Voice Therapy Sydney

Common reasons people come in for voice therapy. Your voice keeps going hoarse or you have lost volume and it has not come back. You work in a job that uses your voice heavily (teaching, health, hospitality, performance, call centre) and you are finishing the day with a sore or tired voice. You have been diagnosed with vocal cord nodules, polyps, or a cyst and the ENT or laryngologist has recommended voice therapy. You are recovering from a surgery that affected the voice. Your voice sounds strained or pressed and other people keep asking if you are sick.

Other common triggers: a lingering cough or throat clearing habit that you cannot shake. A voice that does not match the confident, professional way you want to present at work. Anxiety that tenses up your voice in specific situations. Voice changes after radiotherapy, intubation, or thyroid surgery where the larynx has been affected directly or indirectly.

For any voice problem that has not settled in two to three weeks, or that keeps coming back, a voice assessment is worth doing. I can tell you whether ENT review is needed first, or whether therapy can begin directly.

Face-to-face sessions cover the Inner West, St George, Canterbury-Bankstown, and Eastern Suburbs, based in Arncliffe. Common visit suburbs include Tempe, Rockdale, Hurstville, Bankstown, Marrickville, Bexley, Kogarah, and Burwood. Voice therapy is particularly well suited to telehealth for many adults because most of the work is auditory and does not require hands-on contact. Telehealth is available anywhere in Australia.

For professional voice users and people whose voice issue is affecting work performance, telehealth is often preferred because it fits around a working day. For people with mobility issues or fatigue from a voice-related medical condition, home visits work well.