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 & Capacity 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 & exhaustion 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.
Emotional Release Support
Emotional release is a body-based healing process that lets suppressed feelings be accessed and expressed safely.
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Something happens and the feeling doesn't finish. It sits in your chest, your throat, your gut — hours or days later, still looking for a way out.
Maybe you cry somewhere unexpected and don't know why.
Maybe you go numb instead, and that scares you more.
You've felt something build and had nowhere to put it.
Emotional Release helps you feel, without leaving you raw.
This work is done 1:1 with Elise either online or in person at her Halifax NS studio. -
Feeling isn't the same as processing.
A lot of us learn to survive big emotional states without ever learning how to let them move through and out. So the charge stays in the body — in the jaw, the diaphragm, the shoulders — long after the moment that created it.
Emotional release works with that directly. Not by talking about what happened, but by giving the body room to finish what it started: sensation, breath, sound, movement.
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Sessions are body-first. Meaning, we track emotion and sensation as it moves — tightness, heat, trembling, breath catching — and follow it rather than retelling trauma or stress narratives.
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Most people describe more spaciousness in their body, their mind and their soul.
Less bracing.
A breath that goes all the way down instead of catching at the top of the chest.
Speaking their truth with clarity and no apology.
The goal isn't catharsis for its own sake - it's a nervous system and mind that aren’t spending energy holding something back anymore, so more of you is available for your life and work.
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™ Therapeutics, Emotional Release & Capacity work, we go to the root — so your voice and authentic truth 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.
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Elise’s Music
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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?