Hi, I'm Sarah Hoffman - creator of The Hue & Hive Method.

I help people who want to feel more put together in their clothes and in their homes and lives. I support people, especially artists and creatives or people who identify as such, to make their wardrobes and spaces actually feel like them, making it easier to show up as themselves and be there for the people and animals in their lives.

The Hue & Hive Method moves through wardrobe, Color & Style, and home so the way you dress, live, and show up in the world is an accurate reflection of who you are, inside and out. Most people start in the closet and then move into color and home. If you need to start with your home, that’s great too. We can start wherever things feel most urgent or stuck. We do work by category, then by room at the end of the process.

My graduate training in counseling psychology, depth psychology, and modern analytic group work informs how I work with clients. I understand how deeply our environments, inside and out, affect how we feel and how we function. My clients are often in a major life transition, or wanting one. Many of my clients are neurodivergent, ADHD and otherwise, or have spent much of their lives feeling out of place, or are still trying to find their people or habitat in which to thrive. I structure this work to be as kind as possible to those nervous systems and brains: non-shaming, clear, and broken into pieces that are actually doable. I respect and honor individual self expression.I want to support people to have the freedom to be themselves.

I came to this work through my own closets and rooms first. Doing my full KonMari Tidy Festival back in 2017, and color work back in 2005, not only altered how my home looked, but how I saw myself, and what I was willing to say yes to. That time  included big changes in my work and in my personal life, including meeting the man who is now my husband. The more I saw the effects of the Tidy Festival completion play out in my own life, the more I wanted to offer that kind of practical, methodical transformation to other people.

The KonMari Method and Hue & Hive processes are designed to be non-shaming. We start from where you are, work with what is real in your life and home, and make decisions together at your pace. I am comfortable with the feelings that come up around clothes and home, the ones many of us feel we have to hide. We adjust, communicate, and clarify along the way. Among other proven tools and techniques, I offer what research now calls body doubling: having another person physically or virtually present while you do a task, which makes it easier to start, stay with it, and finish, so you do not have to face your closets and rooms by yourself.

What sparks joy for me is witnessing people see themselves accurately and own who they are, in their clothes, their colors, and their rooms.