The Process

I’m available in-person on the south Oregon coast for people referred to me by my clients. 

I’m available via Zoom anywhere you live or work.

• We start with a tour of the space, system, or collection where you want to begin, accompanied by your description of how you use it – or how you want to use it.

• We’ll talk over what you appreciate about the way it's working, and what bugs you about it. And I’ll ask other questions to clarify what changes you want to see. 

• After that meeting and before our next one, I may list or sketch out any major changes I see that might be helpful for you to consider. (This is billed hourly, see below.) I send them to you so you can start thinking about how that might work for you.

• Next time we meet, we’ll start going through a section: a pile of items or a closet or a stack of boxes. For each item, you’ll decide: 

Keep • Gift • Donate • Recycle • Sell • Free Pile • Trash

This is often a somewhat spontaneous decision, which seems to surprise some of my clients. But you probably already know deep inside.

You’ll also find that this process can go far more easily when you’re working next to a supportive, non-judgemental person! We are often our harshest critic. I can help you quiet that voice - or at least set it aside and identify your deeper sense of what’s best for you.

And that’s the trick: When you make the changes that feel right to you, it feels good! And it seems to help the changes stick.

• Then we “rinse and repeat” - we work on a different area, or a different category of items. And there’s need to do it all at once - you set the pace.

Let’s be real: Yes, it can take practice, putting things away in the same place. That part is up to you.

And as you live with the changes, you might find ways and places that work even better for you.