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Bay Area Professional Organizer
Whole-Home Transformation & Operational Home Consulting
Helping clients reclaim control of homes that no longer function for the life they want to live today.
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Homes, Offices, Storage
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Open Weekdays and Weekends
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Serving Alameda & Contra Costa Counties
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23 Years Experience
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4.5 Star Rating on Yelp, 5 Stars on Google
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Portion of Proceeds benefits local Nonprofit California BrainWaves
Q. What is a Professional Organizer, and what can they help me with?
Q. What is a Professional Organizer, and what can they help me with?
A. Professional Organizing is an industry that helps individuals and businesses de-clutter, take control of their surroundings, and create systems to optimize functionality, space, resources, time, energy and reduce stress.
Professional Organizers motivate, coach and teach clients to become self-organized and provide the physical labor of organizing a space.
Professional Organizers are separate from cleaners, junk haulers, interior designers, professional movers, installers, handymen, etc.
Q. Do you offer consultations?
A. Every project begins with a free 45 minute phone consultation.
We'll discuss:
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your goals
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current challenges
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project scope
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timeline
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package recommendations
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scheduling availability
This is also a chance to determine whether we're a good fit to work together.
Q. When are you open?
A. Bay Area Professional Organizer Co is open:
Th-Sun 9am-8:30pm, Tuesdays 9-3, closed Mondays and Wednesdays.
Sessions usually start at 9:00-10am, depending on commute.
Q. What do we do with the "don't keep" items?
A. Kiera helps clients process all not keeps into recycling, compost, donate--very little is actual trash. She helps advise clients on best donation practices for efficiency. She is not a junk hauler, but can sometimes take donations to the local schools/art center/help unhoused neighbors. She recommends junk haulers, book haulers, and can post Free on Curb posts. Post-session, Clients haul donations in their vehicle to their local Savers.
Q. How long have you been a Professional Organizer?
Q. How long have you been a Professional Organizer?
A. 23 years and counting!
Q. Will you make me get rid of everything?
A. No. You keep what you love/want/need/use, including memorabilia.
Q. Will you judge me?
A. Absolutely not.
Overwhelm happens for many reasons, including busy schedules, caregiving, executive functioning struggles, grief, burnout, life transitions, health challenges, and simply accumulating too much over time.
This work is collaborative, supportive, and judgement-free.
Q. Do I need to be present during sessions?
A. Yes.
Bay Area Professional Organizer is a collaborative, hands-on service. Clients are actively involved in the decision-making process throughout the project.
The goal is to create realistic, maintainable systems that work for your lifestyle long-term.
Q. What makes Bay Area Professional Organizer different?
A. With over 20 years experience, Bay Area Professional Organizer focuses on real-life functionality.
Projects are approached with compassion, structure, momentum, and hands-on support designed specifically for overwhelmed households navigating busy lives, caregiving, executive functioning challenges, major transitions, and accumulated clutter over time.
Q. How does scheduling work?
Q. How does scheduling work?
How Long are Sessions?
Sessions are minimum 6 hours, usually 6-8 hours, sometimes longer if needed. Full organizing days create greater momentum, deeper transformations, and more noticeable results.
The clutter ultimately dictates the end time. If we push one more hour to eliminate you having to step over piles for a week, we push one more hour to have a cleared floor.
The PROVEN Schedule for the LEAST stressed client and the BIGGEST success:
Clients start with two days back-to-back, take a few days break, with a third session later that first week. For example: Sat/Sun/Th. Sessions are then once a week. However, garages, kitchens, craft rooms, and super crammed rooms are best for two sessions back-to-back.
More Details:
If you can't do the recommended above schedule, we'll figure it out. But truly try because it is in your best interest--it's less stressful to finish sooner than later.
Most clients take paid leave or schedule on their off days.
Clients have 6 months from date of purchase to use all of their sessions.
For larger homes/packages, clients will take a week or two off here and there for breaks, with the organizer creating the schedule in tandem. Plus, we all have vacations, special occasions, work, life, get sick, etc. Kiera will direct session scheduling/timing in the best interest of the client, accounting for all variables.
Q. How does payment work?
Q. How does payment work?
A. Packages are prepaid in full to reserve dedicated organizing days. Preferred payment methods: Zelle, ACH Bank Transfer, Venmo. Credit Cards are accepted with a 3.5% processing fee. Cash, Check and Bitcoin are not accepted. There are no refunds to ensure commitment by the client to follow-through on the organizing process.
