FOR SINGERS, CREATIVES, & EXPRESSIVE SOULS - 8 WEEK LIVE ONLINE PROGRAM
UNSILENCED
Reclaiming your voice after trauma or chronic stress.
DOORS OPEN 09/21/2026 CLASS STARTS 08/10/2026
You didn’t lose your voice. Your body learned to protect it.
This is where you learn that it's safe to come back.
Somewhere along the way, you experienced trauma or chronic stress …
Maybe you know exactly what it was. Maybe it's harder to name than that.
Either way, your body and brain did what they were supposed to do —they organized around it, 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.
The tightening, the freezing up, the sound that disappears right when you need it most, the shame spiral after you DO use your voice... your body wisely did that - its job - it just doesn't know the danger has now passed.
The body that learned to protect you can also learn to let go - that’s exactly what Unsilenced is here for.
BEFORE UNSILENCED …
You’ve been carrying your voice through a lived experience that taught you to shrink…
You open your mouth to sing or speak and something tightens —
it feels marginally easier when you're alone, or “safe”.You've done the vocal lessons, the workshops, the breathing exercises — maybe you’ve even graduated from therapy, but the voice block is still there.
Your voice works fine... until it suddenly doesn't. And you don't know why.
You're tired of being told to "just relax" or "think positively" — because it feels like your body is doing something your mind can't override.
You feel frustration - knowing something is holding your voice back
— but not knowing what, or how to reach it.
There's another way through. And it begins with creating felt safety within yourself
AFTER UNSILENCED…
You find the felt safety to express yourself freely - here's what changes
You understand why your voice does what it does under pressure — and you finally have tools that actually help.
The tightening around your throat loosens — because your body learned it's finally safe to let go and express yourself freely.
You can trust your voice again and again, even after a hard day, a hard season, even after your hard history.
You have tools that hold you — not just techniques to memorize and then forget when the stakes are high.
Your voice stops feeling like a problem to solve and finally starts feeling like an extension of your authentic self.
This is the work. And , it works.
What singers & creatives typically experience in this work…
We can't measure voice liberation. But here's what people tell us.
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
Welcome! I’m Elise Besler — Somatic Voice Coach, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP®), Neurosomatic Performance Anxiety Practitioner, and vocalist with 23 years of experience working at the intersection of voice, nervous system, and healing.
I created Unsilenced because I know what it is to carry a silenced voice — and I know the difference between working on your voice and working with your whole system.
This program isn't about skill building or vocal technique. It's about getting to the root of what shut your voice down in the first place — and creating the conditions for it to come back.
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 technique 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 voice workl
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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
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 & 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.
Our weekly voice healing themes…
Unguarding We start where all healing starts — with safety. Learning to orient, settle, and feel at home in your own body before we touch anything else.Week two:
Unlocking Building your personal resource toolkit. Finding what feels alive, safe, and nourishing — the counterweight you'll return to again and again.
Unsilencing Mapping your voice story. Understanding how and when your voice learned to go quiet — and beginning to listen to what it's been trying to say.
Unshaming The performances that went wrong. The rooms 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? We work with the lineage — the voices that were shut down before yours ever had a chance.
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.