VOCATIONAL DOULA
Visibility Guide
THERE IS MEDICINE IN Visibility
MEANINGFUL WORK · VISIBILITY · MATRIARCHAL LEADERSHIP
LET’S DO THE WORK THAT MATTERS, and LIVE LIKE WE MATTER, TOO.
Even now. Even when.
EXPLORE VISIBILITY MEDICINE
EXPLORE VISIBILITY MEDICINE
I’m Danielle Cohen
I created Visibility Medicine™ for the deep and the devoted…
The healers, artists, authors, and leaders who want to do the work they're here to do, thrive while doing it, and find their own ways of showing up and being seen.
(Soul intact. Yes, even on the internet.)
VISIBILITY SUPPORT AND PHOTOGRAPHY FOR THE forces of good IN THE WORLD.
A FEW OF THE PEOPLE I’VE WORKED WITH:
Danielle is a mix of strategy, warmth, magical active listening & true witness.
Dr. Jennifer Mullan, author of Decolonizing Therapy
We all have meaningful work to share with the world.
Frameworks, practices, books, art, teachings, ways of healing.
TO BRING IT FORWARD, WE NEED:
• COURAGE AND CARE TO HEAR AND ANSWER OUR CALLINGS.
• MONEY TO LIVE WELL AND SHARE WELL.
• THE REACH TO FIND THE PEOPLE IT’S FOR.
• AND ENOUGH ENERGY TO ENJOY IT ALL.
We’ve been conditioned to believe that meaningful work will leave us under-resourced and exhausted, or that it’s only for a select few.
I reject that. I believe good work, good money, rest, and belonging are for all of us.
People trust you. Your work is good. And now you want to change how you carry it or share it: you might want to make more or different money, hire new help, write the (first or fifth) book, or become time rich.
I’ll help you hear yourself, recognize what’s ready, and decide what to do. Sometimes that means developing an offer or changing a price. Sometimes it means tending an old visibility injury, making a different agreement, or giving an idea enough time and attention to let it cook, season, and grow deep roots.
We’ll make a plan that takes your health, your relationships, your time, and your ambitions seriously.
“I love the way we zoom in on the nitty gritty (dates, numbers, capacity) and zoom out (big vision, world situation, etc.) and weave it all with real life (relational stuff, parenting, health and hormones).”
Erin Geesaman Rabke
Many of us were wired to believe that work this meaningful has to cost us greatly. Our health, our time, our people, our pleasure.
I reject that.
Here, we work by feminine lifeways and matriarchal leadership.
Everyone is fed.
You and your creativity. Your people, your clients, your collaborators, your community.
The truth is told.
About what we’re up against, what we want, and how big our ambitions and our needs are.
Seasons are organizing frameworks.
The season of the year, the season of your body and life, and the season your work is in all shape our strategies.
The good work gets done.
The book gets written. The offer goes out. The medicine is shared. The price and pace are right-sized.
What I mean by visibility
Visibility is the ability to see and be seen.
It shapes how we participate in our own lives: what we recognize in ourselves, what we let others know, and what we’re willing to bring forward.
That might mean claiming your expertise, asking for more money, publishing something important, or allowing yourself to be photographed. It might mean acknowledging a desire you’ve been negotiating away for years.
There is medicine in these moments. We discover something. We recover something. We find that we have more choice than we thought. Often the very thing that keeps us stuck, bound up, or feeling deficient becomes a source of power and medicine.
There are risks, too. Our histories, relationships, and social positions shape what showing up asks of us. I take those realities seriously.
I call this work Visibility Medicine™. It brings together soul, soma, and strategy: listening for what’s yours, keeping your body in the conversation, and helping you do something with what you discover. It’s in every private session, every group, and every portrait I make.
WAYS WE CAN WORK TOGETHER
WAYS WE CAN WORK TOGETHER
WAYS WE CAN WORK Together
THE GROUP PROGRAM
VISIBILITY MEDICINE™
A nine-month group immersion for seasoned practitioners, healers, artists, and authors with something important to bring forward, and a body that has opinions about it.
With teaching, council, and protected time to do your work, we practice on a project that matters to you. A book, a website, a new offer, a clearer voice. You’ll have support for the practical work and for what happens inside you as you do it.
Offered once a year, in a small cohort. Enrollment is by application, and the waitlist hears first.
PRIVATE ADVISORY
GUIDE BY
YOUR SIDE
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Everyone turns to you. This is where you turn. Private advisory for your life and work. Bring the offering you’re shaping, the decision you keep circling, the money question, the project.
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I'll get to know you, track the threads, and bring skill, honesty, imagination, and care to you and the work you're here to do.
Choose a focused intensive or an ongoing partnership, depending on the support you need. I work privately with a small number of people at a time.
PORTRAIT SESSIONS
VOCATI PHOTOGRAPHY
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You are so much more than a brand. Together we can make photographs that express more of your richness and texture: your work, your presence, your particular way of moving through the world.
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For your website, your profiles, your book, the work you’re bringing forward. Or simply because you want photographs of yourself in this season of your life.
Honest, ensouled photographs, made through an encounter between us. (Sessions begin at $2,000.)
speaking + collaborations
CREATIVE TEACHINGS
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Program and community leaders looking for guest teaching, podcasts, and projects with fellow artists and teachers.
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I’ve guest taught in programs and communities led by Dr. Jennifer Mullan, Bari Tessler, Toi Smith, Tarzan Kay, and others.
THE JOY OF SHOWING UP
THE JOY OF SHOWING UP
MAY I WRITE TO YOU?
A love letter, twice a month, for practitioners, healers, and changemakers who refuse to shut down or burn out.
Every other week, I send a letter called The Joy of Showing Up. It’s about meaningful work, being seen, and living like we matter, with the occasional invitation to work together.
If you’d like it in your inbox, I’d love to write to you.
“I had not realized how much I was still in survival mode and self sacrifice until Danielle invited me into truly receiving, into being well and resourced, & into honoring my desires.”
Dra. Rocío Rosales Meza
I’M DANIELLE
MENTOR. TEACHER. PHOTOGRAPHER. MATRIARCH.
We’re creating a world where the people doing the deepest work are well fed, well paid, and well rested. Where healers, artists, teachers, and guides can bring their offerings forward without making themselves smaller, sicker, or poorer to do it.
You have work to do that won’t let you go. Even now, with the world giving us plenty to reckon with. Even when you’re caring for the people you love, tending your health, or tired to the bone. Bring me your magnificent ideas and the mess around them. I’ll bring tenderness, humor, honest reflection, and sound strategy.
I’ve worked in the healing arts for more than thirty years and run my own business online for fifteen. Along the way, I’ve created Visibility Medicine™, co-founded Amulet magazine, attended births and deaths, and made portraits of hundreds of people, including Carrie-Anne Moss, Dr. Jennifer Mullan, Toi Smith, Bari Tessler, Alexandra Franzen, and Rosemary Gladstar.
I’ve raised three sons into adulthood, with my daughter coming up behind them. Mothering the four of them has been its own rigorous education in love, leadership, and supporting people in becoming who they are.
I’d love to do this work with you.
DanielleRECLAIM YOUR SELF-IMAGE
RECLAIM YOUR SELF-IMAGE
An Image of One’s Own
What if you could see where your self-image actually came from and begin reclaiming it? That’s what An Image of One’s Own helps you do. In this mini-course, I trace the forces that quietly shape how we see ourselves, and shows you how to begin shifting that relationship.
✴ a short 30-minute teaching how the reflections we receive slowly become the way we see ourselves
✴ a play-along guide with three practices you can start today
✴ a deeper reflection guide to help you begin rewriting your own self-image
