
Weekly live small-group coaching with women in business, leadership, and high-responsibility lives
A weekly, designer-only call
A monthly 45-minute 1:1 coaching session with Natanya
Guided work through the R.E.S.T. framework
Practical nervous-system tools, workbooks, reflection prompts, and access to the Regulation Library
Four guided audits: the Rest Test, Capacity Compass, Stability Toolkit, and Thriving Life Check-In
Support to apply the work to your own capacity, business, clients, home life, and design practice
The designer calls are included as part of the Rooted & Rested experience; they are not an extra programme or an additional fee.
About Natanya…
Created by a designer and coach.
I know design is not only visual or technical. It is relational, sensory, emotional, commercial, and deeply personal.
Alongside nearly a decade of coaching and specialised study in nervous-system support, trauma-informed practice, and neuroaesthetics, I have also run my own interior-design business. I created this pathway because I know what it is like to care deeply about the people and spaces you serve while carrying too much yourself.
You will not be asked to become a therapist, perform healing, or take responsibility for your clients’ emotional histories. Instead, you will learn a more informed, grounded way to care for your own capacity - and bring greater awareness to the environments and experiences you create.
Training and experience
ICF Somatic Trauma-Informed Coaching Certification
ICF Internal Family Systems Coaching Certification
ICF Positive Psychology Certification
CMI Business and Leadership Level 7 qualification
Nearly ten years of coaching experience
Several years running a successful interior-design business
Not ready to jump in?
That is okay!
Rooted & Rested Foundations is a $99 self-paced introduction to understanding stress, overwhelm, and practical nervous-system support.
It is not design-specific, but it gives you a useful place to begin with your own capacity, at your own pace.