Voice Therapy

What is in the way of your voice?

Voice lessons are wonderful for enhancing your singing skills, moving energy, and relieving stress and tension. However, if you’re experiencing issues such as PTVD (Post-Traumatic Voice Disorder), performance anxiety, or even a physical condition like acid reflux, there may be deeper root causes that we can gently explore together to help you restore your voice and find healing.

Over the years, I have had the privilege of helping many singers recover from a variety of dis-eases, illnesses, and performance anxieties. My goal has always been to guide them in rediscovering their voices, whether that means stepping back onto the stage or finding their strength for everyday life.

To truly transform, we must have the willingness to break free from repeating old habits and the courage to explore our inner truths. This process can change everything. It begins with understanding that we are all energetic beings, and when this energy is blocked, it affects our voice.

The E-Motions: Energy-in-motion

While air is the physical element needed for voice production, emotions are what colour the voice with depth and authenticity. Emotions such as joy, sadness, anger, or love affect how we use our voice. They influence the voice in every way, from how loudly or softly we speak, how quickly or slowly we talk, and the tone and colour of the voice.

When we are emotionally engaged, our voice naturally reflects those feelings. We all know it when we hear a singer that is connected to his or her emotions and the voice is soaring freely with emotional expression.

Lost Connection

When we lose touch with our emotional connection, our voice can sometimes become flat, mechanical, and lacking in life. This disconnection happens when we are not in tune with our feelings or struggle to channel our emotions into our vocal expressions.

For example, a singer who is technically proficient but emotionally detached may hit every note perfectly but fail to move the audience. Similarly, a speaker who is uninterested or disengaged might present information in a way that feels monotonous and unconvincing.

The Re-Connection

Reconnecting with your emotions to sing with freedom and clarity involves a gentle process of uncovering what’s been buried under stress and tension. Through this therapy, we will work together to peel away these layers, allowing your true voice, your emotions, and your authentic self to emerge and shine.

The Natural Voice training - An integral part of your recover is healing the voice through voice lessons and especially the exercises that are from the Uncovering The School of Singing. They are therapeutic in nature and will do wonders for your voice recovery and connecting you to your emotions.

IBP therapy sessions - Integrative Body Psychotherapy is a gentle and holistic approach that delves into how energy moves through the body and the stories that emerge from this energy. During our sessions, we combine thoughtful conversation with a deep, intuitive listening to your body’s responses. (website for IBP) Anna is Certified in IBP.

Through tender body movements and calming physical exercises, we aim to bring any blocks or tensions in your energy flow into your conscious awareness. This process helps you understand and integrate these blocks, fostering a sense of healing and balance.

The flow of energy in the body can be blocked by false beliefs and stuck emotions, but helping this energy flow freely again is a vital part of the healing and reconnection process.

**If you’re interested in learning more about these gentle and respectful sessions, please don’t hesitate to reach out. I truly believe that understanding how your energy flows can offer you beautiful insights into how your voice flows and blossoms within you.

IBP therapy sessions - Integrative Body Psychotherapy is a gentle and holistic approach that delves into how energy moves through the body and the stories that emerge from this energy. During our sessions, we combine thoughtful conversation with a deep, intuitive listening to your body’s responses. (website for IBP) Anna is Certified in IBP.

Through tender body movements and calming physical exercises, we aim to bring any blocks or tensions in your energy flow into your conscious awareness. This process helps you understand and integrate these blocks, fostering a sense of healing and balance.

The flow of energy in the body can be blocked by false beliefs and stuck emotions, but helping this energy flow freely again is a vital part of the healing and reconnection process.

**If you’re interested in learning more about these gentle and respectful sessions, please don’t hesitate to reach out. I truly believe that understanding how your energy flows can offer you beautiful insights into how your voice flows and blossoms within you.

Vocal Improvisation - Voice improvisation with a ‘no rules’ approach is a powerful way to release tension and improve your voice. An hour of improvising, movement, and breathing can lead to surprising progress. I’ve developed many creative techniques over the years to help voices open and heal.

If you’re ready to uncover your voice and explore your true expression, please reach out. I’m committed to helping you achieve the singing and self-expression you desire.

Authenticity - There can be many personalities in us that cover over our authenticity and prevent us from singing from our whole selves. I call these personalities Storefronts.

The Storefronts are attempting to protect the singer or speaker from too much vulnerability and so put a veil over the singer which protects the singer but also locks out the ability for them to be authentic and free.

I use the brilliant model of Voice Dialogue to discern who is covering over the singer and therefore their authentic connection to themselves, their voice and the connection to the audience.

Examples of the Storefront (also on the home page) - performer, seeker, silent one, chameleon. Also the larger identifications in ones life such as the - critic, judge, perfectionist, patriarch (shadow king) and many, many more.

The goal here is to see who it is that comes in-between you and your audience in order to protect you from something that is no longer happening.