266 - Anita Yokota on Using Interior Design as a Therapy Tool

The Verywell Mind Podcast

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Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Mental Health, Education

5 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Your home environment and mood are connected. So, take a moment and look at your home surroundings. How does your home make you feel? Anxious? Sad? Cagey? Whatever emotion just popped up for you likely has something to do with the interior of your home. Even if some negative feelings come up for you—fear not!—because we can use interior design as a therapy tool. In fact, therapist-turned-interior-design Anita Yokota swears by it! In this episode, Yokota teaches us how to identify the emotional climate of our homes and the interior design changes we can make to our homes look—and feel better. For more info visit: verywellmind.com/podcast The Verywell Mind Podcast is produced by: Minaa B., LMSW - Host Kristen Altmeyer - GM/VP, Verywell Mind Ayana Underwood - Associate Editor, Verywell Mind Jeremiah McVay - Podcast Producer/Editor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Very Well Mind podcast. I'm Mina B, and I'm a licensed social worker, mental health
0:16.8	educator, and author of owning our struggles. I'll be chatting with experts, wellness advocates,
0:23.3	and others about the power of community care in improving your mental health. We'll delve
0:28.7	into topics such as friendships, managing difficult relationships, and most importantly,
0:34.5	how to cultivate belonging and support in our lives. Now, let's jump into today's
0:40.3	episode. Anita Yacota is a licensed marriage and family therapist turned interior designer,
1:00.7	an author of the best-selling book Home Therapy.
1:04.7	She believes design and wellness go hand in hand in our homes.
1:09.7	Domino named Anita's site the best new design blog in 2017,
1:14.8	and her work has been featured on Good Morning America, My Domain, Apartment Therapy, Real Simple,
1:22.3	Oprah Daily, and many others. Anita lives in Southern California with her husband, their three daughters,
1:28.9	and their dogs, Teddy and Tatertot, or Tate, as Anita calls him, because she lost the family
1:35.1	name vote.
1:40.8	Hi, Anita. Welcome to the show.
1:44.0	Thank you so much, Mina. I'm so excited to be here with you and your listeners.
1:48.6	Of course. I'm so excited to have you as well because I am so intrigued by the work that you do and me being a social worker and former therapist.
1:59.4	Knowing a little more about you and your work has been so
2:02.8	eye-opening and wonderful. And so I'm really excited to honestly just jump into this conversation
2:08.3	because I'm really eager to know about your transition from being a licensed marriage and
2:15.6	family therapist into becoming an interior designer.
2:19.2	Well, it's a fun and adventurous road that I've been on. Like you mentioned, I've been a licensed
2:25.6	marriage and family therapist for 20 years. And so in those sessions and my face time with
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