What to Expect in a Session


Each session ensures:
- One on one, personalized approach
- Work that responds to your individual needs
- Use of pictures, charts, video, physical exercises, props, and specific instruction (when appropriate)
- I listen
- I approach the work from many different angles; combining different methodologies
- Collaborative work – we are a team
- Honest, fair, and kind guidance
- You leave with practical tools to immediately apply


Voice Work
- Efficient body use
- Healthy vocal support
- Increase power and resonance
- Techniques for clear and intentional communication
- Somatic and Kinesthetic exploration
- Manage your breath
- Form a physical relationship with sound
Speech/Accent Training
- Clear articulation skills
- Be understood more easily
- Accent acquisition
- Gain an awareness of the vocal tract and the articulators
- Learn how to healthfully make any sound you want
- Flexibility, fluidity, precision, and strength in speech
- Noticeable results
Presence
- Hear, see, experience, and connect to the world around you
- Experience being seen and heard regularly
- Clear communication – your message lands
- Practical techniques to come back to the moment
- Speak from an authentic place
- Open yourself in a way that invites others to do the same
- Learn how to resource when feeling threatened or unsure of your surroundings
- Techniques to build and maintain healthy boundaries
Somatic Sound – Sound Healing/Energy Work:
- Relaxing sessions that support your whole being – mental, physical, energetic, and emotional
- Compassionate approach to help you find balance
- Each session uniquely designed for you and your needs
- Combination of Sound Therapy, Reiki, Pranic Healing, and Somatic Integration
- Receive a Biomat treatment – using NASA technology to relieve muscular aches and pains, increase circulation, strengthen immune system, and heighten feelings of peace and ease
- Maintain feeling of groundedness for days, weeks, or months after (results vary from person to person)
- Support during difficult times or transitions
- Excellent self care
Methodology
Body-Mind Centering (BMC)
- Developed by Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen
- Anatomical, physiological, psychophysical, and developmental practice
- Embodiment and integration of voice and movement
- Somatic work that re-patterns habitual muscular use, breath, use of vocal support, and presence
Find out more about it here: www.bodymindcentering.com
Sound Therapy
- Practice found throughout the world from ancient to modern times
- Ambient sound brings the parasympathetic nervous system online
- Direct sound application eases muscular aches, tension, etc.
- Not a medical treatment, it aids in recovery from surgery, effects from chemotherapy, and more
Fitzmaurice Voicework
- Developed by Catherine Fitzmaurice
- Holistic approach to voicework
- Destructuring – relaeases chronically held muscular tension inhibiting the breath.
- Restructuring – a new way of supporting the breath
- Clear, healthy, resonant, instinctual sound
Find out more about it here: www.fitzmauricevoice.com
Reiki
- Developed in Japan – lineage of Master Usui
- Certified Reiki Master Teacher
- Energy work that can be done remotely or in-person
- Results vary but almost always produce a sense of comfort and ease
- Excellent for anyone – therapeutic in nature
Presence/Second Circle
- Developed by Patsy Rodenburg
- Deeper connection to yourself, people and your environment
- Allows effective communication
- Feel that your message is received
- Know what it is to be seen and heard
- Effortless power
- Positive communication skills
- Noticeable and lasting results
Pranic Healing
- As taught by Master Stephen Co
- System of Energy work that can be done remotely or in person
- Excellent for clearing old mental, physical, and emotional energy
Knight-Thompson Speechwork
- Developed by Dudley Knight and Phil Thompson
- Experiential, practical, and anatomically sound practices
- Develop an awareness of the whole vocal tract
- Manipulate the vocal tract
- Make any sound in human possibility safely, precisely, and fluidly
- Quickly and effectively pick up an accent
Find out more about it here: ktspeechwork.com
Additionally, I am certified as both a yoga and a meditation teacher and I utilize those practices in my work.