If the job is completed before all the sessions are used, clients can use the remaining session(s) at a further date (i.e.: before holiday guests arrive, when paper clutter has piled up again, the kids' room is a disaster, major life transition, etc). Clients can also gift or donate their remaining sessions.
Clients have 6 months from purchase date to use their remaining sessions. Transfers are included in the 6 month expiration date.
If clients forfeit their packages, for any reason, Bay Area Professional Organizer can donate remaining sessions at BAPO's discretion.
Clients can add-on sessions at their package tier daily rate, or they can upgrade to the next package to increase savings, as needed.
Q. What types of organizing projects do you work on?
A: Bay Area Professional Organizer specializes in entire home organizing projects, including apartments, condos, houses, garages, home offices, storage spaces, downsizing, and major life transitions.
Projects are customized to each client's lifestyle, goals, and level of overwhelm.
Q. Do I need to clean before you come?
A. No.
Many clients contact Bay Area Professional Organizer because they feel overwhelmed and unsure where to begin. The organizing process is designed to help create structure, momentum, and lasting systems, starting exactly where you are.
Q. I'm nervous!
Q. I'm nervous!
A. That's normal! Most clients are nervous and anxious before their first session. No need to panic, cancel or clean-up before the Organizer arrives. Once you start working together, you'll be more and more at ease and realize that you aren't being thought of as a slob, but being helped through an overwhelming task to have a simpler, much-improved life.
Q. Is it one person or a crew?
Q. Is it one person or a crew?
A. Sessions are 1-on-1 with the same experienced Professional Organizer. This allows for a fully customized, paced service with personal coaching included.
Q. Are sessions confidential?
Q. Are sessions confidential?
A. Yes! When you work with a Professional Organizer, your sessions are confidential.
Q. What is your cancellation policy?
A. Consistency and punctuality are critical for maintaining project momentum and transformation progress.
Note from the Owner: To ensure income stability to support my family in the Bay Area and ensure all clients have access to advanced bookings, reschedules must be made 72+ business hours in advance of our appointment. Please note the business is closed on Mondays, Wednesdays, and All Major Holidays. Cancellations less than 3 business days in advance forfeit that session from their package unless true emergency, contagious, death of a loved one. A total of 3 cancellations/reschedules forfeits the entire package with no refunds.
Please note that the cancellations are only for emergencies, it is not an invitation to use 3 free cancellations/reschedules as this severely impacts our family's income security--if no one else is able to book on short notice, it is a lost day's pay.
If a client ends a session early for any reason, the minimum 6 hours is still counted.
If a client is 20 mins+ late for their own session, the session is cancelled and 6 hours is forfeited from the package.
Q. Do I have to buy anything before we start?
Q. Do I have to buy anything before we start?
A. Kiera will send you a client's prep list before sessions start. Most client's already own the items for the "supply station." Please do not buy anything not on the list beforehand as to not cause more clutter. Kiera is excellent at using what the client already owns first, to avoid buying more. Additionally, you won't know what storage solutions you'll need till the space has been fully sorted and purged. Most clients end up with a "Container Castle" of options for storage, so let Kiera recommend as needed after sorting/purging your space.
Kiera will text Amazon links as needed/wanted. Clients can also save for later in your cart if budgeting.
- 2 Car Garage: 2 sessions to sort/purge, 1/2 to 1 day to organize
- Bathroom: 1 session or less
- Bedroom: 1-2 sessions to sort/purge/organize/arrange furniture/decorate
- Clothes Closet + Dresser: 1-2 sessions to sort/purge/organize
- Linen/Coat Closet: 30 mins to couple hours, depending if boxes/jam-packed
- Junk Room: 2-3 sessions
- Kitchen + Pantry: 1-3 sessions
- Car: 1/2 session or less
- Storage Unit: 2-4 sessions
- Attic: 1-2 sessions
- Office: 2 sessions to sort/purge, 1 session to set up new systems/arrange furniture/decorate
- Electronic Organizing (small business online organizing, computer files/pictures, email accounts): 2+ sessions
- Financial Organizing: 1-2 sessions
- Schedule/Chore Creation: 1/2 session or less
- Memorabilia: 2 or more sessions
Q. Do I need to arrange childcare?
Q. Do I need to arrange childcare?
A. Your attention and focus is needed during sessions. Clients must be present during the entire session. Only have at your sessions who will help, not hinder.
