Vocal health and rehabilitation
Learn about safe voice use and techniques that will keep your voice in prime condition. I am a vocal rehabilitation coach and can help you on your journey back to loving your voice and what it can do. I will work with your clinical team and help you find the tools to safeguard your voice for the future.
Vocal health and rehabilitation
Learn about safe voice use and techniques that will keep your voice in prime condition. I am a vocal rehabilitation coach and can help you on your journey back to loving your voice and what it can do. I will work with your clinical team and help you find the tools to safeguard your voice for the future.
Trust your voice
Rebuild your confidence
Explore your vocal identity
Find a pathway towards recovery
Vocal health and rehabilitation coaching that takes care of you and your voice
Your voice is an essential part of who you are, and for an actor, singer, teacher or presenter the consequences of having difficulties with your voice can be far-reaching. You may have to face economic challenges, and will certainly find it emotionally draining. Your voice is so much more than the primary tool of your trade. It is key to your artistic expression and to your sense of self. When something is not right with your voice, whether it is a diagnosed vocal pathology, a voice problem caused by other health conditions or even just a feeling that something isn’t right, and isn’t working how it should, it can be extremely worrying.
I will work as part of a multi-disciplinary clinical team, to help build up confidence and vocal resilience. I can attend the voice clinic with you and work with your speech and language therapist, singing teacher and others in your team. I am trained in counselling skills, manual therapy, vocal massage, advanced anatomy and am a fully trained and qualified Voice Rehabilitation Specialist. We can work together to put you on a path to recovery and renewed confidence.
Vocal health and rehabilitation coaching that takes care of you and your voice
Your voice is an essential part of who you are, and for an actor, singer, teacher or presenter the consequences of having difficulties with your voice can be far-reaching. You may have to face economic challenges, and will certainly find it emotionally draining. Your voice is so much more than the primary tool of your trade. It is key to your artistic expression and to your sense of self. When something is not right with your voice, whether it is a diagnosed vocal pathology, a voice problem caused by other health conditions or even just a feeling that something isn’t right, and isn’t working how it should, it can be extremely worrying.
I will work as part of a multi-disciplinary clinical team, to help build up confidence and vocal resilience. I can attend the voice clinic with you and work with your speech and language therapist, singing teacher and others in your team. I am trained in counselling skills, manual therapy, vocal massage, advanced anatomy and am a fully trained and qualified Voice Rehabilitation Specialist. We can work together to put you on a path to recovery and renewed confidence.
Rediscover the joy of singing
I work holistically in a bio-psycho-social model to rediscover the positivity and joy in your vocal performance. In other words, I work not just with the simple mechanics of singing, but with the whole person in front of me.
After diagnosis and initial treatment
Once diagnosed, treated and advised by ENT, your clinical team and I can work together to get you back to being the best singer you can be.
Vocal ‘Prehab’
If you suffer from fatigue after singing, I can run through the sound tenets of safe vocal technique with reminders on breathing and alignment and a healthy, balanced phonation to prevent injury occurring in the first instance.
Evidence-based programme
All of your vocal training exercises will come from thoroughly researched vocal practices, with keen attention to the most up to date thinking about safe and healthy vocal use.
Expert connections
I can share my contacts, experience and knowledge to tread the difficult vocal health path carefully, ethically and confidently, referring you to the right team if you need further investigation or diagnosis.
Safeguard your voice
If you sing in or represent a group that has a very intense period of vocal activity to manage, then let me help you to monitor your vocal health, and make the right decisions about vocal management during and after the event.
“I work with singers who have had vocal injury and who, after their clinical and rehabilitation interventions, are desperate to rebuild their confidence and vocal identity.”
“I work with singers who have had vocal injury and who, after their clinical and rehabilitation interventions, are desperate to rebuild their confidence and vocal identity.”
Our voice is one of our most precious communication assets
We need to look after our voice to keep it safe and functioning properly. However many people have to work in environments which put their voice at risk. I can help you protect your voice and feel confident.
Our voice is one of our most precious communication assets
We need to look after our voice to keep it safe and functioning properly. However many people have to work in environments which put their voice at risk. I can help you protect your voice and feel confident.
Voice injury is as common and as inevitable as physical injury is for an athlete
It should not be stigmatised or judged, and nearly all vocal functional problems can be resolved one way or another. Once suitable medical treatment has been sought, I can take over the reins and bring confidence to see the singer through to full performance again.
Voice injury is as common and as inevitable as physical injury is for an athlete
It should not be stigmatised or judged, and nearly all vocal functional problems can be resolved one way or another. Once suitable medical treatment has been sought, I can take over the reins and bring confidence to see the singer through to full performance again.
Talks and warm-ups
Online or in-person
Talks and warm-ups for groups and individuals, concentrating on healthy breathing and alignment. Information for choirs, school singing ensembles and individuals who want to safeguard their voices against fatigue and injury in busy periods.
One-to-one Vocal Health and Rehabilitation
Online or in-person
One-to-one singing lessons and vocal health and rehabilitation work for those who are recovering from vocal injuries or setbacks.
Vocal Health Workshops
Online or in-person
Choral or group workshops focused on safeguarding the voice during busy or high intensity vocal periods. I can take your choir through the steps they need to take to stay as fresh as possible, with purpose-built warm-up and cool-down strategies designed to fit the project in question, and with presentations on the most up-to-date thinking on best vocal practice.
“After working with Nicki my voice is now back to full capacity.”
“After my vocal problems, I really struggled with my confidence in performing and my voice as a whole but now, seven months later, not only is my voice back to full capacity, and better, my confidence is increasing with every lesson. Nicki is and has always been hugely supportive and reassuring which has helped almost as much as her expertise.”
Laura Callander
“Nicki is an expert at managing vocal behaviour and gaining trust and confidence.”
“I worked on collaboration with Nicki and a child who had benign acquired vocal nodules. It is notoriously difficult working with young children with this condition as direct work is often not possible and it’s mainly about adapting the environment, adjusting expectations and managing vocal behaviour. In all of these areas Nicki was expert. She gained the trust and confidence of both the mother and child and so the child made progress.”
Cathy Maclennan – Speech and Language Therapist
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