Regina F. Lark

Regina F. Lark

Ph.D. CPO

CA, US
What's behind that clutter? What's the story behind that mess? Nationally recognized clutter and hoarding expert helps to explore the relationship between the stuff in your head and under your bed.

Regina F. Lark, Ph.D. CPO® BIO Dr. Regina Lark is the founder and owner A Clear Path: Professional Organizing and Productivity. Dr. Lark earned a Ph.D. in U.S. Women's History from the University of Southern California then worked with the UCLA Women's Studies program. In 2008 she left higher education to start A Clear Path.

Regina is a Certified Professional Organizer (CPO) and a Certified Professional Organizer in Chronic Disorganization (CPO-CD). She is a graduate of the Organizer Coach Foundation Training Program, serves as the Member Director of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals (NAPO).

Regina specializes in working with chronic disorganization, ADHD, and hoarding, and is a relocation expert, helping families upsize or downsize from one home to the next. She is a speaker and trainer on issues ranging from hoarding, time management and productivity, women's leadership, and the power of positive thinking.

In 2017, Dr. Lark released the 3rd edition of first book, Psychic Debris, Crowded Closets: The Relationship between the Stuff in your Head and What's Under your Bed. She is also the author of Before the Big O: Professional Organizers Talk about Life Before Organizing. Regina was named one of Top 10 Organizers in Los Angeles by CBS/KCAL Channel 2, and was also awarded NAPO-LA's Most Innovative Organizer.

For fun, she writes goofy songs about clutter.

Regina F. Lark, Ph.D. CPO® BIO Dr. Regina Lark is the founder and owner A Clear Path: Professional Organizing and Productivity. Dr. Lark earned a Ph.D. in U.S. Women's History from the University of Southern California then worked with the UCLA Women's Studies program. In 2008 she left higher education to start A Clear Path.

Regina is a Certified Professional Organizer (CPO) and a Certified Professional Organizer in Chronic Disorganization (CPO-CD). She is a graduate of the Organizer Coach Foundation Training Program, serves as the Member Director of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals (NAPO).

Regina specializes in working with chronic disorganization, ADHD, and hoarding, and is a relocation expert, helping families upsize or downsize from one home to the next. She is a speaker and trainer on issues ranging from hoarding, time management and productivity, women's leadership, and the power of positive thinking.

In 2017, Dr. Lark released the 3rd edition of first book, Psychic Debris, Crowded Closets: The Relationship between the Stuff in your Head and What's Under your Bed. She is also the author of Before the Big O: Professional Organizers Talk about Life Before Organizing. Regina was named one of Top 10 Organizers in Los Angeles by CBS/KCAL Channel 2, and was also awarded NAPO-LA's Most Innovative Organizer.

For fun, she writes goofy songs about clutter.

De-Clutter 101: From Chaos to Clarity

De-Clutter 101: From Chaos to Clarity

Why do so many super intelligent and creative people live in homes that resemble a train wreck? The homes and offices where rooms and floors are piled high with clothes, cupboards are stuffed with stuff, and papers, papers, papers(!) are every where! Organizing magazines and DIY books don't seem to help and you're often feeling stuck. How do you envision cleared spaces when you're living in such a mess?

De-Clutter 101:...
Inspirational / Life-changing

GSD [get stuff done]: Time Management, Productivity, and Prioritization

Do any of these phrases sound familiar?

  • I don't have time.
  • I've run/I'm running out of time.
  • I spend way too much time on this, and not enough on that.
  • I need to be more productive.
  • I never know what to do first.

We know with certainty that a single day is comprised of 24 hours, yet we are constantly running out of time, losing steam, and not realizing much in the way of productivity. We try to manage our time but we don't seem...

Educational / Informative

Help for Hoarding: It Takes a Village

 

In 2013, Compulsive Hoarding (aka: Hoarding Disorder) was first defined as a mental disorder in the 5th edition of the Diagnostic Statistical Manual - the bible for mental health professionals. The science on hoarding is still in its infancy. Little is known about how the hoarding disorder develops in the brain and as yet, no cure for this illness has been identified. What we do know about hoarding is how it presents: ceiling-high piles of paper and mountains of trash,...

Educational / Informative

Psychic Debris, Crowded Closets: The Relationship between the Stuff in your Head and Under the Bed

Your brain can be a powerful tool or a staggering enemy. You can uplift and elevate how you think about things as easily as you can disparage and deny that goodness is all around you. We tend to wear negative thinking as protective armor, shielding us from doing the important work of transforming how we think about who we are and how we manage.

The clutter and chaos of this "psychic debris" often reflects the clutter and chaos of our living spaces. We've made it okay to live among...

Inspirational / Life-changing

A Clear Path: My Journey into Junk

My journey into junk began innocently enough. Budget cuts at a well-known university where I was working as a director found me laid off from a job that was zapping my spirit. It was a not a good place for me. I wasn't thriving. I felt gagged and bound by rules that didn't make sense. I had been actively seeking the next opportunity when I received word that my position would be eliminated, effective immediately.

This was the first time in my life that I didn't have the next job...
Inspirational / Life-changing