Cindy Friedman, Brand Therapist

Great design begins with great questions

Making your brilliance visible through brand therapy and design.

Start with a hello
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Understanding first.
Design second.

That’s why every project here starts with brand therapy, not a logo.

Ninety minutes of honest conversation about your business: what you’re building, who it’s for, and the brilliance you keep underselling. You walk away with a written diagnosis of your brand and a roadmap, and every design decision after that is built on what we found together, not on guesses.

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What I actually make

Brand identities

Logos, color, type, and a brand guideline: the full kit for looking like you mean it.

Custom websites

Designed and built by me, no templates, made to wear your new brand.

Video & photo direction

Explainer videos are a specialty of mine. I set the creative direction and partner with animators, cinematographers, and photographers to bring it to life.

Content & collateral

Presentations, social templates, email, and the writing that goes with them. A brand works when it shows up everywhere looking like itself.

And it all starts with brand therapy

A 90-minute conversation about your business before I design a single thing. You talk, I listen, and you walk away with a written diagnosis of your brand and a plan. That’s the therapy.

How it works

1
The hello

Free, 20 minutes

2
Brand therapy

Interview + written diagnostic

3
Design

Built from your diagnostic

4
Launch

Brand, site, the works

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An Amazon bestseller

The Art of Noticing

That’s my chapter as a co-author of Luminaries: Women Leaders Who Light the Way (Sulit Press). It’s the heart of how I work: seeing what others miss. It’s how I worked long before AI, and how I still work now.

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Kind words

The first step in Cindy’s process is invaluable. She took the time to really know me and what was behind my brand before jumping into development. Afterward, she sent a phenomenal summary with her exact recommendations and next steps. Such an easy yes. I’ve never had anyone do that before.
Karen Taylor
Millionaire Nervous System
I have worked with many designers over the years. No one has your ability to understand what the client is trying to achieve with their visual brand. It is a powerful and unique gift! You are f*ing awesome at what you do.
Justin Foster
Foster Thinking
I loved working with Cindy. She’s clever, thorough, and massively helpful. I would hire her again and again.
Emily Capps
Senior Writer

My AI
statement

  • I am not afraid of AI.
  • AI can generate graphics.
  • AI can generate words.
  • AI can generate content.

What it cannot generate is perspective.

It cannot represent what you are trying to create.

It cannot know you.

Let’s start with a hello.

A free, 20-minute call to get to know each other and see if I can help. No pressure.

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