Voicewize Voice & Speech Training

Barbara is a voice-specialized speech-language pathologist, singing voice teacher and past President of the Boston Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Barbara graduated from the MGH Institute of Health Professions at Massachusetts General Hospital completing her specialty rotation in voice disorders at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, where she also worked as the Clinical Coordinator of the Voice & Speech Laboratory from 2013 to 2019. Currently, Barbara sees patients at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Picture Photo by Teja Arboleda In addition to her clinical work, Barbara is a singer and actor. She studied voice at the New England Conservatory, through consortium with Simmons College and completed an acting program with Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, Massachusetts. Barbara's methods are informed by a variety of influences including, the science of attention and motor skill acquisition, exercise physiology, the work of Robert Edwin, Somatic Voicework: the LoVetri Method, the work of Melissa Cross, the work of Mary Klimek, and Estill Voice Training. She is committed to the development of an integrated voice pedagogy that honors both the art and the science of teaching and she has a special interest in the impact of stress and anxiety on the voice.