Services
The work looks different depending on where you are.
Whether you're a family navigating memory change, an organization rethinking how it holds the people in its care, or a production asking harder questions about how aging is represented โ the starting point is always the same: where you are right now.
The Practice
Most approaches ask what is being lost.
This one asks what can be held.
Every service I offer โ whether for a family, a hospital, or a film production โ is rooted in the same question: what would it take for this person to feel genuinely held?
That question is the foundation of everything I do. I call it Worldholding.
That shift changes everything about how the work is done.
Self
Instrument: Story
The sense that a life still holds together, even as memory, roles, or capacities shift. Narrative is how people stay legible to themselves and to the people who love them.
Relationships
Instrument: Sense
The people who hold someone known. The objects, music, rituals, and shared references that carry meaning between people when words alone can't carry it.
Environment
Instrument: Both
The spaces and systems that communicate, before anyone speaks, whether someone belongs. What a room says. What a protocol implies. Both are sensory questions before they are design questions.
Specialist Practice
Memory Experience Design
My specialist practice within Worldholding, for families and institutions navigating cognitive change specifically. It draws on memory science, neuroaesthetics, narrative psychology, and family systems thinking โ designed for what remains, not only what is lost.
For Families & Individuals
The most important conversations deserve a place to begin.
Whether you're navigating memory change with a parent, sitting with questions about legacy and identity, or simply sensing that something important deserves more attention โ this is where we start.
Flagship Offering
Remembering Together
A structured practice for holding someone's story before urgency arrives. Available in three forms:
Digital guide โ self-guided, available now at $67
Guided Remembering โ facilitated sessions, by inquiry
Immersive installation โ in development
One to One
Guided Support
For people standing at the threshold of something they didn't entirely choose. Nine sessions over three months โ structured, grounded in clinical practice, but it will feel like someone finally had time for the real conversation.
Start a conversation โFor Organizations & Institutions
The gap between intention and the design that actually delivers.
Most organizations working with older adults have the intention. The gap isn't motivation. It's methodology. I work with organizations to close that gap โ in the environments, the language, and the systems that surround the people they serve.
01 ยท Healthcare & Clinical Settings
The gap between what care should feel like and what the system makes possible.
Clinical environments are built for efficiency. That matters. But the person moving through them is not a protocol โ they're in the middle of one of the most disorienting transitions of their life. I work with patient experience teams, palliative care programs, memory care units, and clinical staff to close that gap.
02 ยท Memory Care & Palliative Care
The people in these environments are still entirely present. The systems around them often are not designed for that.
Objects put away when someone moves in. History untold because there's no structure for telling it. I work with memory care facilities and palliative care programs to build conditions where residents and patients remain recognizable โ to themselves, to the people who love them, and to the staff who care for them.
For Productions & Media
The stories being told about aging are making claims. Most of them are wrong in the same ways.
Productions make constant choices about how aging and cognitive change are represented. Those choices are not neutral. Most that get it wrong do so the same way: the character exists to show decline rather than to be fully themselves. The interior experience of the person is treated as inaccessible rather than differently expressed.
Not sensitivity reading. Not accuracy review. An examination of whether the story holds the people it depicts โ and what it costs when it doesn't.
Engagements can begin at development, at script, during production, or as an ongoing advisory relationship.
Speaking & Workshops
The goal isn't to leave people with more information. It's to leave them seeing differently.
I speak where psychology, memory, design, and aging meet. The kind of seeing that stays with a room long after the talk ends.
Available for keynotes, conference sessions, professional development, and practitioner training.
Talk 01
The Invitation
Designing for the people the world stopped building for โ and what becomes possible when we start.
Talk 02
Storyfeeling: Why We Remember What We Feel
The layer beneath story where connection actually happens โ and how to design for it.
Talk 03
How Can an Object See You?
Objects as witnesses in the work of being fully held โ what they carry that language alone cannot.
Talk 04
Nostalgia Forward
Using the past as a navigation instrument โ how nostalgia orients us toward what we want to build next.
Studio
Reading