Once fully qualified, our accredited Vocal Health First Aiders and Vocal Habilitation Professionals and Voice Rehabilitation Specialists are invited to continue their professional development with us and become a Vocal Health Education Member.
If you are looking for a practitioner, please see the list below of qualified members and their contact details.
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Voice Rehabilitation Specialists
Specialist Members
What is a Voice Rehabilitation Specialist?
The Voice Rehabilitation Specialist (VRS) has an elite level of training, involving a significant commitment to multi-disciplinary study. Successful graduates of the VHP course are eligible to be considered for the VRS pathway. This pathway delivers a unique breadth of training, delivering the theory behind voice rehabilitation within the practical applications of the biopsychosocial model. The qualified VRS will be able to rehabilitate voice users who have vocal injuries, usually as part of an integrated team.
Voice Rehabilitation Specialists
Aliki Katriou – Rijeka, Croatia
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Jenna Brown, Bristol Voice Care – Bristol, UK
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Keesha Mclean, Cairns Voice Studio and Cairns Voice Care – Cairns, Australia
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Nicki Kennedy – Jersey & London, UK
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Philippa Poulton – Heathfield and Lewes, UK
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Gillian Ramm – Brighton/Hove and Lewes, UK
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Amber Mogg Cathey – Nashville, TN • Denver, CO
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Sian Winstanley – Scotland, Glasgow (Helensburgh)
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Elizabeth Ann Benson – Auburn, AL (USA
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Vocal Habilitation Professional
What is a
Vocal Habilitation Professional?
This qualification gives singing teachers and voice teachers the ability to work with singers and other voice users who have been experiencing problems relating to their vocal health. They will have completed Vocal Health First Aid (including assessments) before they can join the Vocal Habilitation Professional pathway.
To complete the training the VHP needs to have at least 1,000 hours of teaching experience or direct client interactions, plus at least 20 hours of study from continuing professional development providers. The qualified VHP will also need to comply with the legal frameworks of their own country. In the UK we expect a VHP to have DBS checks, Safeguarding training, and the relevant professional insurance cover.
Vocal Habilitation Professionals
Melanie Topley – Northern Ireland (Co. Tyrone) and Online
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Carmel De Losinno (Gare) – Melbourne, Australia
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Louisa Barry – London, UK
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Amy Thompson – Southampton, UK
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Guro Dugstad – Bergen, Norway
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Rob Lines – Manchester, UK
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Gitte-Maj Donoghue – Jersey, UK
Petra Lang – Frankfurt, Germany
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Paulina Kordylas – Poznań, Poland
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Gemma Milburn – Cumbria and Online
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Nichola Leech – Voice Care Ireland
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Melissa Toy – New Zealand
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Sara Brites – Lisbon
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Kalliope Coplin – Singapore
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Linda Ryan – Co. Tipperary, Ireland
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Jennifer Langton – Manchester, UK
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Michael Mandalios – Glasgow
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Samantha Robertson – Melbourne, Australia
Phoebe Driver – Hastings East Sussex
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Lindsey Runnette – Bushey Heath, UK
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Lily Rose Moharrer – Leeds and Online
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Winnie Ching Yu Tang – Hong Kong and Online
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Ken Querns
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Kerry Hurley – Limerick, Ireland
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Cornelia Schmitt – Copenhagen, Denmark
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Lourdes González – Puerto Rico
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Vocal Health First Aid
What is a Vocal Health First Aider?
- They have an understanding of vocal health and the factors that can affect vocal wellbeing.
- They have practical skills to spot the signs of a range of vocal dysfunction and imbalance.
- They have knowledge to help someone towards recovery by:
– Guiding them in self-management, or
– Passing them on to further support, whether that is specialist vocal rehabilitation coaching or clinical treatment - They have an understanding of how to safeguard singers and voice users in the workplace or occupational setting.
Vocal Health First Aiders
Anna Prosser – Sheffield, UK
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Beth Aggett
Giorgia Mel
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Todd Keys – Vocal Straws Australia
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Loreto Murray
Kate Lynch
Louisa Morgan – Exeter, UK
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Philly Dunscombe
Mariia Bukhanets
Ruth Moore
Emma Torry – Edinburgh, UK
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Nicky Copley
Jessa Liversidge
Luise Horrocks
Sarah Clucas
Jonathan Sturcken – New Orleans, LA, USA
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Pippa Goss – Manchester, UK
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Sarah Prescott – Surrey/ Lancashire, UK
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Jessa Liversidge – North Yorkshire, UK
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Yula Andrews
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Rachael Delano – Halifax, NS, Canada
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Jackie Turner – Queensland, Australia
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Abigail Mann-Daraz – Hampshire
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Irene Di Vilio
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Sophie Price – Walthamstow, East London
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Sophie Richings – Swindon, Wiltshire
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Debi Weaver – Chippenham, Wiltshire
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Laura Donohue – Nashville, USA
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Helen Austwick – West Yorkshire, UK
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Kim Edwards – Fleet, Hampshire
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Maureen Bradley – Los Angeles, CA
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Olivia Earl -UK
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Polly Beck
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Deborah Norman
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Sara De Sanctis – London, UK
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Diana North – Lindford, Hampshire
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Gina Walters, Sheffield UK
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Heg Brignall – Tavistock, Devon
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Alice Simmons– Marlborough, UK
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Martyna Siatkowska
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Alice Wratten– Hampshire, UK
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Hannah Sanderson – Ely, Cambridgeshire (UK)
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Michelle Hutcheson
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Jennifer Burks
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Roc Lui – Hong Kong
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Emelie McNamara
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Julie Moffat – Leicestershire, UK
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Lydia Bell – London/Essex
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Alicia Ballard – Greater Manchester, UK
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Marisa del Campo – New York, NY
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Jasmine Pearce – North Walsham, Norfolk
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AJ Gibson – Buckinghamshire/Berkshire Border, UK
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Kathryn Kerley – Newton Abbot, Devon
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Polly Cross
Ashleigh Herndon – New York, NY
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Kate Huddie – North Derbyshire & Manchester, UK
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Katherine Lally – Manchester, UK
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Ashleigh Herndon – New York, NY
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Jenny Rust – Salford, UK
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Benjamin Levy- London, UK
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Sarah Stone – London, UK
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HonFVHFE
Honorary Fellow
This level of membership is reserved for those who are leaders in the field of Voice Rehabilitation and Therapy after dedicating years of their professional lives to helping care for peoples’ voices.
This is an invited membership level, with 3 Honorary Fellowships awarded each year.
Our first Honorary Fellowship was awarded to Christina Shewell on the 30th January 2022.
Christina Shewell
Christina Shewell, MA, FRCSLT ADVS, is a spoken voice teacher, and speech / language therapist, and has long working experience with a wide range of clients in both voice therapy and voice development. She has particular expertise in working with performers, and other professional voice users.
For 11 years, she was senior lecturer in voice and counselling skills at University College London, has been a staff member of major British acting schools, a coach in the business world and has spoken at many conferences. She leads a wide range of training courses, both nationally and internationally.
Christina’s book Voice Work: Art and Science in Changing Voices (2009) addresses voice work along the continuum of normal-abnormal voice, in singing, spoken voice coaching and voice pathology, and is a core text for a wide range of voice practitioners. She has a particular interest in the relevance of mindfulness and imagery in voice work and well-being, and in the links between voice, neuroscience, body and emotions.
Her most recent article, Poetry, Voice, Brain and Body is published in the July 2020 Voice and Speech Review – the journal of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA).
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