Hi, I’m Elise Besler! Despite being a voice-worker, I spent most of my life knowing I had something to say, and having no idea how to
set it free…
✢How I Got Here: I was the kid hiding behind my mama's bell-bottoms. The one with so much to say and nowhere safe to say it. Singing was my first home — the one place my voice felt welcome.
Then came the bullying. The people-pleasing. The fawning. Years of learning to make myself smaller so I could fit in somewhere, anywhere.
By the time I got to university voice training, I had two modes: over-performing or completely silent. No in between. I didn't know it then, but that was my nervous system doing exactly what it had learned to do — protect me.
I spent 18 years coaching other singers toward their dreams while quietly holding back from my own. Then, on my 40th birthday, I released an album of original music — and had the most creatively alive year of my life. You're not too old. It's not too late.
✢Why I Do This Work: Growing up in a body that the world didn't accept — and carrying the chronic stress of that — eventually showed up in my health. IBS. Chronic pain. Fatigue. Anxiety that kept me from chasing the things I wanted most.
In 2010, after decades of pushing through, I met my first somatic (nervous system based) practitioner. And for the first time, I understood what it felt like to actually come home to myself.
That experience changed everything. In addition to my years of training as a Somatic Voice Coach, I dove into the study of the nervous system — for myself first, then for my clients — and trained as a Somatic Experiencing™ Practitioner and Neurosomatic Intelligence Practitioner so I could offer others what had so profoundly changed my own life.
This isn't just work I do. It's work I've lived.
✢What You Might Be Feeling: Maybe you've been in that moment — stakes are high, and suddenly your breath disappears. Your throat locks. Your mind goes blank. You walk away wondering what's wrong with you.
Nothing is wrong with you.
Maybe you carry a quiet longing to express yourself fully — through song, through speaking your truth, through simply being all of who you are without editing yourself first.
Maybe you've tried technique, mindset work, you’ve even “graduated from therapy’, but it still feels like you’re just pushing through — and something still feels stuck in your body, somewhere deeper than words can reach.
That's exactly where this work begins.
✢There Is Another Way: Most voice coaching and healing modalities focus on technique, frameworks and pushing past the problem. But when expression has felt unsafe, pushing harder often makes things worse — because the body doesn't respond to force, it responds to safety.
In this work, we approach your voice through the nervous system first. We get curious instead of critical. We go slow. We work with your body's wisdom rather than against it.
When you begin to feel safe enough to be heard, your voice stops being something you manage — and starts being something you live in.
Remember - all roads lead back to the same place. You.
Your voice is your greatest power - and it’s never too late to reclaim it.
Somatic Voice Liberation™ Values
( 01 )Trauma Educated
Not just "trauma informed" — I’m actually trained in supporting people through healing it. Safety, consent, and your nervous system's pace aren't extras here, they're the foundation everything else is built on.
This work moves at the speed your body can integrate. Not the speed the world expects.
( 02 )Authentic Expression
Your voice isn't a performance to be perfected — it's a truth to be lived. Every person who walks into this work deserves to sing, speak, and show up without having to edit themselves first.
That freedom is not a luxury. It's a birthright.
( 03 )Personal Sovereignty
You are always the authority on your own experience. Your pace, your boundaries, what feels right in your body — all of it is honored here.
We don't override or fix. We listen, we respect, and we let your nervous system lead the way home.
Not that we’re counting but…
23 years of voice and nervous system work. A thing or two has been witnessed.
1000’s
of vocal transformations
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1000’s
of voices finding their way home
✢
2000+
moments of “wait, that was MY voice?”
Are we a good fit?
This work has a way of finding exactly the right people. Here's where it tends to land deepest…
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You love to sing — but when the stakes go up, something in you goes offline. Your breath shortens, your throat tightens, your voice does something you didn't ask it to do.
This isn't a technique problem. It's a nervous system response. And when we work with it — rather than pushing past it — your natural voice starts coming through in ways that might actually surprise you.
Artists, writers, musicians, singing - curious folks: if fear or self-doubt keeps showing up right when you most want to express yourself, this is the work. -
Presentations, podcasts, teaching, leading a room — you know what you want to say. But something shifts when the pressure rises. Your voice changes, your thoughts scatter, or you walk away feeling like you left the real version of yourself backstage.
Together we work with your nervous system so your voice shows up the way you actually want it to — steady, clear, and fully yours — when it matters most. -
You have things to say that matter. Real things — the kind that take up space, challenge the room, or require you to be fully visible in ways that can feel vulnerable.
Sometimes the body hesitates even when the mind is ready. This work helps you build the kind of grounded inner authority where speaking your truth stops feeling like a risk and starts feeling like coming home. -
For many of us, being silenced, criticized, or overwhelmed early on left a mark — and that mark often lives in the body, in the throat, in the very place expression wants to move through.
Drawing on the therapeutic healing practice of Somatic Experiencing™, we work gently with the nervous system to restore safety and agency — so your voice can find its way back to you at a pace that feels right. No forcing. No timeline. Just your body, leading the way.
This work pairs beautifully alongside traditional therapy, or as a standalone practice. -
If the words on this page stirred something in you — even if you can't quite name why — that's worth a conversation. Book a free 30-minute chemistry call and let's find out together if this is your next right step.
What becomes possible
In my clients' own words — here's what changes with this work…
Less
Freezing up when it matters most
More
A voice that feels like yours again
Free
To take up space without apology
callchemistryCould be magic.
Could be meh.
Let’s find out which one it is!