Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby Foundations Color Type LHS LHSFT Compare Voice Social Rules Files
Brand & Style Guide

The look & voice of Love, Happiness & Success

A single source of truth for how the Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby brand shows up everywhere it appears — the website, both YouTube shows and their cover art, the blog, and social. One system across every channel.

Covers: web · podcasts · cover art · blog · social Anchored to: drlisamariebobby.com Version: 1.3 · July 2026
01 — Shared Foundations

One brand, two shows

Both podcasts are expressions of the same parent brand: Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby / LHS Media. They share a wordmark, a typographic voice (Playfair Display), a warm editorial sensibility, and a common cover-art architecture. Each show then gets its own color signature and audience-specific voice.

LHS

Love, Happiness & Success

YouTube: @DrLisaMarieBobby · 5.76K subscribers · 500+ videos

The flagship consumer show. Warm, hopeful psychology for a general audience — relationships, anxiety, self-growth. Cover art leans blush-pink and airy, with charcoal headlines and a single expressive accent word.

LHSFT

LHS For Therapists

YouTube: @LHSForTherapists

The professional spin-off for clinicians and private-practice owners. Same editorial DNA, but a deeper, more clinical palette (deep pine), name-pill labelling of guests, and a business/craft-of-therapy voice.

The wordmark

The name always sets in Playfair Display, regular weight, normal (non-italic) case as written — never all-caps, never letter-spaced. On the website it renders in coral in light mode and gold in dark mode.

Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
Playfair Display · 400 · normal case · coral (light) / gold (dark)
02 — Color

Color system

Two connected palettes. The web palette governs the website and UI. The cover-art palette is the softer, more editorial range that appears across current YouTube thumbnails for both shows.

Web palette — exact values, from the LHS Media site

Coral
#E8735A
Light-mode accent, CTAs, active states
Gold
#CCA834
Dark-mode accent, eyebrows
Warm Charcoal
#2D2D25
Primary text · LHS headline base
Ink Black
#1C1917
Deepest ink · dark-mode backgrounds
Warm Cream
#FAF8F5
Light-mode page background
White
#FFFFFF
Text on dark, card surfaces

Cover-art palette — sampled from current thumbnails (approximate)

Cover headlines use a charcoal or pine base plus one expressive accent color per episode, drawn from this range. Berry-rose is the signature; it also fills the Dr. Lisa name-pill on LHSFT art.

Berry Rose
#C43D6C
Signature italic accent · Lisa name-pill
Deep Pine
#134E45
LHSFT headline base · guest pills
Leaf Green
#4FA06A
Accent emphasis word
Teal Blue
#3F8CA3
Accent word · LHSFT show pill
Coral
#E8735A
Warm accent — shared with the site
Blush Pink
#F5C6D8
Photo-circle fill · background tint
Mint
#E2F0E7
Background tint (LHSFT-leaning)

Supporting tints — extend the system; not in the core Canva set

Pale Sky
#DEEBF1
Airy cover background
Soft Peach
#FBEDE3
Warm cover background
Sand
#EFE7DB
Neutral card ground
Mauve
#8C5B67
Softened berry · secondary text

Show pills — the finalized channel tags

Each show carries a rounded pill in its accent color. LHS is berry-rose; LHSFT is teal blue (chosen so it reads as a clear color rather than the grayish pine at a light tint).

Show 01 — LHS Show 02 — LHSFT

Tip: click any swatch to copy its hex.

Coral is now the single warm accent

Web and cover art now share one warm color — coral #E8735A. The old cover-only "terracotta" has been retired so the site and the thumbnails read as one system. Berry-rose #C43D6C remains the signature pink accent; the two live together as a warm/cool pair.

Palette in use — example covers

The same system, combined. Every cover is one base color + one accent + one pastel ground. LHS sets the headline in warm charcoal; LHSFT sets it in deep pine and adds name pills. These are schematic (photos shown as color circles) — use them to see which pairings work.

