The reason some rooms feel calm and others don't
Rachel Jackson designs homes and spaces around how people actually experience them: light, sound, texture, and where the furniture sits. She works with families on their own homes, and with hotels, conferences, and design firms on theirs.
Two ways to work with Rachel
For organizations
Speaking, team training, and design consulting for hotels, conferences, design firms, and CEU programs. Your audience leaves with changes they can make, and your space works for more of the people in it.
Bring Rachel to your organizationFor your own home
Full Service Design, where Rachel and her team handle the whole project from the plan through the final styling. Austin local or virtual.
Currently booking for winter 2026.
Start a projectRather work through it yourself? Start with a course or take the free style quiz.
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Speaking & organizational consulting
Bring the sensory layer to your team, your conference, or your property
Hospitality design, international design festivals, and clinical ADHD conferences are all arriving at the same question right now, from very different directions: how does a space actually affect the people inside it? Rachel has been working on that question for over twenty years. Sessions run as keynotes, fireside chats, hands-on workshops, IDCEC-certified continuing education, and internal training.
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- Designing for Different Minds: The Future of Neuroinclusive Hospitality Fireside chat with Andrea Keller of 4D Design · HD Expo + Conference, Las Vegas · May 2026
- Small Changes, Big Impact: Designing Neuroinclusive Spaces Without Major Renovation Fireside chat, plus a hands-on workshop, The Sensory Audit · Neuroplaces, London · September 15 to 17, 2026
- Your Home Is Dysregulating You: A Sensory-Friendly Design Workshop 2026 International Conference on ADHD, Baltimore · December 3 to 5, 2026
Rachel builds the session around your space and your audience rather than running a stock deck. In Las Vegas that meant hotel lighting and acoustics for a hospitality audience. In London it's a workshop that walks a room through auditing glare, echo, and visual clutter in spaces they already manage. In Baltimore it's a sensory home audit for people living with ADHD. Whatever the format, people leave with specific changes they can make.
She has taught this approach to designers in twenty-two countries and trained through the Institute for Challenging Disorganization.
Selected work
Rooms built around how the people in them live
From the people who live there
“Three small changes made mornings so much easier.”
Design client
“I didn't realize how much our lighting was affecting sleep.”
Design client
“Finally, a space where I can actually focus.”
Design client
“There are a lot of things that say ‘sensory friendly’ and usually lend towards hypersensitivity but I am blown away that you are already addressing design differences for those who desire more sensory input too. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!”
CS · ADHD Coach, Neurodiverse Mom
Courses
Learn the method and use it on your own rooms
The same approach Rachel uses with private clients, broken into steps you can work through at your own pace and on your own budget.
Rachel's six-step framework, from the first idea through to final styling. Works for one room or a whole house.
Layout, scale, palette, and a full furniture plan before you spend anything. Self-paced, with floor planning and space mapping included.
$197 on its ownThe Style Quiz takes about a minute. Rachel's vendor list and the living room furniture size and scale guide are free too.
Every one of these is included in The Home Design Lab.
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Work on your own home, with Rachel in your corner
Every course above is included, along with the room-by-room guides and a live Q&A every month where you can ask the question you'd otherwise sit on for six months. The Living Room Masterclass alone is $197 on its own.
$17.99 a month for founding members
Locked in for life, limited to the first 25 members. After that it's $29.99.
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About Rachel
She noticed the sensory layer before the industry had a name for it
Partly because she has ADHD and had been designing around her own experience for years before it became a specialty. Rachel holds IDCEC certification and trained through the Institute for Challenging Disorganization, and she's taught this approach to designers in twenty-two countries.
Rachel Jackson Design is a neuroinclusive interior design studio based in Austin, Texas, working with families on their homes and with organizations on the spaces their people spend time in.
Working one to one
Designer By Your Side
Hourly help when you want a designer's eye on one specific decision. $150 per hour, Austin local or virtual.
Virtual Design
A full professional plan you carry out yourself, delivered within two weeks. Works anywhere.
Sensory Home Assessment
A structured walkthrough of how your home is actually working, with a plan you can act on in stages.