I want to help you stop feeling awkward about your voice.
Hi, I'm Annabelle. I'm a longtime clown teacher, linguistics graduate, and trans voice coach. My approach combines technical voice work with performance pedagogy to help people stop fighting their own voices.
Most voice coaching teaches you what to do. I'm equally interested in what gets in the way of doing it. Your nervous system has to trust a new voice before it'll hold up in a real conversation, and building that trust is most of the actual work.
Where I'm at right now
I'm currently looking for a small group of test students (my first ten or so) as I continue refining this curriculum. I'm a coach, not a speech-language pathologist, and if I think you'd benefit from clinical care, I'll tell you. What I am is a trans woman with years of personal voice work and a longtime clown teacher whose original curriculum has resonated with queer and neurodivergent students. I've developed an approach I'm genuinely proud of.
Test sessions are free. The work needs to be tested before I start charging anyone for it. Once the test phase wraps, sessions will be $70, sliding down to $40 for anyone who needs it, and test students will get first crack at ongoing spots at a discounted rate.
What you getFree 45 to 60 minute sessions, online or in-person in Portland. Voice coaching that mixes technical voice work with exercises adapted from my clown teaching. Those exercises don't exist anywhere else; I built them.
What I'm asking from youShow up, try the exercises, and tell me honestly what worked and what didn't. I'd rather you be honest with me than be nice. Honest feedback is what makes this useful.
You're probably a good fit if…
- You're an adult (my practice is 18+)
- You have trans feminine, trans masculine, or nonbinary voice goals
- You want an approach that's neurodivergent-friendly and flexible about how you learn
- You've tried voice work before and stalled out
- You didn't click with clinical or imitation-based approaches
- You're a performer (clown, singer, voice-over) and want voice work that holds up on stage
What we'd actually do
Most sessions are a mix of technical voice work and exercises adapted from my clown teaching. On the technical side, we use my Somatic Soundboard framework to shape the voice across four physical dials: Chamber (vocal tract size/resonance), Buzz (vocal weight), Melody (inflection), and Sculpt (articulation). On the clown side: structured play, noticing the defense mechanisms your voice uses to protect you, and character voice work. Yes, including SpongeBob voices.
What I'm most excited to do with you is help you find the part of voice work that comes before the technical content, where you learn to play with your voice without feeling stupid. That's what I've spent years learning to teach in clown class.
You can find technical voice exercises all over the internet for free. Permission to play is harder to come by.
Privacy, safety, and my limits
A few commitments, because voice work is personal:
- Your recordings stay yours. When I ask you to record an exercise, you record it on your own phone and keep it. I never need copies, and none of your audio ends up on my devices or anyone else's.
- Sessions can be camera-off. Online sessions work fine with video off if that's more comfortable. Voice work happens in the ears anyway.
- Your email goes to me and nobody else. No list, no CRM, no newsletter. Just me reading it.
- I'll tell you if you need someone with different training. I'm a coach, not a clinician. If I hear something in your voice that an SLP or doctor should look at (pain, persistent hoarseness, anything medical), I'll say so and help you find one before we continue.
The voice we're looking for is already yours. My job is helping you get to it.
Get in touch
A note on age: my practice is set up for adults, so I can only take students who are 18 and up. If you're younger and already working on your voice, that's genuinely great. The right support for you is a speech-language pathologist who works with young people (in Portland, OHSU is a good place to start), and I'm happy to share resources if you email me.
Want to be a test student? Email me at [email protected]. A brief intro is enough: what you'd want from voice work, anything I should know going in. We'll set up a free intro session and go from there.
Not sure yet? Totally fine. Ask me anything. I'm happy to chat about whether this makes sense for you before you commit to anything.
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