LHS — warm-charcoal base
Why you feel unseen
Growing Self
58:23
The game you can't win
Growing Self
58:11
You're not stuck. You're evolving.
Growing Self
1:09:11
Steady when everything changes
Growing Self
1:04:56
When your brain won't shut off
Growing Self
57:56
It's not your fault
Growing Self
53:52
LHSFT — deep-pine base + name pills
Why clients get stuck
Dr. Lisa
Dr. Amir Levine
Growing Self
58:21
What therapy school skipped
Dr. Lisa
Dr. J. Wisdom
Growing Self
53:40
Stop digging for the problem
Dr. Lisa
E. Connie
Growing Self
1:08:11
Coaching, done seriously.
Dr. Lisa
C. Theo
Growing Self
1:06:55

Rule of thumb across every card: never two accents on one cover. The base carries the show (charcoal = LHS, pine = LHSFT); the single italic word carries the color.

03 — Typography

Typography

A two-typeface system carries everything: an elegant serif for display and headlines, a clean sans for captions, labels and UI. This pairing is consistent across the website and both podcasts.

Display / Headline
Playfair Display

Every headline, show title, wordmark and cover-art hook. Mix upright and italic in the same line — italic carries the emotional emphasis word. Weights 400–800.

Regular 400Italic 400SemiBold 600Bold 700
Text / UI / Captions
Inter / Clean Sans

Body copy, episode captions ("with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby + Guest"), name pills, buttons and metadata. Kept bold and tight on cover art for legibility at thumbnail size.

Regular 400Medium 500SemiBold 600Bold 700

The signature move: upright + italic

The brand's most recognizable typographic device is a Playfair headline where most words sit upright and one key word switches to colored italic. It creates rhythm and points the eye at the emotional payload of the title.

You're not stuck.
You're evolving.
Upright charcoal + italic accent word — the core cover-art headline pattern

Web-font note: This guide previews Playfair Display & Inter from Google Fonts. Confirm the website's exact body sans before finalizing — the roles above hold regardless of the specific sans chosen.

Show 01 — LHS

Love, Happiness & Success

The flagship show for a broad, wellness-minded audience. The visual mood is light, warm and hopeful — blush and mint pastels, generous white space, and an emotional one-line hook.

Channel branding

Banner

Bright blush-pink field with a repeating diagonal "LOVE HAPPINESS SUCCESS" watermark. Dr. Lisa is centered, seated. Overlaid title reads "LOVE, HAPPINESS & SUCCESS" in bold white uppercase sans, with "with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby" beneath.

Avatar & handle

Circular headshot of Dr. Lisa on a blush-pink ground. Handle @DrLisaMarieBobby; channel name "Love, Happiness, and Success — with Dr. Lisa." Link out to growingself.com.

Cover-art template

A recreated schematic of the current LHS thumbnail system:

Why you feel unseen
with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby + Guest
Dr. Lisa
Guest
GrowingSelf
58:23

Schematic recreation for spec purposes. An editable layered PSD template (LHS_cover_template.psd) ships alongside this guide — opens in Canva, Photoshop, Affinity Designer & Pixelmator Pro, with the dot texture on its own adjustable layer. A live-text SVG version is also provided for editing headlines directly.

Adjust the dot texture before publishing

In the template files the background dot-grid is turned up on purpose — it's set more visible so the layer is easy to find and select. For finished cover art, reduce that layer's opacity (roughly 30–50%) so the dots read as a subtle, premium accent rather than a foreground pattern, keeping the airy feel of the current episodes. It lives on its own layer (“Background dots — adjust opacity”) in both the PSD and SVG.

Anatomy

Background: airy pastel gradient — blush-pink or mint — fading to near-white in the center, with a soft dot-grid texture (its own adjustable layer in the template).

Headline: Playfair Display, warm-charcoal base, one italic accent word in berry-rose, leaf green, teal-blue or coral.

Caption: "with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby + [Guest]" in bold charcoal Inter, below the headline.

Photos: circular headshots — Dr. Lisa almost always in a blush-pink circle, guest in a plain/white circle, usually stacked. Layout side (left/right) flips for variety.

Marks: small italic "GrowingSelf" watermark; YouTube duration badge bottom-right.

Specs & rules

  • Canvas: 1280 × 720 px (16:9), export <2 MB JPG/PNG.
  • Headline: 2–4 words upright + 1 italic accent; keep to ≤2 short lines.
  • One accent color per cover — never two accent words.
  • Contrast: keep the headline off the photos; text lives on the light gradient.
  • Legibility: assume it will be seen at ~210 px wide — test small.

