Teun Loverbos
Tinnitus expert
As a manual therapist, Teun treated people with tinnitus for years. He knows the subject inside out and guards everything that makes it into the app — from every exercise to every explanation.
About us
No boardroom, no business plan — Freequency began as a chance encounter between a therapist with a question and a game maker with an answer.
Manual therapist Teun Loverbos kept seeing people with tinnitus in his practice — and too often had to send them home with the message to learn to live with it. At a networking event he told Rob Hulsen, who had been making games with a purpose for years. Neither of them could let that conversation go — and it became the start of Freequency.
Science pointed the way: tinnitus shows striking parallels with phantom pain, where mirror therapy makes the invisible visible. Jeffrey Lanters used game design to turn that insight into an app that places your tone into the space around you, and innovation specialist Sophie Asveld brought Freequency into healthcare. What began with four people grew into a team — and an app that is played every day.
