We fundamentally believe adverse mental health problems are symptoms of prior life traumas.
“It’s not what’s wrong with you (the symptoms) it’s what happened to you (the cause).”
We have studied and worked together since 1992, studying human behaviour and psychology for seven decades between us.
We both share an uncontainable passion to offer hope, and to help people lead happier and less inhibited lives.
After many remarkable breakthroughs, we created our own behavioural change therapy, ‘Schema Conditioning.’®
Subsequent work with trauma victims and their related symptoms, led to the creation of two further trauma-based therapies.
Qualifications from the creation of our therapies led to requests to train psychology professors, doctors and also masters students at universities in The Netherlands (Amsterdam and Utrecht).
In 2015, our training produced two sets of scientific studies conducted into the workings of our therapy compared with EMDR.
In June 2019 the first of two study papers highlighting our therapy’s efficacy was published in
Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry.
In April 2021 a third study published in the European Journal of Psychotraumatology and confirmed similar efficacy.
In March 2024 a clinical study with PTSD patients was published in Frontiers in Psychiatry. The clinical study supports VSDT’s efficacy in treating PTSD, offering a valuable therapeutic option comparable to EMDR.
In addition to members of the public, we work with and have treated many high-profile clients and ‘A’ list clients from around the world, also having prodigious successes. We are resident therapists on ITV’s multi award-winning ‘This Morning’ and have been for twelve years. We have also had our own television shows, one of which, ‘The Speakmans’, also aired on ITV and several countries worldwide. Over the last two decades, we have appeared on numerous other television shows as experts, such as the multi award-winning ‘Saturday Night Takeaway’.
Our mission is to illuminate that there is ALWAYS HOPE, and overcoming trauma and improving quality of life is entirely possible.
Many people have either never been given hope, or worse, they have had hope taken away from them.
Our primary aim is to correct this by sharing the message of hope in any way that we can, including live workshops, theatre tours, books, podcasts, radio, television, social media and YouTube.
At the heart of all we do lies this relentless mission to offer HOPE - to as many people as we possibly can.