Voice & tone — LHS

Warm, empathetic, hopeful and a little conversational. Speaks directly to "you." The cover hook is emotional and human; the YouTube title is practical and searchable.

Cover hook (emotional)

  • "You're not stuck. You're evolving."
  • "Why you feel unseen"
  • "Confidence is built, not born"
  • "You're not crazy. You're attached."

YouTube title (practical)

  • How to Be More Confident: Why Affirmations Don't Work Topic + framing | Guest Name
  • How to Stop Overthinking: The MIST Method | Donna Jackson Nakazawa "How to…" + method + guest

Formula: emotional hook on the art → "How to [outcome]: [angle] | [Guest]" as the title. Sentence-friendly, never clinical jargon.

Show 02 — LHSFT

LHS For Therapists

The professional show for clinicians, coaches and private-practice owners. Same editorial architecture as LHS, dialed to feel more grounded and expert — deeper pine-teal typography and clearly labelled guest credentials.

Cover-art template

A recreated schematic of the current LHSFT thumbnail system:

What Therapy School Skipped
Dr. Lisa
Guest
Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
Dr. Guest Name
GrowingSelf
53:40

Schematic recreation for spec purposes. An editable layered PSD template (LHSFT_cover_template.psd) plus a live-text SVG ship alongside this guide — same app support, with pine-teal headline, name pills and dot texture on separate layers. As with LHS, dial the dot-texture layer opacity down (~30–50%) for the final art.

Anatomy — what changes vs. LHS

Background: same pastel gradients, but mint-green appears more often and the color is a touch more saturated.

Headline: base color shifts from charcoal to deep pine #134E45, still with a berry-rose italic accent word.

Name pills: the signature LHSFT device — each headshot carries a rounded name pill. Dr. Lisa's pill is berry-rose; guests get pine-teal or berry pills stating their name and credential (LCSW, PhD, etc.).

Photos: two stacked circles, Dr. Lisa top in a blush-pink circle, guest below.

Marks: same "GrowingSelf" watermark and duration badge.

Specs & rules

  • Canvas: 1280 × 720 px (16:9).
  • Headline base = deep pine, not charcoal — this is the fastest visual "tell" that separates LHSFT from LHS.
  • Always pill the guest with name + credential; it signals professional authority.
  • Pill colors: Lisa = berry-rose; guest = pine-teal (or berry) — white text, high contrast.
  • Keep one italic accent word, as with LHS.

Voice & tone — LHSFT

Peer-to-peer and credible — Dr. Lisa talking shop with fellow professionals. Still warm, but more candid about the business and craft of therapy. Titles name the professional topic and credential the guest.

Cover hook (candid/professional)

  • "What Therapy School Skipped"
  • "$4 million a year. Still broke."
  • "Coaching, Done Seriously."
  • "Why clients get stuck"

YouTube title (topic | credentialed guest)

  • Private Practice Management for Therapists | Dr. Jennifer Wisdom Professional topic | Guest, credential
  • Attachment-Based Therapy: Why Clients Stay Stuck | Dr. Amir Levine Modality + insight | Guest

Formula: candid pro hook on the art → "[Clinical/business topic] for Therapists | [Guest, credential]." Always credential the expert.

04 — Side by side

LHS vs. LHSFT at a glance

Everything the two shows share, and the handful of deliberate differences that keep them distinct siblings.

ElementLHS — Love, Happiness & SuccessLHSFT — LHS For Therapists
AudienceGeneral / wellness consumerTherapists, coaches, practice owners
Handle@DrLisaMarieBobby@LHSForTherapists
Headline typefacePlayfair DisplayPlayfair Display (same)
Headline base colorWarm charcoal #2D2D25Deep pine #134E45
Italic accent wordBerry / leaf green / teal-blue / coralBerry-rose (same device)
BackgroundBlush-pink leaning, very airyMint-green appears more, slightly richer
Guest labelling"with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby + Guest" captionName pills on each photo (+ credential)
Photo treatmentCircular; Lisa in blush circle + guestCircular; Lisa in blush circle + guest (same)
Watermark"GrowingSelf""GrowingSelf" (same)
VoiceWarm, hopeful, direct-to-"you"Candid peer-to-peer, credentialed
Title patternHow to [outcome]: [angle] | Guest[Pro topic] for Therapists | Guest, credential
05 — Usage

