Coaching - Consulting - Curating

WE GET RADICAL ABOUT THE VIBES

Where physical environments support wellness needs and goals

AboutMe

Katrina Sterling

Therapeutic Space Designer and Mindful-Nest Coach

As a mental health professional and niche interior designer, I am passionate about supporting the mental health goals of marginalized people. My journey began in the realm of mental health and housing for houseless individuals and communities. While being in the field for 12 years, I cultivated expertise as a compassionate, trauma-informed leader and unlicensed counselor.

Over the years, I’ve discovered the profound impact our environments have on emotional well-being. This insight fueled my passion for supporting people in their individual wellness journeys and designing intentional, therapeutic spaces that nurture balance, ease, creativity, and healing. Even in my personal life, I am all about curating a good vibe that is reflective of the energy that’s surrounding me within my community. The vibe is the persons not the aesthetic!

With over 2 years of professional experience in home design and 6 years of mental health therapy education. I blend the art of design with the science of mental wellness. At Sterling Sanctuaries, I’m honored to offer a holistic approach to supporting my clients at every step of the way.

My favorite part about my design work is seeing and feeling the instant hope and inspiration on my clients faces when they start envisioning their future relationship with their most intimate space…home.

Sterling Sanctuaries isn’t just a business—it’s a mission to help individuals and families create homes that feel as good as they look. Whether you’re here for guidance, inspiration, or transformation, I’m here to empower you to foster a space peace and support.

Let’s create your sanctuary that reflects your vibe, together.

Our Services

  • Research tell us (resource page coming soon) that attachment bonds happen with our home-places and at Sterling Sanctuaries we believe in utilizing those bonds to serve our wellness needs . The outcomes for the goals you set, can be supported through collaborative goal setting and building intentional internal structures. You are accountable for your own outcomes, let us and your environment help inspire, empower, and encourage you along the way. If you’re feeling stagnant in your wellness practices, need support in reaching your goals, or if you are wanting to bring more mindfulness and intention to the structures supporting your goals … this is for you!

  • Environments have a strong influence on our mental health and our individual experiences impact the way we attach and relate to our environments. At Sterling Sanctuaries we believe any space can be a therapeutic space! We believe that, from start to finish, the design process must have a person-centered and trauma informed approach. Through environmental psychology, evidence-based designs, common psychotherapeutic interventions and strategies, and the Person-Environment Occupational model you can create an empowering and transformative experience both internally and externally for your client. Intimate spaces can be a supportive tool in the way we, as humans, connect deeply with ourselves and our emotions. Through education in counseling interventions, therapeutic space design, motivational interviewing for client needs, and strategies for rapport building we transform. Book a consultation to learn how to create supportive spaces for your client and why its important! This service is for you if;

    • You are an interior designer, or event planner, and would like to add more avenues of support for your client’s emotional, mental, and spiritual wellness through space design. Consult with Sterling Sanctuaries to expand your vision.

    • You are a mental health or health care professional and would like consultation about psychotherapeutic space for your clients to enhance their safety, comfort, and experience. Ultimately, supportive strategies to improve rapport with your client and create a supportive environment for your client that encourages emotional safety and comfort.

  • Don’t want to do the decorating for your zen den, wellness event, or productivity/professional space? Sterling Sanctuaries believes any place can be transformed into a sanctuary. Our Wellness Space curation services create intimate spaces that provide foundational care and a support structure. Sterling Sanctuaries can transform spaces into becoming a kindred place and companion that works alongside therapeutic, wellness, and life goals. Your space can look and be anything you need it to be! I offer support in locating that need and translating it into emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and/or physically supportive elements. We use neuroaesthetics, mental health counseling intervention frameworks, evidence-based design research, and a person-centered and trauma informed approach to design. Creating a tailored space that reflects those experiencing it, is what I do! Let’s create a vibe!