Voice Therapy

Personalized therapy designed to restore, strengthen, and support your voice. Experience a holistic approach that treats both the function and the person behind the voice.

Understanding Voice Therapy

What is Voice Therapy?

Voice therapy is a highly specialized field within the broad discipline of Speech and Language Therapy. A specialist Voice Therapist most commonly will have completed basic studies as a Speech and Language Therapist / Speech Pathologist. Voice Therapy training involves specialized training,  numerous years of clinical experience and mentored supervision with a senior Voice Therapist.

Contemporary voice rehabilitation programs needs to address aspects of the total person, including physical, emotional, behavioral and cognitive.

A Holistic Approach to Voice Rehabilitation

Integrated Voice Therapy for the Body, Mind, Emotions.

The Integrated Voice Therapy approach to voice rehabilitation and voice training targets each these levels of the person in order to cater to the specific needs of each individual.

Voice therapy with the Integrated Voice Therapy approach does not require any experience with voice technique. We consider that absolutely every person can develop expert skills for safe and efficient voice use.

At the Level of

Body

We consider the physical aspects of the voice disorder. We evaluate each part of the vocal mechanism and develop specific, practical techniques for mechanical mastery of  each part of the vocal mechanism. The final result of this training means that voice production becomes predictable and the person who masters the techniques is rewarded with a sense of absolute control over how the voice feels and sounds, for any voicing endeavor.  The patient / learner is able to fully monitor the physical sensations associated with voicing and achieves mastery by evaluating and efficiently redirecting the voice mechanism towards predetermined vocal targets.  The practical techniques for mechanical control of the vocal mechanism are founded on Jo Estill’s and Alison Bagnal’s Voicecraft approach to voice training.

At the Level of

Mind

we consider how habits are created and maintained. We use targeted strategies from the scientific field of learning theories to develop specific processes for teaching the techniques to patients and voice students. We learn how to troubleshoot and overcome all the multi-level difficulties that the developing voice specialist experiences when trying to teach these new techniques to patients and/or voice learners.

At the Level of

Emotions

We consider developments from the scientific field of affective neuroscience that guide our understanding of the interplay between emotions, the subconscious and habits.  We approach emotions and the way they are involved in voicing and voice training from both the patient’s/learner’s and the therapist’s position. We consider how paramount it is to integrate guided consideration of the emotional parameters involved with voice for effective, long-term understanding and expertise in safe and efficient voice techniques.