Do & Don't

✓ Do

  • Set every headline in Playfair Display with exactly one italic accent word.
  • Keep backgrounds light and airy — let the gradient breathe.
  • Put Dr. Lisa in a blush-pink circle; keep headshots circular and consistent in size.
  • Use pine-teal headlines + name pills to signal LHSFT.
  • Credential guests on LHSFT (LCSW, PhD, LMFT…).
  • Keep the "GrowingSelf" watermark and 16:9 / 1280×720 canvas.

✕ Don't

  • Don't use two accent colors or italicize a whole headline.
  • Don't place headline text over a busy photo or dark area.
  • Don't switch fonts — no substitute serif for Playfair.
  • Don't mix the two shows' signatures (charcoal + pills, or pine + caption).
  • Don't crowd the frame — protect white space and the safe area.
  • Don't stretch, recolor, or drop-shadow the headshots.

Quick production checklist

1280×720 canvas · Playfair headline, one italic accent word · correct base color for the show (charcoal = LHS, deep pine = LHSFT) · Dr. Lisa in blush circle · guest labelled (caption for LHS, pill for LHSFT) · single accent color · GrowingSelf watermark · text off the photos · legible at 210 px.

06 — Voice & Messaging

Voice, messaging & boilerplate

Pulled from Dr. Lisa's long-form writing (the Growing Self blog) and her social bios, so titles, captions, show notes and posts all sound like one person. The rule of thumb: credentialed but human.

How the voice sounds

Content structure that repeats

Blog posts and show notes follow a dependable arc — reuse it:

Personal / relatable hook Reframe the problem Numbered takeaways Q&A / quick answers CTA: free consult · book · listen Related resources

Every long-form piece embeds the episode (YouTube + audio player + platform buttons), links chapter timestamps, and includes the full transcript for SEO.

Credential lockups

Use the full credential string on professional and by-line contexts; the site title stays clean.

Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, PhD, LMFT, BCC Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, PhD, LP, LMFT, BCC (social/reels) Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby (wordmark / display)

Boilerplate & brand phrases — click to copy

Show / brand name
Love, Happiness & Success
Tagline
Evidence-based ways to make your whole life better.
Credibility line
The Love, Happiness & Success Podcast — 15M+ downloads
Bio / mission line (Instagram)
Love your relationship. Heal your heart. Grow yourself. Design your success.
Affiliation
Founder of Growing Self Counseling & Coaching

Common category tags: Healthy Relationships · Communication · Marriage · Emotional Intelligence · Anxiety · Self-Growth.

07 — Social Media

Social media

The podcast cover-art system extends cleanly to social. The same Playfair two-tone headline, italic accent word, circular headshots and pastel palette carry across every platform — only the crop, format and voice-weighting change.

Instagram — @drlisamariebobby

Profile

Identity

Handle: @drlisamariebobby (verified)
Name field: “Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby | Psychologist”
Avatar: the blush-circle headshot, identical to YouTube & the site.
Bio: mission line → 🌱 Founder of Growing Self → 💗 Host of the LH&S podcast → link.

Story Highlights

A branded set: ink-black circle covers with the category word in caps, each in a brand accent — Happiness teal, Success gold, Love berry, Livestreams coral. Keep new highlights on the same template, drawing the label color from the palette.

HAPPINESS
Happiness · Teal Blue
SUCCESS
Success · Gold
LOVE
Love · Berry
LIVE •
Livestreams · Coral

Reversed set — same idea, flipped: the brand color fills the circle and the label is white. Handy for a bolder, more colorful row. One exception: white fails contrast on the lighter gold, so Success uses ink-black text on its gold fill.

