Studio Ash North Compton is the collaborative space for various modules of critical creative expression, namely design, systems thinking, and psychology-informed sustainability practices. Rigorous yet inviting, the Studio’s expressions range from independent to collective; artistic to commercial; institutional to freeform; local to universal; and clinical to embodied, field-based, and imaginative.

Ash North Compton (she/her) is a psychotherapist and cultural ecologist whose practice encompasses systems thinking, communications design and design of the built environment, research and writing, and climate trauma and resiliency consulting for corporate and individual clients.   

Her work collectively focuses on climate change adaptation, environmental traumas, and fostering reconciliation between humans and nature at collective scale.

Ash has designed award-winning sustainable interior spaces for nonprofit and corporate clients, as well as research-based adaptation and resiliency programs for rural-urban communities. Her active, post-Jungian psychotherapy practice symbiotically informs her design work, and roots her corporate consulting and lectures about archetypal relationships to environment, with special attention to pandemic-era relationships to both grief and climate.

She is a prolific field and clinical researcher and writer, exploring topics related to disaster trauma, existential threats such as digital and relational issues, and trauma’s interrelationship with myth, dreamwork, and fairytale analyses. She is also an olfactory artist whose curatorial and commercial projects share these focuses.

In sum, Ash’s cross-disciplinary work is committed to creating new public health understandings and models to address existential threats to human-nature relationships.  She is a founding member of Yale University’s Climate Change and Health Alumni Steering Committee, a member of multiple American Counseling and Therapists Associations, and was formerly Co-Chair of the DC region’s Emerging Green Builders council.