Your voice
matters.
~ and it deserves more than
just tips, tricks, & positive affirmations.
Self expression feels easier when your body feels safe to allow it.
Here’s the thing: Your voice doesn’t need permission, but your body may disagree. Let’s work with that!
1:1 Somatic Voice Liberation™ Coaching
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Fully personalized private coaching with a trauma-educated Somatic Voice Coach with 23 years of experience.
Our work includes but is not limited toSomatic voice exploration
1:1 nervous-system-informed voice coaching
Support for performance anxiety, fear of self expression and voice blocks
Personalized practices between sessions
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Singers experiencing vocal shutdown or anxiety
Singers who wish to liberate their stuck voice
Speakers/podcasters/leaders who freeze when the stakes are high
Creatives who feel blocked in expression
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Single sessions
Coaching packages
Ongoing support
*click the button below to book a chemistry call to see if this work is a good fit!
For singers, speakers and creatives ready to stop holding back and start showing up fully in their voice.
Performance Anxiety Support
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You know the feeling. You're about to step on stage, into the studio, or up to the mic — and suddenly your body has other ideas.
Your heart races. Your mouth goes dry. Your mind goes blank. You freeze, shrink, or push through with a smile while everything inside screams.
Maybe you've started avoiding the very things you love most — auditions, performances, speaking opportunities — because the anxiety just doesn't feel worth it anymore.
Or maybe you show up anyway, but you leave feeling like you left the best version of yourself backstage.
This isn't weakness. This isn't a mindset problem. This is your nervous system doing exactly what it was designed to do — protect you. And it's workable.
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Performance Anxiety Support comes in packages of 4 sessions designed to help you understand, work with, and ultimately change your relationship with performance anxiety — so you can stay in the driver's seat when it matters most.
Together we'll work with:
The nervous system patterns driving your anxiety response
Somatic (body based) tools tailored to YOUR unique nervous system
Practical strategies for before, during and after performance
The freeze, fawn, fight and flight responses that show up on stage
Building a pre-performance ritual that actually regulates — not just distracts
This isn't about eliminating anxiety. It's about learning to work with your nervous system so it stops working against you.
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Imagine walking onto that stage, into that studio, up to that mic — and feeling your feet on the ground.
Not fearless. Not perfect. Just present.
Staying in your body when the stakes are high
Performing with presence instead of pushing through panic
Trusting yourself to handle whatever comes up
Feeling the nerves — and performing confidently anyway
Leaving the stage feeling like the authentic YOU showed up — not just a version of you
Performance Anxiety Support starts at 4 sessions. Click the button to book your chemistry call.
For performers, singers, actors and speakers who are tired of letting anxiety run the show.
Somatic Experiencing™ Therapeutics for Voice Trauma
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This work draws from Somatic Experiencing™, the trauma resolution approach developed by Dr. Peter Levine.
In sessions we gently explore the trauma patterns that may contribute to:
vocal shutdown or loss of voice under pressure
freezing when speaking or singing
fear of being seen or heard
difficulty expressing truth or emotion
lingering effects of past experiences of silencing or system overwhelm
Sessions move slowly and respectfully, allowing your body to guide the process of healing and integration.
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Somatic Experiencing™ Therapy may be helpful for people who:
are on a trauma healing journey and looking for a compliment to traditional talk therapy - a way to complete the loop.
feel a deep longing to express themselves but feel blocked
are healing from experiences where their voice was suppressed or unsafe
want trauma-informed support for expression and voice
It can complement therapy, voice work, or personal healing journeys.
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Sessions are 60 minutes and available both online and in-person.
Investment: $250 CAD per session
Email Elise directly at hello@elisebesler.com to discuss booking.
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Somatic Experiencing™ works with the body rather than just the mind. Instead of talking through what happened, we work with how it's still living in your body — the held breath, the tight throat, the frozen response. This is where lasting change happens.
SE™ is therapeutic, yes, and it can pair beautifully with traditional talk therapy, or on its own.
Body-based trauma resolution that help re-pattern the nervous system responses that cause vocal shutdown.
Performance Capacity Support
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You love performing. You know that. And yet...
