FINALLY - A HEALING SPACE FOR CREATIVES & EXPRESSIVE SOULS
UNSILENCED
Reclaim your voice after
trauma or chronic stress.
8 weeks of class, Live Online via Zoom
DOORS OPEN SEPTEMBER 21st, 2026 CLASS STARTS OCTOBER 8th, 2026
You didn’t lose your voice. Your body learned to protect it.
This is where you learn that it's safe to use it again.
Somewhere along the way, you experienced trauma or chronic stress …
Your body and brain did what they were supposed to do — found a way to carry you through.
And your voice, exposed and intimate and impossible to hide behind, became part of how that protection took shape. And now, when it’s time to express yourself…
→Your throat tightens up - making it impossible to sing or speak
→ Your body freezes up - and it feels legitimately dangerous to share
→ Your anxiety is off the charts - is THIS “stage fright”?
→ OR, when you do use your voice, you go into a shame spiral afterwards
And even if you understand why all of this happens on a cognitive level, your body doesn't know the danger has now passed.
The good news? The body that learned to protect you can also learn to let go - that’s exactly what UNSILENCED
is here for.
You're not new to the work of reclaiming your voice.You've taken the voice coaching. Done the spiritual work and the breath workshops and masterclasses. Maybe you’ve even sat through (or graduated) the therapy.
So it's fair to ask: why would this be any different?
Why UNSILENCED works when
everything else didn’t…
Here’s the honest answer
Vocal training works on the output — your breath, your skill, the sound coming out. It's real, and important, but it can't reach what happens before the sound on the operating level of your instrument of truth.
Therapy works on the story — what happened, what it meant, how you make sense of it now. Also real. Also necessary. But understanding why your voice shut down doesn't always tell your body it's safe to release it.
Spiritual Work touches the soul of it — the meaning, the calling, the sense that your voice is connected to something larger than you. And for many creatives connecting to their authentic truth, that dimension is real and necessary. But the body still needs a language it understands. Presence and prayer can open the door. They don't always know how to walk you through it.
What none of these other modalities address is the part actually running the show: your body's protective response in the live moment of self expression.
The clamp that fires down on your throat the second you're exposed - faster than thought - and far below the reach of spirit, mindset, skill, or willpower.
This is not a skill issue. It's not even a mindset issue. It's a felt safety issue - one that UNSILENCED is built to help you resolve.
Not by pushing past the fear. By teaching your body - slowly, and for real - that the
danger has passed so you can express yourself freely and fully.
What singers & creatives typically experience in this work…
Real, measurable results for your voice liberation!
90%
More ease and confidence in their voice and body within the first practice
100%
Say they feel less alone on their voice healing journey
10x
Say they feel more like themselvesvwhen singing, speaking, or simply being heard
Notes from inside the work of UNSILENCED
Here’s what clients have said about the work!
Your voice was shaped by what happened to you - but you get to have the last word.
Meet Your Guide… Elise
I know what it means to lose access to your voice. Not metaphorically — I mean the two times in my life I stopped singing, speaking up, creating, and not being able to access the part of me that felt most alive. I know what it is to do all the "right" things and still feel locked out of your own expression.
That's why I created UNSILENCED— not from a textbook, but from the lived experience I carry in my own body.
I'm Elise Besler, Somatic Experiencing™️ Practitioner, Somatic Voice Coach, and Neurosomatic Performance Anxiety Practitioner with 23 years of experience working at the intersection of voice, nervous system, and trauma healing. I help singers, creatives and expressive souls heal their relationship with their voice so they can be seen and heard without shrinking, freezing, or going blank.
If you’re curious about any of that, I invite you to join me for UNSILENCED.
Is UNSILENCED right for you?
Unsilenced is for you IF:
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You're a singer or creative whose voice has been silenced by trauma, chronic stress, anxiety, or a painful experience — and you're ready to resolve it, so you can sing and speak without shrinking back
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You've tried vocal coaching or therapy but something still locks up when you express yourself, or you have performance anxiety that holds you back
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You’re curious about body-based, nervous-system-informed healing — not just more tips and tricks
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You're looking for a non-performative safe container where nobody competes or critiques, yet still grow - together
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You want practices you can come back to — not just a one-time tip or trick
Unsilenced is not for you IF:
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You're looking for a traditional vocal skill program that focuses on fixing what's wrong. (P.S. there's nothing wrong - like, at all!)
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You want a performance-based critique space
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You only want to work on mindset and cognitive aspects of your voice challenges
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You're not ready to explore slowing down and listening to the wisdom of your own body
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You're looking for a one-time quick fix rather than an ongoing practice
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You want “guaranteed results” without going through the process
What’s inside UNSILENCED?
