The purpose of The Vocal Esteem Questionnaire is to gain an understanding of some of the difficulties people experience when expressing themselves. The project was born out of an understanding that people experience problems while speaking and singing with others. There is very little research in this field, and little understanding of how pervasive self-expression challenges are experienced. The Vocal Esteem Questionnaire was developed by Miriam van Mersbergen and Jeremy de Tolly.
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About the researchers
Miriam van Mersbergen
Miriam van Mersbergen is Assistant Professor in the School of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at the University of Memphis. Dr. van Mersbergen directs the Voice Emotion and Cognition Laboratory, which uses a multidimensional approach to investigate how emotional experience and cognitive factors influence vocalization and communication.
Jeremy de Tolly
Jeremy de Tolly is a singer, Vocal Transformation Coach and certified Trauma Releasing specialist whose work focuses on unblocking stuck speaking and singing voices.
Creator of the Radiant Voices Process®, Jeremy has taught this tested framework to hundreds of clients in person or online. In the process, they learn to overcome a lifetime of vocal trauma, including social anxiety, fear of speaking to groups, a fear of singing and the belief that they can’t sing in tune.
