A passing voice people listen to, not question

Yes. The beauty of the method is that it fundamentally explores the function of the voice. The principles of the method can be applied to any languages. The teacher certification program currently have coaches who teach in Portuguese, Spanish, Croatian and German. If you specifically need services in those langugages, please reach out to contact@vamethod.com

Interestingly, the deciding factor on whether a voice is suitable for voice feminization is not whether the voice is low or high, but rather how well the voice can access the baseline vocal functions. This is why the intial Tonal Breakthrough Evaluation is so important. The evaluation immediately reveal what is needed. But no matter what your vocal condition is when you arrive, VAMethod is capable of developign the voice because VAMethod is a developmental framework that can bring your voice from point A to point B.

Unlike other program whose goal is to give you a collection of exercise for you to practice at home, VAMethod's definition of success is a permanent passing voice that is authentic to you. When that is the final goal, a 1 year commitment is not long. In fact, if you want fast result, VAMethod can give most people a passing voice within 2 sessions. But the voice does not consolidate new behaviours in a single session — and training without enough frequency produces exactly the kind of unstable results most clients have already experienced elsewhere. Complete voice feminization and voice masculinization is a significant commitment. Committing to less time is not a smaller version of the same result — it is an incomplete process. While the program wishes every client to achieve the voice in the shortest amount of time possible, and some clients can achieve the results in as short as 2 months, it is necessary to be prepared for 1 year of commitment in order to protect the integrity of the work and the reliability of what you take away from it.

This is NOT speech therapy. This is a vocal development framework that builds vocal functions. But a licensed speech therapist does not automatically make them qualified for this work. A speech therapy's education does not include learning how to train and develop the voice. Many SLPs are working in the teacher certificate program to learn how to tran voices. If you are adamant about working with an SLP, please contact contact@vamethod.com to inquire about working with a fellow SLP.

VAMethod works with voices at every stage, including those with no prior training at all. Beginning without prior training can actually be an advantage — you arrive without compensations built around incorrect instructions or the frustration of progress that repeatedly failed to hold. All clients who have never studied VAMethod is considered a beginner, despite however many years of training they have received. The evaluation session assesses your voice exactly as it is, not against a standard of where you should be. Whether you are completely new or have trained for years, the process is the same: understand the function, build the foundation, activate the coordination, consolidate the result.

Yes, but only to certain clients. Not everyone is a good candidate for gender affirming voice training. That is why, VAMethod requires an application process to ensure this method is a good fit. Only clients who Jimmy is confident in will be inivted to the Bespoke training program, a custome tailored program designed for people who want total vocal change, you will be given a timeline and frequency for how long it will take to acheive a voice that no longer get misgendered, consistent across all settings, and pitch range expansion over 2 musical octaves. If you don't achieve this by the proposed timeline, 100% moneyback guaratee. That is how confident the method is in its ability to produce progress. The bespoke program is a high frequency program that meets 2x per week and requires a minimum 7 months commitment.

VAMethod does not take insurance because 1, it is not a medical procedure. Gender affirming voice training is a skill, not a disease to be fixed. 2. Not taking insurance allows maximum flexibility in training. All insurance limits the amount of sessions to 8 to 12. That is not enough for any results to meaninfully integrate. VAMethod is expensive because the method is elite and only a handful of people know how to properly develop the voice. But most importantly, your voice deserves the best. Will you feel comfortable for a budget surgeon to operate on your voice? If not, why would you want a budget coach to train your voice?

VAMethod does not offer a one size fits all curriculum. It is an adjustment process that adapts to where your voice is at the moment. The coach listens to your voice, and identifies any functional inefficieies that is holding your voice back from executing the desired gender expressions. Then they create a musical pattern consisting of pitch, vowel and intensity that activates a more optimal vocal behavior. Through consistent adjustment, the voice is exercised through a logical developmental sequence that ultimately gets the voice to attain the functional ability to execute the desired gender expression

Yes — VAM is built around listening to the quality of the sound, which does not get lost through online meeting. All testimonials are from clients who trained exclusively online.All client info is stored safely and VAMethod upholds the highest standard for confidentiality.

Each session is 30 min and $200. The bespoke program starts at a minimum $10k+ investment. The money directly subsdize the teacher certification program that trains the next generation of elite gender affirming coaches.