About Me

I’m Antonia Clews, a coach and creative. I’m passionate about the power of space and environment to affect our mind set and how we feel. As a qualified personal change coach, I work with clients through my practice Project Self to explore their sense of self, values and beliefs, what may be holding them back and what will support them to make the changes they want for themselves and their life.

I started my career in the early ’90s working with the homeless and as a housing advisor. I later qualified with a 1st class degree in Interior Architecture in 2003. I have renovated four of my own houses in the last 16 years. This is my creative expression. I love working on projects hands on and making my vision materialise; the big ideas and the small practical details and problems.

I moved to Frome in Spring 2015 and converted a three bedroom house into a one bedroom home over a period of six months. I observed the emotionally destabilising process of the transition to a new home; the affect of chaos, relocating to a new community, letting go of long-held possessions and the leaving behind of my previous home of 7 years which I had loved but outgrown. This experience and how it affected my sense of self crystallised the idea for Living Space Consultancy, which brings my two passions together to offer a specific service.

About Living Space Consultancy 

I founded Living Space Consultancy on the belief that our relationship with our environment and our deeper feelings around our home in relation to how we are in ourself can be overlooked both within coaching or therapeutic approaches, and interior design. When working with coaching clients I often find that issues they are exploring around their self development and growth can be reflected in their sense of home, how they are living within it and in relationships within it. I devised the concept of space coaching to bring together design knowledge and theories around the felt experience of space and psychology.

I am often asked if Living Space Consultancy is based on Feng Shui. Feng Shui is an ancient and specific Chinese system devised to create harmonious surroundings which bring prosperity, happiness and health. It was developed through interpreting the hidden forces and energies of the universe in relation to environmental planning. The principles which Living Space Consultancy shares with Feng Shui are the recognition that a natural balance requires both movement and stillness and the objects with which we surround ourself and how we chose to arrange our home affects us. This is particularly in relation to where there is a sense of stagnation in our space; addressing this and making changes will have a positive affect on our life.

I look forward to hearing from you. Antonia