"I've never seen your voice training curriculum used anywhere. This is completely unique."
-Fem Voice Client 8 months WRT

"Other instructors I've worked with, they want to help, they mean well, but you really understand the anatomy and physiology and you explain it well.
I get it now."
-New Fem Voice Client

"You're right, it's about resonance. I was out and used my fem voice for several minutes and no one knew I was trans!
Do you remember I couldn't even go 30 seconds before without pain?"
-Fem Voice Client after 7 weeks daily pitch elevation + breathing pattern practice

"I'm in a happy place, where I feel I can use it when I want to be intentional about it, and I'm not nervous to use it when I choose to."
- Fem Voice Client, 1 year WRT voice training + daily practice

"I'm gendered correctly like 100% of the time on the phone, I've gotten comfortable shouting...in *both* voices."
- Fem Voice Client, 1.5 years of WRT voice training + daily practice

"Vocal fold surgery doesn't make sense. It's not going to change your speech patterns. It's not going to change your breathing.
That's how voice is created."
-New Fem Voice Client

"The happiness I've found with voice training and getting there has been the biggest push I've had; it's why I'm able to wear a dress now."
-Fem Voice Client after 1 year WRT training

'I used my fem voice on a date last week. I've never been able to talk that long or that well."
- Fem Voice Client, self-trained + 3 months WRT

"I love doing all the voices. I love confusing people."
-Fem/Masc/Gender Neutral Voice Client, 1 year w/straw phonation

"I had to stop hearing my fem voice as performative to move forward."
-Fem Voice Client, 6 months voice training

"Honestly, everyone [at GVC] is a wonderful person and definitely knows their stuff!"
-Fem Voice Client of 6 months

"I use my fem voice at work. No one has any clue I'm trans."
-Graduated fem voice client, 1 year WRT

"I have never seen these techniques used like this before. It's really amazing to learn."
-Graduate Student on Clinical Rotation

"Being able to work on voice here has been critical to bringing it all together."
-Graduated Fem Voice Client

"I came out to my parents and friends. Social life is much improved. My fem voice has served me well."
-Graduated Fem Voice Client

"I was at a party the other night and a guest pulled me aside and said low key, no notes, your voice is a 10."
-Fem Voice Client, 8 months WRT training

"The feminine voice moaning we were working on? It happened the other night. I did it. Fairly spontaneously too, and it was accurate, and he believed it."
-Fem Voice Client of 1 year using WRT

Client: "I need a straw."
Kat: "No you don't. You're ready."
Client, 30 minutes later: "Oh my god. You're right. I didn't need the straw."
-Fem Voice Client, 1 year WRT + straw phonation

"All I can say about laryngeal shaving is: Don't. I did and my voice was worse until I came here to GVC."
-Fem Voice Client after 6 months using WRT

"Oh did I ever tell you? I went through my vow renewals in femme voice!"
-Fem Voice Client after 5 months of voice training w/WRT & pitch glides

"I got gendered correctly on the phone!!!"
-Fem Voice Client after 3 months of weekly WRT and 5 minutes daily practice at her job

"Oh my god I can hear it. I can hear it! I can hear her in there. She's coming out."
-Fem Voice Client after 4 sessions of WRT and 5 minutes daily practice

"It helped a lot to think of my air pushing through my palate even when my tongue was at my lower molars."
-Fem Voice Client reflecting on producing smoky fem voice, 6 months WRT + 5 minutes daily practice

"I never ever thought I would learn to sing!" I sound like me! I sound smoky. That's how I thought I'd sound. This is crazy!"
-Fem Voice Client after one singing session

"I know it's just science, but it feels like magic what happens in here."
-Fem Voice Client after 7 months weekly WRT and 5 min daily practice

"Was on a call back the other day, lady said, 'Is something going on with this phone? I spoke with a woman last week.'
Such great confirmation -- I was laughing."
-Fem Voice Client after 4 months of WRT and 5 minutes daily practice

"I can access my masculine voice like flipping a switch. I'm so happy."
-Masculine Voice Client, 6 months weekly straw work

"When I hit a plateau, it's such a grind but I always know there's another side to get to."
-Fem Voice Client after 5 months using WRT and straw phonation

"Got ma'amed so much on the phone today I had to be my own girlfriend. I've been practicing a lot the correct way."
-Fem Voice Client after 6 months of WRT and straw phonation instruction

"Everything I need for my fem voice is within me. I just had to accept that to gain confidence; and it's working."
-Fem Voice Client after two months of weekly training

"Learning this different breathing patern is helping me in my presentations at work too. It just sounds better and feels better.
And it makes my voice sound super fem like I want it to."
-Fem Voice Client after 4 months of weekly sessions

"I like that I have the grit and gravel, and also a softer boom to my voice. It suits me better.
I can feel the authority in my voice and I know others hear it too based on their reactions."
-Masculine Voice Client, 4 months straw phonation, soft glottal attacks, and pitch glides

"I love it! I can't believe how fast I can hear a difference in my voice and my mom can too!"
-Teen Fem Voice Client, 4 sessions WRT + panting/phonating + daily practice

"Remember how quietly I spoke that first session? Now I can speak louder and I like speaking louder."
-Fem Voice Client after 6 weeks of consistent forward resonance practice

"I'm going to keep using my feminine voice all the time. I was scared, but now I'm not."
-Fem Voice Client after 9 months of weekly training sessions

"Being in-person with you makes such a difference. I've tried some stuff online but it's hard trying to understand and do the resonance part on my own."
-Fem Voice Client after 2 sessions

"You're always so happy and positive and it keeps me going, it helps me show up every week."
-Fem Voice Client after 6 months of sessions

"I can feel my breath in my soft palate. I can tell I'm not thinking about it as much. I'm getting positive feedback from people already."
-Fem Voice Client after 4 sessions, using WRT, straw phonation, and 5 minutes diligent daily practice

"I don't really care what happens. I'm going to use my feminine voice tomorrow during my work meeting. I can do it. I am doing it right now."
-Fem Voice Client after 8 months of WRT sessions

"My dysphoria has melted away. I've actually taken stuff OFF my list of 'transition things to do' because having and loving my feminine voice has made such a difference."
-Fem Voice Client after 12 WRT sessions

"I couldn't produce my masc voice now if I tried."
-Fem Voice Client after 4 months of sessions and 5 minutes of daily practice

"I just had a euphoric moment and there's only been one other time like that in my whole transition."
-Fem Voice Client in session

"I see what you mean now that I have to be happy with my voice. It does matter to me how other people perceive it but it matters most what I think."
-Fem Voice Client after 6 sessions, WRT + panting/phonation + daily practice

"I met with my surgeon this past weekend. They were blown away by my feminine voice. They actually said, 'I can tell you've been training and if I heard your voice elsewhere, I would assume you're a cisgender woman. They were relieved I wasn't considering pitch elevation surgery."
-Fem Voice Client after 1 year WRT + straw phonation + daily practice