MY APPROACH TO VOICE COACHING

 
 
 

Basic Approach
We work together to clarify your needs and how to address those needs. Rather than “fixing” your voice, I help you find a richer, healthier access to your voice while you learn to use it more effectively. 

Focus Areas
Depending on your needs, we can focus on these and other areas:

Voice Development and Care:

  • Find Your Voice: find and use your voice in healthy, clear, open-hearted, and creative ways.

  • Increase Vocal Power & Freedom: strengthen your voice, increase resonance, reduce vocal fatigue, free a high, tight, or monotone voice.

  • Undo Harmful Habits: learn to speak or sing in ways that prevent or heal vocal nodules. This can be done in conjunction with medical professionals.

Breathing, Presence, and Embodiment

  • Free Your Breathing: learn to breathe more freely. (for more information, see articles about breathing in Writings)

  • Develop Presence and Embodiment: learn to take up space, develop greater vibrancy and receptivity, and speak in an embodied way.

  • Integrate Physical Exercise and Voice: discover how exercise and Voicework can support each other, or hinder each other, depending on your approach.

Manage Stress and Anxiety

  • Feel More Grounded and Focused: learn practices to help you manage stress and anxiety.

  • Play with Challenges: experience how play and pleasure can unlock vocal challenges.

  • Experience Pressure as a Positive: transform stress responses into supportive experiences.

Communication Skills

  • Improve Communication: develop your ability to communicate clearly, expressively, and effectively in a variety of contexts.

  • Hone Your Receptivity: enhance your listening skills.

  • Individualize Your Vocal Warm-up: develop a personal warm-up that helps you communicate more easily and effectively.

My Influences
I am a certified teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®--which offers a wealth of perspective and exercises. I also draw upon a variety of other approaches to address your needs.

Approaches to Learning
The work will be conceptual, experiential and practical, and the emphasis will change as needed. 

  • Why Conceptual? Because how you understand something affects how you do it.

  • Why Experiential? Because it’s not enough just to understand something. In order to learn something deeply, you also need to experience it directly.

  • Why Practical? Because it’s important that our work is useful outside of the studio.

 

What I offer:

  • Private Voice Coaching
    Private Voice Lessons in my Los Angeles studio, your location, or remotely provide the opportunity to focus on your specific needs.

  • Voice Workshops
    Voice Workshops (offered in Los Angeles, nationally, internationally, and in your location) provide significant immersion in a short period.

  • Voice Classes
    Voice Classes for Performers in Los Angeles provide regular opportunities to work on your voice.