The Atelier
A Studio for Creative Transformation
The Atelier is where ideas take shape through conversation, reflection, and careful craft.
I offer consultation for individuals and organizations to co-create inspired outcomes.
This work is about uncovering the essence of your vision and translating it into form.
We bring soul back into the process of making, building, and becoming so that what you create not only works, but feels true.
Whether you're an artist, an entrepreneur, a creative organization, or a mission-driven leader, I help ground your vision in clarity, strategy, and soul.
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An Embodied Methodology
At the heart of The Atelier is The Cycle of Impeccability, a high-touch, custom-guided methodology that weaves together intuitive visioning, strategic insight, and creative embodiment.
It’s the art of aligning your outer expression with your inner knowing so that your work becomes an authentic reflection of who you are and what wants to move through you.
The cycle moves through four phases—dissolve, distill, awake, and embody—each one deepening your relationship with the work itself.
Together, we’ll shape your vision into a meaningful, coherent, and sustainable form that honors both the soul of your vision and the systems that sustain it.
Why impeccability?*
I view impeccability as the expression of truth.
When your vision is impeccably expressed, it becomes both magnetic and sustainable.
I come to this work as an artist and strategist walking the threshold between vision and embodiment. With 10+ years of experience helping creative leaders and visionaries give shape to their most purposeful ideas, all while navigating my own cycles of confusion, clarity, and creative rebirth, I know what it takes to bring inspiration into form without losing the magic. Impeccability, for me, is a devotional act: being in service to the creative essence that wants to express through you.
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Creative leaders, visionary artists, edgewalkers, and builders of new futures who are here to weave beauty, truth, love, and soul into the world.
→ You find yourself tangled in the in-between: too much vision, not enough structure. An artists, misfit, or mystic without a map.
→ You aim to steward a new paradigm through your work, but lack a vessel sturdy enough to carry it forward.
→ Your core longings are:To clarify the essence of your work and refine it into elegant expression
To be met at the level of soul, not just strategy
To build something authentic without compromising your vision or well-being
To be mirrored in your genius and accompanied through the obstacles along the way
This process is ideal if you:
→ Have a big vision but are unclear how to start
→ Need a resonant structure to hold your creativity
→ Are dreaming of launching (or refining) a project, offering, or body of work
→ Want a strategic partner who honors both the practical and the soulful -
This cycle is about aligning with the impeccable rhythm of your own creative intelligence and translating that into sustainable form.
Our work unfolds in four phases:
🜃 The Dissolution
We begin at the roots: dissolving confusion, clearing noise, and attuning to the essence of who you are and what you’re here to create.🜁 The Distillation
Clarity rises from the raw material: here we refine your voice, clarify your values, and craft the architecture of your message and direction.🜂 The Awakening
Where your vision comes alive: ideas crystallize into structure, systems, and tangible forms that hold and express your work in the world.🜄 The Embodiment
Integrate into an elegant whole: you move forward with clarity and purpose. Your work becomes an embodied reflection of your truth.You don’t need to know everything before we begin, you just need the spark. We’ll transform the rest.
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→ You enter with a potent but conflicted vision: threads of insight, scattered notes, a half-formed offering. Chances are you feel overwhelmed by ideas, weighed down by perfectionism, stuck in the liminal, or torn between options.
→ You exit with a clarified vision and the tools necessary to support it, including a tangible strategy that’s aligned with your truth.
Along the way, we dissolve what’s extraneous, distill what’s essential, awaken the true architecture beneath the vision, and embody it with elegance and precision.
Tools you’ll gain through this work:
Refined purpose and values articulation
Personal ecosystem maps
Values-aligned strategy filters
Customized process and workflow structures
Practices to support embodied integration and nervous system regulation
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I fancy myself an Alchemist of Essence, transmuting noise into nectar and intellect into impeccability. My role is to hold the mirror steady so your truth can find its form.
→ My core gifts and expertise:
I’m intuitively skilled in holding vision and returning to what is essential by dissolving excess
I see pattern and potential where others see fog, helping my clients trace the line from confusion to clarity
I weave sacredness into strategy, ensuring that what we build is as soulful as it is sound
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Timeline:
1–3 months, depending on the depth of your project. We’ll meet weekly with integration time between phases.
Upon purchase, I’ll be in contact to solidify your intake forms and scheduling.
*For teams and organizations: please email me to schedule a phone consult before purchase.
Tiers:
Each tier moves through the full Cycle of Impeccability. The difference is depth, scope, and tempo.
✴︎ Tier One: The Essence
Five 60min Sessions – $1,111
A potent initiation to distill a single idea or offering into clarity and form.✴︎ Tier Two: The Elixir
Ten 60min Sessions – $2,222
A deeper journey perfect for creative or vocational realignment.✴︎ Tier Three: The Gold
Fifteen 60min Sessions – $3,333
An immersive container for full-spectrum transformation. Strategy, soul, and visionary design woven into one.Single sessions (60min) for general strategic support are available at $275/session.
Payment plans available by request.
Testimonials
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Working with Nico is like working with someone who gets your vision, is excited about it, and knows how to make it better. Nico excels at helping build the correct pathways and strategies so the essence of what is being created can be free to express. She helped me with my biggest launch yet and I was able to stay sane, organized, and connected to the pulse of my creation.
Ayesha Ophelia, Digital Creative + Visionary at Humanities Unlearning Portal
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Nico, many years my junior, is who I reach out to when I need sage advice. Through deep intuitive listening she knows me and remembers who I am, sometimes better than I do. Nico is one of my favorite thought partners. Working with Nico is iterative and fun. She always reminds me to trust myself and provides just the right feedback when I am feeling stuck.
Melinda Stone, Board President at The Church of Living and Dying
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Nico bolsters your strengths while seamlessly filling in gaps to bring your vision to life in a simple, streamlined, and EASY way. Taking what can feel like an overwhelming vision and breaking it down into actionable steps. She knows how to hold your highest desires with heart and functional support, with the rare ability to truly excel at both.
Allison Strickland, Transdisciplinary and Oracular Artist
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Nico is a partner in your process. She holds space with integrity, clarity, and so much heart. She knows how to hold space for what’s hard, while also cheering you on and reminding you of your brilliance. This work was intense, and so worth it. She helped me cross a major finish line in my creative life, and I can’t thank her enough.
Connie Diletti, Artist and Filmmaker
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Nico brought her gifts of clear vision and creative problem-solving to our small arts organization. She reimagined our work to enhance our community offerings and to better support our team as workers. She has a unique ability to recognize an organization's true capacity and design systems and programs that properly reflect it.
Elena Quiñones, Assistant Director at 3 Dots Downtown
*Why impeccability: Rooted in the contemplative approach of Richard Rudd and the Gene Keys, this process draws inspiration from Gene Key 62, which evolves from the Shadow of Intellect to the Gift of Precision toward the Siddhi of Impeccability. This teaching invites us to shift from inauthentic, homogenized intellect toward embodied precision and creative alignment. By grounding in this transmission, I am living both my Life’s Work and Vocation: guiding others to embody their visions with clarity, integrity, and devotion to the cosmic essence that beats within their heart.