The crash after a show can feel disproportionate to what just happened. One minute you're on stage, lit up, fully alive — and the next you're flat, empty, irritable, or tearful. Sometimes for days.
You might find yourself:
Struggling to come down after the adrenaline high
Feeling disconnected from the people closest to you after a performance
Needing days to recover — emotionally more than physically
Experiencing a low that feels like depression but arrives right after your highest moments
Feeling guilty for feeling bad when you 'should' be grateful
Performing brilliantly one night and feeling completely depleted the next
Nobody talks about this part. But it's real. It's biological. And you don't have to just push through it.
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Your body just held something enormous.
When you perform, your nervous system goes into full activation — cortisol, adrenaline, dopamine all spike to help you do what you do. And when it's over? Those levels drop. Sometimes dramatically.
The emotional crash isn't a character flaw. It's a neurological event. Your body is trying to find its way back to baseline after an enormous output of energy — physical, emotional, and relational.
Add to that the invisible labour of holding space for an audience, regulating an entire room, and giving everything you have — and it makes complete sense that your nervous system needs support to find its way home.
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Performance Capacity Support starts with a package of 4 sessions designed to help you build the capacity to ride the wave of performing — without being swallowed by it.
Together we'll work with:
Understanding your unique performer nervous system rhythm
Somatic (body based) nervous system tools for regulating after high-activation performances
Building a sustainable post-performance recovery practice
Processing the emotional arc of performing — the high, the crash, and everything in between
Creating more consistency and stability between performances
This isn't about performing less. It's about building a nervous system that can hold the full experience of being a performer — and recover with more ease.
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Imagine finishing a show and being able to actually be present with the people you love.
Recovering faster. Feeling more emotionally stable. Enjoying the high without dreading the crash.
Understanding your own performer rhythm — and working with it
Feeling more consistent between performances
Processing the emotional weight of performing without it spilling into the rest of your life
Riding the wave — without being swallowed by it
Sustaining a long, rich, fulfilling performance career
Performance Capacity Support starts at 4 sessions. Click the button to book your chemistry call.
For performers who love what they do — and need support holding the full weight of it.
KIND WORDSKIND WORDS
“the shifts I’ve made in a short time have been profound!”“I was looking for support with boundaries, speaking up and feeling grounded in my body during difficult situations.
During our work together, Elise was compassionate and intentional as she guided me through new ways to process my emotions and nervous system responses.
On the other side of our work, I'm so much more capable of holding myself through triggering moments. The shifts I've made in a short time, have been profound!"
Cassidy Dickens ✷ Singer/Songwriter, Copywriter and Creative Strategist
Not sure where to start?Perfect. You’re in the exact right spot — let’s figure it out together.
Way In…
Find Your
With This Voice - The Podcast
Grounded conversations on voice, healing, and staying with yourself — especially when the world makes that hard. Each episode is a reminder that your voice was never the problem.
Liberation Rituals
The Voice Liberation Rituals™ are six voice practices designed to help you stop guarding your truth and holding back your self expression — like yoga or meditation, but for your voice.
1:1 Somatic Support & Coaching
Reclaim the missing parts of you. Through Somatic Voice Liberation™ Coaching, Somatic Experiencing™ Therapy, Performance Anxiety/Performance Capacity work, we go to the root — so your voice can finally come all the way through.
Heal Out Loud Workshop
You don’t have to re-live your story to release it. You don’t have to stare down your trauma to heal it. Let your voice and nervous system guide the way.
Heal Out Loud is a live, virtual workshop on September 19th - for creatives and expressive souls ready to reconnect with their voice so you can express yourself more freely in your art and life - no trauma-digging required.
Elise’s Music
Soulful vocals, honest lyrics, laid-back grooves. Intimate enough to feel like a secret. Expansive enough to fill a room.
Not ready to invest yet?
Start with these free resources.
Unfreeze Your Voice - Toolkit
This toolkit helps you interrupt what's actually happening when the voice shuts down due to the freeze response — and what's possible when the nervous system finally feels safe enough to let it out.
Voice Medicine
Learn how to manage your stress and anxiety in a matter of minutes using the power your voice.
Ready to find out if this is for you?