HAPPINESS
Teal Blue · white
SUCCESS
Gold · ink text
LOVE
Berry · white
LIVE •
Coral · white

Feed formats

Four recurring post types keep the grid varied but unmistakably on-brand. Recreated schematics:

You'll never feel confident first.
Confidence comes AFTER action.
drlisamariebobby
Text card — the cover-art headline system, white/pastel bg, subhead + watermark.
The Self-Esteem Game
“The game itself is not winnable.”
— Dr. Ron Siegel
Quote-over-photo — moody image, white Playfair italic quote, guest attribution.
Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, PhD, LP, LMFT, BCC · @drlisamariebobby
The one thing keeping you stuck is you.
How to be more confident
The only thing keeping you stuck is you
Reel cover — animated preview: person still (Ken-Burns), sequential auto-captions, colored topic bar, Playfair hook & credential tag.

Topic-bar color = subject: green for growth / confidence / mindset, berry for love / relationship / connection. A 4th recurring type is the carousel framework (“Which one are you? The Fixer / Avoider / Connector / Explorer… check it out ›”) on a pastel illustrated background — ideal for turning an episode's model into a swipeable.

Instagram specs & rules

  • Feed: square 1080×1080 or portrait 1080×1350 (portrait earns more screen — preferred for text cards).
  • Reels & Stories: 1080×1920. Keep headlines out of the bottom ~250 px (caption/UI) and clear of the right-edge action buttons.
  • Grid rhythm: alternate text cards, photo-quotes and reels so the profile reads as a designed grid.
  • Always: one italic accent word, the drlisamariebobby watermark, and the brand palette — even over photography.
  • Caption voice: punchy hook first line, a little teaching, then a CTA (“save this,” “link in bio,” “which one are you?”).
LinkedIn — professional channel

Positioning

LinkedIn is the brand's professional face, so it leans on the website's own palette — coral and gold on warm charcoal or ink black — rather than the pastel podcast-cover colors. The voice stays peer-to-peer and credentialed; the look is more restrained and authoritative. Lead with a dark, editorial share image: gold eyebrow, cream or charcoal Playfair headline, one coral italic accent, and always credential the expert.

Love, Happiness & Success
The 5 communication types behind every fight
Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, PhD, LMFT, BCC · with Jason VanRuler
Dark treatment (primary) — 1200×627, ink-black ground, gold eyebrow, cream headline, coral accent.
Love, Happiness & Success
What most leaders get wrong about burnout
Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, PhD, LMFT, BCC
Light treatment (alt) — warm-sand ground, warm-charcoal headline, coral accent, gold eyebrow.

LinkedIn specs & rules

  • Link post image: 1200×627 (1.91:1).
  • In-feed image / carousel: 1080×1350 portrait; document carousels (PDF) are ideal for frameworks like the 5 communication types.
  • Palette: base is ink black #1C1917 or warm charcoal #2D2D25; eyebrow in gold #CCA834; one coral #E8735A italic accent. This mirrors the website, and sets LinkedIn apart from the pastel cover art.
  • Copy: longer, insight-led first line; evidence-based framing; link to the blog/episode; credential guests.
  • Tone: warmer than typical LinkedIn but professional — still speaks to “you.”

LinkedIn guidance is brand-derived

These LinkedIn recommendations come from the brand system plus current platform best practices, not from a specific audited profile. Share the LinkedIn page/handle you want to standardize on and I'll tailor this section — banner, avatar, and post templates — to match exactly.

08 — Starter files

Download the starter files

Ready-to-edit cover-art templates for both shows, built to the specs in this guide. Drop in a headshot, retype the headline, and export at 1280×720.

Layered · PSD

Cover-art templates — PSD

Both shows (LHS + LHSFT) as layered Photoshop files. Opens in Canva, Photoshop, Affinity Designer & Pixelmator Pro, with every element on its own named layer — background, dot texture, photo circles, headline, name pills, watermark. Text layers are rasterized (retype to edit wording).

↓  Download PSD templates (.zip)
Vector · SVG · editable text

Cover-art templates — SVG

Live, editable-text versions — best for editing headlines directly in Affinity Designer or Pixelmator Pro. Install the free Playfair Display & Inter fonts for an exact match.

↓  LHS template (.svg) ↓  LHSFT template (.svg)

Reminder: the background dot texture is turned up in these files so the layer is easy to find — reduce its opacity (~30–50%) for finished art.

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