I'm Frieder.
I have tinnitus too.
I started this work because nothing I was told actually helped. "Live with it" isn't a method. So I went and studied Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, built a practice around it, and started sharing what worked on YouTube.
What I do is not medical advice. I'm a coach, not a clinician. It's a way of practising — built on real evidence, tested with hundreds of clients, taught by someone who knows how the inside of this feels.
Why I do this.
I was born deaf in my left ear. I've worn a hearing aid in my right ear my entire life. Hearing has always been complicated for me — but it was manageable. Then tinnitus arrived, and the sound I had lived with all my life became something different. Something that felt threatening.
I did what everyone does. I saw doctors. I saw ENTs. I saw audiologists. They were thorough, they were kind, and they told me — correctly — that there was nothing medicine could do. What I wasn't given was a way forward. "Learn to live with it" is not a method. It is an ending without a next chapter.
So I went looking. I found Acceptance and Commitment Therapy — a psychological approach that wasn't trying to make tinnitus go away, but was working on something more important: the relationship between a person and their suffering. I studied it. I applied it to my own tinnitus. And slowly, across months, the sound stopped running my day. It was still there. I just stopped fighting it.
I started sharing what I had learned on YouTube — first just talking about the ideas, then coaching people individually. Over several years and more than 700 people, I have seen the same thing again and again: the sound is not the problem. The nervous system's response to the sound is. And that response can change.
Not a cure. A way of practising.
What you learn
The sound is not the problem
Two people can have identical tinnitus — same pitch, same volume — and live completely different lives. The difference is not the sound. It is what the brain does with it.
How it works
The nervous system can learn
The threat response that keeps tinnitus loud and frightening is learned. Which means it can be unlearned — not through willpower, but through practice, over time, with the right tools.
Where it goes
You don't have to do this alone
In the programme you are surrounded by people who do not need the sound explained to them. People heal faster in community. That matters more than most people expect.
From people who came in tired and walked out lighter.
Within 2 or 3 days of immersing myself in the app, I said to my husband, 'This is gonna get me better.' I just felt there was hope there.
The thing that surprised me the most was — all of a sudden I realised I didn't react to it. I wasn't expecting it. Now I'm back to living.
Having those weekly calls was vital — connecting with other members going through what you've been through. It was a lifesaver for me.
I'm not going to sell you a cure.
There isn't one — and anyone who tells you otherwise is misleading you. What I can offer is the approach that has worked for me and for hundreds of people I have coached: a way of practising that changes how your nervous system responds to the sound.
If that sounds like something worth trying, the best place to start is the free assessment. It takes four minutes, it costs nothing, and it will tell you honestly whether this is the right fit for you — before you commit to anything.
Things people ask about me.
Yes. The tinnitus is still there. What changed is my relationship to it — which is exactly what the programme teaches. I am not someone who used to have tinnitus and now wants to help others. I am someone for whom it became manageable, and who has spent years learning how to teach that process.
Not sure where to start? Take the free assessment — it takes four minutes. →