Water Resistance Therapy (aka WRT or Water Bubbles), is a voice exercise that involves making sounds through a straw into water. This exercise helps the voice work more efficiently by creating gentle vibrations that research and clinical practice show can produce a massage-like effect on the vocal folds, strengthening and restoring its tissues as well as those along the vocal tract.

Research also suggests that WRT can improve how air flows through the voice box and improve how the vocal folds come together during speech. These changes can help reduce strain and make speaking or singing feel easier, contributing to a better laryngeal and vocal economy overall.

My unique curriculum uses WRT to support recovery and rehabilitation for people with voice issues caused by conditions such as short-term or long-term laryngitis, reflux disease, redness or swelling of the voice box, stiffening of the laryngeal mechanism, and other disorders that affect vocal quality.

Confidential Voice is a speech therapy technique that involves speaking in a soft, breathy voice to reduce strain on the vocal folds. Clients learn to speak in a breathy voice with slightly abducted vocal folds, while engaging the false vocal folds. For clients rehabilitating their voice, this reduces the force of the vocal folds colliding with each other, while moving the breath forward toward the soft palate and lips to teach forward resonance. Slowly but surely, each session, we work toward adding increased voice volume and pitch together with the strengthened resonance pattern to produce your restored conversational voice.

Straw Phonation is a type of Semi-Occluded Vocal Tract Exercise (SOVTE). Straw Phonation, like Water Bubbles, allows the voice to explore different sounds safely by allowing the client to move sound and breath through the straw. Air pressure resistance is created through the straw, which flows back through the vocal tract, and holds the vocal folds partially open, causing less impact, collision, and stress on the vocal folds, and increasing safety and ease. Producing sentences through the straw on a consistent, regular basis, is proven way to ease the load on the vocal folds while restoring and building strength in the vocal mechanism to regain conversational level control of your voice.