How I Work

The Embodied Identity Method is a guided process for developing personal style through a deeper understanding of how you see yourself and relate to what you wear. Here, we build a wardrobe that feels authentic, inhabitable, and reflective of who you are as a person.

Within this work, style is approached as a language. Clothing holds meaning—shaped by experiences of safety, belonging, interests, identity, and the environments we have moved through. Your personal history becomes the foundation from which we understand your existing relationship with clothing: what you are drawn to, what you avoid, what feels natural, and what may have developed in response to something outside of your own preferences.

From this foundation, we identify the elements of style that are genuinely yours. You are guided in understanding your preferences and developing your taste, rather than being given a predetermined aesthetic to follow. Taste here is not assumed to be innate; it is a skill that can be developed through observation, understanding, and practice.

We then bring that personal understanding together with the principles of traditional styling. Proportion, silhouette, color, texture, scale, balance, and composition become practical tools for translating your preferences into clothing. Rather than applying styling rules to you from the outside, we use these principles to understand why certain choices work for you and how they can be adapted to your individual identity, body, lifestyle, and vision.

With this framework in place, we refine your existing wardrobe by evaluating what you already own—keeping what aligns with your developing vision and letting go of what no longer supports it. With your lifestyle, needs and preferences in mind, I then provide curated recommendations to thoughtfully expand and strengthen your wardrobe.

Over time, this method refines not only your style, but your ability to understand yourself within it. As confidence in your daily self-expression grows, you begin to recognize what works, why it works, and how to continue evolving your style independently. The goal is not to create a wardrobe that follows a formula, but to develop the knowledge and self-understanding to create one that continues to feel like you.