What Does a Professional Organizer Do?

riseaboveboise
Mar 5, 2018
2 min read

"My kitchen is a mess, I can't find anything to wear, we can't park in the garage, my spouse and I are fighting like crazy because our house is a mess, or my house is a mess and I don't know where to start." Sound familiar? Our clients call asking for help because they don't know what to do with the mess they have created. Many are ashamed because they think they are the only ones "this bad". The sad thing is our society as a whole is disorganized, we all hold onto things for just a little too long, and we can all use help straightening one part of our lives or another.

The best way to understand what professional organizer does is to understand what a professional organizer doesn't do.

First, professional organizers are not resigned to sorting items into boxes. Yes, a large amount of clientele initially call professional organizers because one area of their home or another is so cluttered with things they don't know where to start. Many clients are so overwhelmed with the clutter that is consuming their space that they need someone to help get started.

Professional organizers don't spend most of their time assisting hoarders. Remember, those suffering from "hoarding" don't want the assistance they desperately need because deep down they have made an agreement with fear of lack. Most people who are considered hoarders, are holding onto things they don't need, and in their right mind don't want. However, many hoarders have suffered from great poverty and fear that the things they have are the only things they will ever obtain. Breaking with the fear of lack is incredibly difficult, because fear is created in the mind, and this fear runs the life of the hoarder.

From the point of view of this particular professional organizer, everyone has a bit of a hoarding problem, everyone. Whether it be clothing, decor, or a storage room that desperately need cleaned out.

Organizers aren't hired by lazy housewives. Many of our clients work full-time jobs, and have a side hustle to boot. Those that seek the help of a professional organizer range from a single father who owns his own business, a young woman starting her own hostel, a corporation focused on SEO marketing, a retired hairdresser, a couple going through a sticky divorce, and a mother of teenage twins.

What does a Professional Organizer do? In short, a Professional Organizer work to develop systems, methods, and plans to improve the lives of their clients exponentially. Our work can be cathartic for our clients, because we get to the root cause of the disorganization. We work with people to expose the ugly parts of life and begin to shift life in the direction most desired; upward.