Stephen King

I am a therapist working from a body psychotherapist perspective and registered with the Body Psychotherapy Network. I specialise in Psychogenic Voice Problems (Functional Neurological Disorder)

 I have worked with the human voice for my whole adult life. I have studied it, become consumed by it at times, lectured on it, and written about it. Even now, I marvel at its robustness and fragility all at once. Through the years, my fascination with the voice has evolved as a vehicle for artistic and professional expression and as something much deeper—something that, I think speaks to the very fabric of who we are. I have come to understand that when people feel unsafe, they lose their voices, sometimes in the most literal sense. And so, my work with voice led me somewhere unexpected: into the realm of the body, into the work of integration, and actually into therapy.

This work, as I see it now, aligns with the lineage of Body Psychotherapy, first laid down by Reich in the 1930s and later developed through generations of somatic and psychodynamic thinkers. The voice is not just an instrument—it is a somatic event, shaped by nervous system regulation, relational history, and the unconscious. When the voice falters or disappears, we are not simply dealing with a mechanical failure but with a complex interplay of physiological, psychological, and emotional processes. The role of the practitioner, then, is not simply to intervene at the level of muscle tension or vocal efficiency but to hold space for the underlying experience that is manifesting in the voice.