London-based voice coach
Every voice can be improved! I can help you reach your true vocal potential.
With over twenty years’ experience as a voice and speech coach and theatre director, I will support you with the technical knowledge and muscular training to develop the voice you want.
I know how it feels to have your speech let you down – and what it takes to stop it holding you back. Early in my career I had my own struggles with voice, as a working actor battling a stammer. Over the course of a decade my vocal skills became my best asset. I later gained the highest international qualification in voice training and went on to find my vocation as a voice coach.
Since then, I have worked with thousands of performers, academics, researchers, poets as well as people overcoming injury and illness. I work one-on-one and I also teach voice, speech and communication at City Lit, the UK’s foremost adult education college. I am the Voice Consultant for Channel 4 News and work with broadcasters from BBC and Sky.
How can a voice coach help me?
There are as many different reasons to work on your voice as there are voices. You may want to be more engaging, better heard, or judged differently, to build confidence, change your accent, or overcome an impediment. You can. And along the way you can develop the love of words and language that’s the currency of the best public speakers.
Where can I have vocal coaching?
I am based in East London, but can conduct sessions on Zoom if face-to-face is not convenient or practical, or is your preferred option.
Read more about how I could help you find your voice.
“One word to describe Vernon – excellent! He’s a master at what he does.”
Vanessa Baffoe, Sky News
Voice and Psychotherapy Workshop
Date: September 14th 2025
This one day in-person workshop will support counsellors and psychotherapists with the technical knowledge and muscular training to develop the voice you want and encourage clients to best express themselves and their feelings and thoughts through optimal vocal expression.
What is covered on the course Voice and Psychotherapy?
Core concepts include:
- Empathic transactions and the different types of empathic transactions that can be conveyed through our voice
- Different types of breathwork to centre and ground clients in high emotion
- Bodywork exercises
- Somatic experience of the body and voice
- Communicating without ‘charge’ in relationships and couples therapy
- Psychoeducation for clients around using their voice for potency and gravitas
- Decontamination and deconfusion work when using voice
Topics covered include:
- Assessing clients through their voice, including intonation, timbre, pitch and pace.
- Communicating and conveying feelings optimally
- Clarity to heighten understanding of content in a psychotherapy session
- Use of pausing, pace and delivery to increase power of transactions in psychotherapy
- Working with couples and relationships to communicate better through careful use of voice
- Addressing individual concerns of psychotherapists to see how they can use their voice better
- Supporting clients with weakened voice as a result of illness, physical issues and psychological vulnerability
Date: September 14th 2025
Cost: £150 for the day
Venue: 42 Driffield Road E3 5NF (or a larger East London venue if numbers require).
The Voice and Psychotherapy one-day course is held in partnership with Jonathan Lake.
Contact Vernon to book or for more information.