About Healing Spaces: Mental Health Design Dialogue
Join Pineapple hosts as they discuss the latest mental health design matters with industry experts, sharing perspectives and insights on the built environment and the challenges and opportunities in creating healing spaces for patients, staff and the wider communities.
The role of everyday life in recovery-oriented programs
What changes when mental and behavioral healthcare is designed around the way people actually live? Join Pineapple's Melissa Steach and Shiva Mendez, founder and principal of Sage Lattice, LLC, for a wide-ranging conversation about recovery-oriented care, neighborhood-based service models and the role of the built environment in promoting dignity, trust and autonomy. Together, they explore how services, spaces and systems can move closer to the people they are intended to support - and how be...
21 May 2026
The Untapped Conversations in Behavioral Health - PART 2
This is PART 2 of our podcast on the untapped conversations in behavioral health, where Pineapple’s Daniel White delves into real-world behavioral health examples that don't always match the theory ... Joining him are HKS’s Rachael Rome, Global Director of Mental & Behavioral Health Design & Studio Practice Leader of the Dallas Health Practice, and her colleague Martyna Falloni, Senior Medical Planner & Associate. Topics they cover in PART 2 include: It’s not all forensic - so why...
30 Mar 2026
The Untapped Conversations in Behavioral Health - PART 1
Pineapple’s Daniel White hosts a conversation grounded in real-world behavioral health delivery rather than theory. Joining him are HKS’s Rachael Rome, Global Director of Mental & Behavioral Health Design & Studio Practice Leader of the Dallas Health Practice, and her colleague Martyna Falloni, Senior Medical Planner & Associate. Together they examine how mental and behavioral health design is full of assumptions that often can become default standards – and they challenges these ...
22 Jan 2026
From Plans to Practice - What Mental Health Spaces Need to Work in the Real World
Mental health environments are often designed with the best intentions, but the real test comes after opening day, when people, pressure, and unpredictability enter the space. Join Pineapple's Michelle Blackie and her guest Stacey Johnson, Hospital President and Vice President at Riverside Mental Health and Recovery Center in Virginia, USA, as they discuss what actually works in the real world - exploring how design, operations, and community intersect in mental health care, and what designer...
25 Nov 2025
The Hidden Design of Healing - How Macro Ergonomics Influences Behaviour and Recovery
Pineapple’s Daniel White is joined in conversation by Melissa Steach, who is not only an industrial-organizational psychologist and behavioral health design strategist, but also Pineapple’s Regional Engagement Manager. Daniel and Melissa explore the impact of ergonomics on patient outcomes in behavioral health settings, a topic that reaches across design, safety and human wellbeing. Thoughtful ergonomic design extends beyond comfort, by influencing mood, behavior, recovery and the overall the...
26 Sept 2025
Behavioral Health in Rural and Frontier Systems: Balancing Design, Safety, and Equity
Pineapple’s Michelle Blackie explores behavioral health in rural and frontier systems in the United States, places where critical access hospitals often serve as the only point of care for miles in every direction. In these settings, a single hospital must be everything for everyone: emergency department, primary care, mental health provider, and community lifeline. That reality demands an extraordinary level of agility in service delivery, from staff who wear multiple hats to facilities that...
30 Jul 2025
The Healing Blueprint: How River Edge Reimagined Behavioural Health
Pineapple’s Daniel White hosts an exploration of the River Edge Behavioral Health Center: a place where architecture and empathy work hand in hand, and the built environment becomes an agent of healing within the community. With guests Greta O’Dell, River Edge’s Chief Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities Officer, and Rachel Azar, Project Manager at Azar + Walsh Architects, Daniel explores how this new 34,000-square-foot facility in Macon, Georgia, has embraced a therapeutic app...
8 May 2025
Designing for Dignity: A Human-Centered Approach to Behavioral Health Spaces
Pineapple’s Michelle Blackie hosts a discussion around how thoughtful design of therapeutic spaces can create more compassionate, effective, and healing environments. How do we move toward a more holistic, human-centered approach to treatment spaces in behavioral health? These environments have previously been shaped primarily by risk mitigation. And while safety is crucial, we now know that the way a space feels - how it supports autonomy, comfort, connection, and dignity - can be just as im...
20 Mar 2025
Assisting De-escalation Through Design
Pineapple’s Daniel White hosts a discussion exploring how design impacts mental health spaces, with a focus on de-escalation in creating safe, therapeutic environments. The design of EmPATH (Emergency Psychiatric Assessment Treatment & Healing) units and other behavioural health crisis units plays a pivotal role in creating a calm and supportive space for psychiatric patients in otherwise chaotic and stressful emergency departments which are usually designed to accommodate physical ill he...
6 Jan 2025
The Influence of the Lived Experience on Design in Mental Health
Pineapple’s Lotte Bailey hosts a discussion about the influence of the lived experience on design in mental health. People are sharing valuable perspectives, informing the design of mental health spaces using their own experiences and recovery journeys to help designers create more effective and compassionate solutions for the built environment.This approach ensures that interventions are thoughtful, sensitively approached and aligned with the needs and preferences of patients and care p...
6 Nov 2024
Neurodivergence and the Importance of Design for Support and Inclusivity
Pineapple’s Edward Larsen hosts a discussion around neurodivergence and the importance of design for support and inclusivity. We have an opportunity in the design world to make the built environment less of a challenge for the neurodivergent population, and focus on creating spaces that are inclusive and supportive of individuals and their diverse cognitive styles.Building versatility into the spaces gives a sense of agency to the people within them. While we can’t really understand how ...
26 Sept 2024
Behavioral and Mental Health in 2030: What does the future hold?
In this episode Pineapple’s Lotte Bailey hosts a discussion looking at the future of behavioral and mental health design, recognising the critical role of the built environment in recovery and wellbeing. But while technology is racing ahead and certainly aiding the transition from purely functional to more adaptive healing environments, there are still systemic issues we face designing suitable spaces within our communities. Join Lotte with guests Stephen Parker, Anosha Zanjani and ...
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