Haven House

A Safe Place to Heal

Haven House is a safe, relaxing group home for women undergoing partial hospitalization or intensive outpatient trauma therapy. It was designed for health, harmony, and happiness with emphases on natural materials, art immersion, and animal companionship.

Trauma-Informed Design

At Haven House, the principles of trauma-informed design guided all decisions, from the selection of raw materials to the obsessive details considered for each piece of furniture to all the features that help improve sleep quality. The results of this are everywhere you look—quite literally because care was taken to make sure a grounding object is in view from any point in the home. As a group living environment, the relationship residents have with each other here is the largest factor affecting their feelings of comfort and security, so above all else, many measures have been taken to help people get along and generally improve harmony at Haven House.

Therapeutic Modalities

Haven House is full of artistic elements designed to make residents feel better and help them overcome psychological barriers to therapy. Throughout the home, digital art displays can be easily updated to provide a constantly stimulating environment without disrupting familiarity. In common areas, works of high art have been carefully chosen and placed to communicate crucial mental health concepts, which can be all be explored on-demand. Then there is the Journey Nexus, a collaborative creative space that gives residents a place to display their own artwork surrounded and supported by the work of dozens of local female artists in support of their healing.

Animal-Supportive Architecture

Whole home design with Sanctuary Gate, five Litter Closets, features retrofit into an existing home (like Bowl Basin).