This two-day course delivered with Christina Shewell MA, FRCSLT, ADVS aims to equip participants with a range of approaches and techniques to provide holistic and individualised treatment for clients across a spectrum of voice disorders.
Specific course content includes:
- Overview of common voice disorders and evaluation
- Perspectives from Psychology and Physiotherapy to optimise voice therapy
- Introduction to 6 areas of management and therapy tools
- Practical voice care techniques
- Techniques for release of excess muscle tension
- Breath techniques
- Voicing techniques
- Techniques for care of the client’s emotional state
- Mindfulness and Imagery techniques
- Experiential individual and pair-based practical work
- Comprehensive support material
Learning outcomes
Following the course, participants will be able to:
- Explore a range of approaches to optimise voice evaluation
- Select from a range of voice therapy ideas and techniques, to design appropriate voice work for individual clients
- Integrate principles of voice therapy with knowledge gained from practical experiential voice work, to enhance their own ‘therapy technique toolbox’.
Duration: 2 days
Fees: £400 before 14 March 2026 / £450 after 14 March 2026