Reviews
from my lovely former students
"I never felt under pressure when I was learning with Heather, I always felt comfortable to be myself whilst I learned every week or so, before I started and even earlier in my initial sessions I always wondered how I was going to get my voice to a point where I have heard so many other trans peeps get to, sounding perfectly ideal for how I wanted to sound for myself. I am really happy with my results and the effort I put into my voice, but I couldn't have gotten to this level without Heather's support and teachings. If you need a recommendation for a coach I can recommend no one better." - GH
“I was reasonably happy with my conversational speaking voice, but I struggled with using my voice professionally. I am a teacher so I often need to project my voice over other voices, and I was finding my voice in those situations to be dysphoric.
Heather tailored my training with this and my accent in mind. I had a course of 10 session and now I can use my voice confidently in classroom situations or when speaking to large groups and it feels congruent with my identity. Thank you so much, Heather!” - SH
"I approached Heather at TransVoiceTraining about six months into my transition, as I had read online that voice training was really difficult and I wanted professional help. Immediately after starting, she put me at ease and I found it much less nerve wracking and dysphoric when practising than I had when trying alone. I had been stuck in a rut at work and with friends who knew me pre-transition as my voice didn't match my changing appearance and working with Heather really taught me how to control my voice and also how I present myself. I now can communicate much more confidently and don't have to shy away from making myself heard. All my thanks to Heather for her hard work and changing the course of my transition!" - SB
“I have really enjoyed having voice training lessons with Heather, from the initial consultation, Heather assured me that there was lots that could be done with my voice to help it sound more feminine.
Communicating with Heather was always easy to do and each lesson was clearly planned out going through different exercises in order to achieve the target for that lesson. This was then followed up with discussing which of these exercises I should practice and focus working on until the next lesson.
While I struggled at some points of the course and wondered if this was going to work for me I am glad that I persevered as just a few lessons later it all came together and I was able to make great progress resulting in me finishing with a voice sounding so much better than I thought would be possible when we started working together, with comments from people who have known me since before I transitioned saying how good my voice sounds now.
This is definitely something that I am glad I have done and I would recommend anyone who is transitioning to consider doing as well, with practice, patience and a willingness to see it through to the end the results are worth it. — SS