Consulting and creative services

I help make designs, products and spaces that are socially supportive, developmentally appropriate, innovative and elegant. As a subject matter expert on supportive birth, care, motherhood, early learning, I help creatives and entrepreneurs hone their vision into valuable designs, spaces, and products.

My goal is to: work with urban planners and architects on making socially impactful housing and play spaces, and “child friendly cities”

I am also an empathetic listener. I relish opportunities to conduct stakeholder interviews that can be translated into designs to help people live more supported, dignified and joyful lives.

I provide custom, client-centred support, copywriting, written resources, subject matter research and expertise to help individuals and organisations reach their goals, and build something valuable for all adults and children.

Clients come to me for help with:

Creative

  • Creating compelling brand or project copy

  • Naming and titling

  • Defining the look and feel of a space, project or brand

  • Choosing materials

  • Creating a compelling story around a project’s vision

Strategy

  • Audience identification and definition

  • Stakeholder research, interviews and needs identification

  • Prioritising and refining ideas

  • Refining goals and/or go-to-market strategy

  • Competitive analysis

  • Subject Matter Expertise

  • Supportive pregnancy, births and early childhood

  • Postpartum healing and social support

  • Matrescence, or the shift in identity in becoming a mother

  • Caring for newborns, infants, toddlers

  • Attachment theory

  • Verbal and nonverbal communication between parents and children

  • Optimal housing needs of carers and children

  • Children’s transportation issues and opportunities

  • RIE®, Pikler® and the philosophy of respectful care

  • Play as a psychological, pedagogical and physical necessity

  • Developmentally appropriate, aesthetic and interesting play objects, toys and spaces for babies and young children

  • Gross motor development, movement and milestones

  • Design for babies with special needs and disability

  • Trauma-informed care

  • Theories and pedagogies relating to early childhood and pedagogy