• Getting Help to Overcome a Hoarding Disorder »
  Just throw it away. How hard can it be? Those words create major anxiety and deep fear in people who are hoarders.
• ABC 13:Hoarding Can Inhibit Life, Experts Say »
• “Procrastination and the Chronically Disorganized”
  National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization, October/ November 2009
• "Holidays Simplified"
  Online Organizing, October 2009
• "Be Ready with Important Papers"
  Kingwood Observer, September 2, 2009
• Woodlands Fall Home and Garden Show
  Add Style to your Life without Breaking the Budget
  Show Speakers Give Great Advice
  
  Simplify life with better-living ideas from a series of award-winning speakers at the Seventh Annual Fall Home & Garden Show at The Woodlands as they articulate how to cook, entertain, organize, save money and get the most out of your home investment.
  
  Nineteen Speakers on two different stages! Professional speakers with pertinent information for you on a variety of topics ranging from -- Real Estate Trends, Cooking and Entertaining, Organizing, Gardening, Identity Theft, Green Themes, Outdoor Living, Kitchen and Bath Trends, Interior Design Ideas and more...
  
  Simplify and Organize Organizing the home, whether it’s the kitchen or a spare room, is Ellen Delap’s life. A professional organizer and owner of Professional-Organizer.com, Delap simplifies the process for anxious hoarders and homeowners with a clutter problem.
  
  “Organizing really appeals to people who want to freshen up their home, are downsizing or just simplifying their lifestyle,” she said. “I think the country is embracing that right now, but the biggest challenge people face is getting started.”
  
  Instead of complicated plans and ideas, Delap said she wants people to leave the home and garden show with something they can start the moment they get home.
  
  “5 Steps to Simplify and Organize Your Home”
  Ellen Delap, Home Organizing Expert
  Kids heading off to school or college? Are you an empty-nester wanting to re-organize? Downsizing and don’t know where to start? Ellen presents organizing techniques to declutter and simplify your home.
  August 29 - 30, 2009
  

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• Keep Kingwood Green, Green Organizing for our Community »
  Our world is a small place and we all want to contribute to our global wellness. “Green organizing” is an environmentally focused organizing strategy emphasizing principles of reduce, reuse and recycle. (read full story »)
  April 22, 2009, Kingwood Observer
  
• Houston Chronicle »
  Cash is in your closets, greenbacks in the garage, dinero in the dining room, moolah under mattresses and almighty dollars in an attic. (read full story »)
  January 3, 2009
• Local Organizer Earns Chronic Disorganization Specialist Certificate
  Ellen Delap, owner of Professional-Organizer.com, earned the Chronic Disorganization Specialist Certificate at the national conference of the National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization (NSGCD) in St. Louis.
  
  Completing this certificate requires 9 additional classes on topics related to chronic disorganization, additional reading and passing of an exam. Earning this certificate shows a level of expertise and knowledge in working with clients who have greater organizing challenges. This nationally recognized certificate shows training for working with individuals where traditional organizing methods have not worked and who are have had a life long struggle with organizing.
  
  “I am honored when clients open up a part of their life that has been a struggle for them. I want to attain the highest level of education to help clients create new habits to meet their goals. This training helps me do just that. “Completion of this certificate advances my knowledge in this profession. Continuing my education in the professional organizing field helps me to better serve my clients and their needs,” said Delap.
  
  Professional-Organizer.com has provided customized organizing services in the greater Houston and Kingwood area since 2000. As a professional organizer, Delap empowers her clients to live more effectively by working one-on-one, creating individualized strategies and organizational systems designed specifically for them. She also holds certificates of study in Chronic Disorganization and Attention Deficit Disorder issues. For more information, call 281-360-3928.
  October 2008
  
• Ellen Delap Local Organizer Among First in Industry to
  Receive Certification
  A professional organizer from Kingwood and the greater Houston area was among the first in the organizing industry and in the state of Texas recently to receive the Certified Professional Organizer (CPO) designation. Ellen Delap, owner of Professional-Organizer.com, achieved national certification at the inaugural examination.
  
  “CPO ® Certification indicates proficiency in my profession,” said Delap. “It is an important recognition of those professionals who have met specific standards and proven through examination and client interaction that they possess the knowledge and experience required to be an expert in my field.”
  
  Professional-Organizer.com has provided customized organizing services in the greater Houston and Kingwood area since 2000. As a professional organizer, Delap empowers her clients to live more effectively by working one-on-one, creating individualized strategies and organizational systems designed specifically for them. She also holds certificates of study in Chronic Disorganization and Attention Deficit Disorder issues.
  June 2007
  

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• Local Professional Organizer meets Oprah’s Organizing Guru at
  National Organizing Conference
  While chairing the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO) conference in Reno, NV recently, professional organizer, Ellen Delap CPO ® met and hosted TLC Clean Sweep organizer and recent Oprah show guest Peter Walsh. Walsh was the keynote speaker at the NAPO event. Delap, a veteran organizer for the Houston area, has been a program committee member since 2007.
  April 2008
  
• Kingwood Observer
  Clutter support group forms to help organize lives
  January 2009
  Leading Women, FamilyTime Women of Achievement
  January 2009
• Forest Image
  How to Survive the Holiday Stress
  November 2008
• Kingwood Connection »
  Ellen Delap ... A professional organizer from Houston was among the first in the organizing industry and in the state of Texas recently to receive the Certified Professional Organizer (CPO) designation.
  June 2007
• Houston Chronicle
  Kingwood/Humble News »
  Kingwood resident Ellen Delap helps others get organized (Katrina catastrophe)
  Remove clutter, reduce stress
  January 16, 2007
• Kingwood Observer
  Preparing for the Holidays, November 2005
  In Honor of Get Organized Months, January 2005
  Spring Organizing, April 2004
• The Forest Image
  Get Organized for the New Year, January 2006
• Houston Family Magazine
  Spring Organizing, February 2004
• Daily Court Review
  Organizing your Papers, October 2004
• Houston Chronicle This Week
  Beanie Babies for Iraq, September 2004
• Houston Business Journal
  Organizers Expertise on Moving, February 2002
• AT&T Up2Speed Online Newsletter
  Spring Ahead with a Clean Closet, Spring 2006

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