Stress, Emotions, &
Trauma Work
Stress, emotions and trauma work can help you to explore how stress, emotions and trauma show up in your breath, body and manifest in your voice.
This work can include stress and trauma related to any form of communication and/or vocal expression. It also can be for those who completed traditional voice/ swallowing/ speech therapy with a more traditional Speech-Language Pathologist but feel that they want to get to the deeper source of their disorder or injury. In my experience, working with these tools can profoundly increase the efficacy of tools already being used.
Through this type of work you can learn how to express emotions or parts of yourself that don’t otherwise get much airtime. This work draws upon my primary vocal lineage of Alfred Wolfsohn and Roy Hart, my work as a Somatic Experiencing® Professional, as well as my training in Somatic Resilience and Regulation. I have studied the intersection of breath and trauma with Betsy Polatin, and perinatal/early developmental trauma with Kathy Kain and Steve Terrell. Interestingly, working with trauma does not have to be difficult or draining.
In fact, from the modalities from which I work, the goal is for you to leave each session feeling more deeply resourced, embodied, and in touch with your inner spark. This work can be incredibly playful and even fun, and can allow for a reconnection with a sense of curiosity. It is incredibly beautiful to witness how working through trauma can lead to joyful liberation of the voice.