The world doesn't stop for older adults.
It just stops designing for them.
I work with individuals, families, and organizations to change that. Through psychology, memory, and design, and 30 years of paying close attention.
About
I came to this work the long way.
Through media psychology, social gerontology, creative practices, and almost two decades as a licensed therapist working with individuals and families. But also through 30 years of watching what happens when someone arrives at a threshold they didn't see coming. A diagnosis. A parent who suddenly seems smaller. A partner who still knows every word to a song they heard at 22 but can't find their keys.
What I kept noticing wasn't a lack of care. It was a lack of consideration — the environments, the language, the systems, all built for a different person, not through malice but simply without thinking.
That gap is solvable. The work of solving it has become my practice. I call it Worldholding: building conditions for people to be fully held through change. Not by “fixing” them but by addressing what’s around them.
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Where do you want to start?
Individuals & Families
Remembering Together
Some families wait for the right moment to capture what matters. Then the moment passes.
Remembering Together is a practice built around that reality. It comes in three forms: a self-guided digital experience for families ready to begin now, facilitated sessions with Dr. Julie Watson that end with something made, and an immersive installation in development where a community remembers together. The facilitated work results in a written record, an object composition, or a short film — something tangible you can hold.
Grounded in reminiscence therapy, narrative psychology, and object work. Unlike a scrapbook or a family questionnaire, it is designed to help people be genuinely present to one another while there is still time.
The digital guide is available now at $67. Facilitated sessions and the installation are available by inquiry.
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Speaking & Workshops
I speak where psychology, memory, design, and aging meet. The goal isn't to leave people with more information. It's to leave them seeing the people in front of them differently. The kind of seeing that stays.
Available for keynotes, conference sessions, professional development, and practitioner training across four signature talks.
Organizations & Institutions
Consulting
The environments, programs, and systems we build around aging communicate something to the people moving through them. Most send the wrong message. Not through malice. Just through not quite thinking it through.
I work with organizations through a Worldholding Assessment — examining what their environments, language, and systems actually communicate about who belongs, and designing toward genuine recognition of the people they serve. I also consult with productions on how aging and cognitive change are represented on screen, on stage, and in print.
Individuals & Families
Guided Support
For people standing at the threshold of something they didn’t entirely choose. Your own identity quietly shifting. A parent or partner whose world is changing in ways that are hard to name. Often all of it at once.
Nine sessions over three months. Structured and grounded in clinical practice, but it won’t feel like it. It will feel like someone finally had time for the real conversation.
Writing
Nostalgia
Forward.
I write about memory, aging, culture, and the small things that turn out to mean something. A film scene. An object left behind. A design choice nobody questioned. The moment a conversation shifts how you see someone you love.
If you’ve ever found yourself thinking about aging differently after a completely unrelated conversation — this is for that.
Every conversation starts simply.
Whether you're navigating something personal, looking for a speaker, or wondering what your organization could do differently, start here.
I read everything.
Studio
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