8 weekly 90min video calls (via Zoom)
Guided somatic voice practices with Elise - to help you free your voice.
Nervous system tools for healing chronic stress and trauma.
Vocal exploration in a safe, non-performative space
Live Q&A and spot coaching— bring your questions, your blocks, your voice - deep support from Elise.
Option for 1:1 sessions with Elise at a discounted price.
The Community & Practice Library
A supportive community space between sessions (via What’sApp chat)
Video practice library — lifetime access of the tools to return to anytime
Audio options to practice on the go
Like-minded folks healing their relationship with their voice — together
The Investment
$695 CAD — Early bird (ends September 25th, 2026) $895 CAD — full price.
Equal payment plans available.
UNSILENCED - what the program includes…
Unguarding We start where all healing starts — with felt safety. Learning to orient, settle, and feel at home in your own body before we touch anything else.
UnlockingBuilding your personal resource toolkit to help you navigate the 4 F’s of using your voice (Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn). Finding what feels alive, safe, and nourishing — the counterweight of your stress and trauma that you'll return to again and again.
Unsilencing Mapping your voice story. Understanding how and when your voice learned to go quiet — and resourcing yourself for what to do when it happens in the future.
Unshaming The performances that went wrong. The culture that told you to be smaller. The relationships that required your silence for safety. We move through the shame layer — gently, together.
Unsmalling Returning to the part of you that sang and spoke up before anyone told you not to. Reclaiming the voice that existed before the wounding.
Uninheriting Whose silence are you carrying? Research in epigenetics and intergenerational trauma tells us that what our ancestors experienced lives in our bodies too. This week we work with healing the lineage - the voices that came before and were shut down before you.
Unleashing Full expression. Sound, breath, vibration, presence. This is what all the previous weeks have been building toward.
Unbounding Your voice doesn't live only in this container. We close the program by building a practice that goes with you — into your life, your art, your relationships.
Common Questions: Answered
Because the right information can be the thing that finally makes it feel safe to say yes.
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Yes — and this matters deeply to me. I'm a certified Somatic Experiencing™ Practitioner (SEP®), trained in the method developed by Dr. Peter Levine specifically for healing trauma and chronic stress held in the body.
SE training is a three-year post-graduate certification — it's not a weekend course.
I'm also an ICF accredited Neurosomatic Intelligence Brain-Based Performance Anxiety Coach, a twice certified Somatic Voicework Practitioner, and I have 23 years of experience working with voices and nervous systems. Unsilenced is built on this foundation. You are in safe, qualified hands. -
Most healing work approaches the mind — the story, the belief, the pattern. Somatic therapeutics work at the level of the nervous system, where trauma and stress is actually held in the body.
This isn't talk therapy, and it isn't another vocal technique. It's body-based, relational, and cumulative — meaning each session builds on the last. What you're building here is a practice for life-long lasting change, not a one-time intervention. -
Every session is recorded and yours to download and keep. Life happens — the work is still available to you. That said, the live calls are where the real magic of the group container happens, and I encourage you to show up whenever you can.
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Trauma and chronic stress isn't defined by the size of what happened — it's defined by how your nervous system responded to it.
If your voice tightens, disappears, or shuts down in ways you can't explain or control, that's your body telling you something. You don't need a diagnosis or a dramatic story to belong here. You just need a voice that's been holding something — and a readiness to let it begin to release. -
Live calls take place every [DAY] at [TIME] [TIMEZONE], beginning [START DATE]. All sessions run 90 minutes and are recorded and downloadable, so if you can't make it live you won't miss a thing.
Testimonials
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Tamara Freeman ✹ Singer & Sound Healer
"Even with a bachelor's degree in voice performance, one session with Elise opened me up to my soul voice like nothing else."
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Michele Thomas ✹ Singer/Musician/Educator/Entrepreneur
“Elise encouraged me to listen to myself ~ REALLY LISTEN TO MYSELF for the first time in my life. She helped me open up another door to my life’s journey that allowed me to lean into my purpose with new fervour!”
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Jessie Brown ✹ Singer/Songwriter & Voice Coach
"Working with Elise was an awakening of spirit. She helped me get the voice back I thought I had lost"
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Dr. Stephanie Barlett - Peters ✹ Reconciliation Educator
"Before working with Elise, something in my body or subconscious was holding me back - literally. My throat would often feel like it was closing in or blocked when I was talking. Anyone on the fence about doing this work, DO IT, you won't regret it!"
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Wendy Jeans ✹ Singer/Songwriter
“Working with Elise was about more than just singing. It helped me get my life back! Elise has been there all along the way, helping me get back into my body, move through my emotions and come home to my truth.”
Your voice has been waiting to be UNSILENCED.
You've done enough surviving. Now, it’s time to heal.