Transgender
Voice training
Are you on the way to finding your identity?
Would you like to make changes to your speech and voice?
Do you want to express yourself in your work and are often discouraged by social conditions?
The voice training work includes speech and voice exercises as well as, in particular, self-awareness.
The focus here is on feeling the resonance of the voice in the body (e.g. how do I use my face and head when speaking?
during vocal exercises, right?).
It is also about how you can express yourself vocally according to your individual needs. How do your breathing, movement, posture, expression, voice and energy influence each other?
What "old patterns" (e.g. of posture/movement) are you holding back?
Audio example
The main focuses of voice therapy are
- Breathing and tension/relaxation
- Body awareness, especially of breathing, movement, posture and expression of the voice, voice and role patterns, etc.
- Voice exercises
- Speech melody (prosody), emphasis and experiments with the voice
- Gestalt therapy counseling for perception on various levels (including the senses, feelings, memory)
- Exercises to try to identify with the "old" - the "new" voice
- Awareness of personal concerns
- How can I feel coherent in professional or private communication and express my identity? (Exercises with creative media)
- Opportunity to meet at the voting table.
How we can help you
- If you have a voice disorder, your health insurance will cover the costs.
- As a self-payer, you will incur costs based on the services provided by the statutory health insurance companies
If you would like an individual consultation regarding possible therapy planning and individual voice therapy treatment, you will find our contact details in the Contact section.
Please note that you first need a prescription from a competent doctor, more information can be found under Home.
Gestalt therapy counseling
with transgender clients
What is life like as a trans woman or trans man before the breakthrough?
Perhaps it is the same as with the retained impulses. Let me illustrate this with an example from James Kepner: a storage room under the roof has often been locked for years and we haven't entered it for a long time. I only know roughly that there is still an old cuddly toy there. I only remember the gleam in its eyes when I come into contact with it and open the long-closed door....
I am Kirsten Müller, a qualified speech and language therapist and Gestalt therapist. In my practice I meet people who have often had the feeling for many years or decades that they are stuck in a male body as a woman or in a female body as a man. They sometimes go down a path marked by self-doubt and agony of decision before they decide to live the life they long for. If you register with us for voice training, you can also receive counseling sessions with a Gestalt therapy focus in addition to holistic voice therapy. Gestalt here means staying experience-oriented, with your own experience and is strongly focused on feelings.
Just as social skills and self-confidence develop at a young age, trans people are also looking for suitable role models or models for typically male or typically female behavior or "suchness" in their social environment.
Beliefs acquired early on, shameful experiences or fearfully held back wishes, such as "You don't laugh like that, as hysterical as a woman!" Or: "You don't cry!"
Or: Wiggle your butt like a woman -
To wish, but not to dare....
may shape their current appearance in their peer group, at work or in the family. My counseling focuses on working with different parts of the personality. Part of the exercise is for these parts to communicate with each other as in a role play. In this way, I can become aware of my personality traits and try to identify with them.
to walk like a woman now.
Taking a closer look, e.g. allowing body impressions that I feel to be expressed in my own words or creatively (e.g. through painting), helps people to come into contact with needs that they might otherwise not have known about or that are too threatening.
As a rule, counseling has the positive effect of increasing self-confidence and giving the client more options for action.
One result of counseling can also be the decision to undergo accompanying psychotherapy in order to continue on the path as a trans person.
signed. Kirsten Müller
Registration under: kirsten.mueller@voce-lingua.de
