A Voice Apart

The Non-Surgicalvoice repair course is a very serious endeavor for both the voice sufferer and the voice repair specialist. Needless to say, the voice repair clients come usually upset, frustrated and in a majority of cases, somewhat depressed.   Quite a few of them literally lost they’re speaking and singing careers, or just simply their jobs.   So they do have a very good reason to be upset, and yes, depressed. However, obviously those emotions are not helping the cause. So I have to be a very good psychologist, and in some cases, even a psychiatrist to be able to attend to the vocally troubled person. Obviously, the concept of my methodology is the same for everybody. However, the way I am solving their voice and vocal issues is almost every time different. I compare it with a headache. You can get rid of the headache applying different means, i.e., medical drugs, herbal remedies, deep tissue manipulation massage, or what have you.

“I’m not a reborn Christian, I am a reborn human,” said Karen Gundling, my recent voice repair client from Ottawa, Ontario.  Like many of my other clients, Karen lived with her voice disorder for almost two decades.  She had seen many medical professionals, alternative doctors, and nevertheless, speech therapists. To all of them, she had been complaining about the pain in her throat, her neck and her shoulder, evidently associated with that.  Practically all of them told her that it is “all in her head”.  Only one of the specialists was able to diagnose her with muscle tension dysphonia (MTD) , but like everybody else, he was not able to administrate any kind of treatment which would help Karen to get rid of her nagging pain while speaking.  Needless to say, she was devastated and practically was ready to give up on life.  She is a very vibrant and boisterous person who loves to talk a lot. Some of the so-called medical professionals ordered her to keep silent fo