Over the last decade, thousands of people have trusted Stephen with their voice problems.
”“You really helped me when I was stuck and because of your knowledge of the theatre industry, I really knew that you understood what I was going through. I didn’t have to explain it all to you, you knew and could help. Thank you.”
anonymised client
Meet Stephen
Over the last decade, thousands of people have trusted Stephen with their voice problems. He is qualified and trained in five different disciplines: Musical Theatre (ArtsEd), Voice Pedagogy, Body Psychotherapy, Manual Therapy and Medical Acupuncture, with his research published in peer-reviewed journals. He co-wrote the best-selling books, “Help! I’ve Got A Voice Problem” (now in 4 languages), “The Handbook of Vocal Massage, A Relational Approach” and “Relational Acupuncture For Voice” as well as book chapters in other texts related to voice pedagogy and voice health.
In his role as the director of the award-winning VOICE CARE CENTRE, he has learned from and led a multidisciplinary team of many practitioners over the years, including ENT surgeons and registered healthcare professionals in both the medical and non-medical components of voice disorders. It is within this framework he pioneered the creation of the ‘voice care’ model, helping to establish para-medical, holistic voice clinics across the UK and Europe through training practitioners in Vocal Massage.
A passionate lecturer and presenter, Stephen has delivered training across the UK, Europe, China and Japan and keynoted or spoken at many academic conferences in the field of performing arts medicine and voice science. He formally transferred his passion for communicating this work by co-founding Vocal Health Education. This not-for-profit organisation in the UK has trained almost 4,000 practitioners to think biopsychosocially about the diagnosis and treatment of voice problems.
Accredited with the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy and a member of the Body Psychotherapy Network, Stephen now works on complex cases of voicelessness and voice problems online and in-person from where he lives in North Devon, UK.
Credits & Publications
See below for Stephen’s conference credits and publications as an author and reseracher
Conference credits
“Body Psychotherapy and Functional Neurological Disorder” The 5th Annual “Power of Voice” (Canada, 2025)
“Defining the Role Related Dysphonia Trigger” Vocal Health Education Conference (London, 2025)
“Biopyschosocial Manual Therapy for Voice – addressing how we structure our thinking around vocal issues and how vocal dysfunction has characteristically been defined” Australian Voice
Association (Melbourne, 2024)
“Vocal Massage, An Important Addition To Your Voice Studio” Pan European Voice Conference (PEVoC) 15th edition, Workshop (Santander 2024)
“Relational Acupuncture for Voice Professionals: Fusing Ancient Tradition with Modern Science” Pan European Voice Conference (PEVoC) 15th edition, