What to Expect in a Session
Each session ensures:
- One on one, personalized instruction
- Work that responds to your individual needs
- Use of pictures, charts, video, physical exercises, props, and specific instruction
- I listen
- I approach the work from many different angles
- 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
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
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
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
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
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
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.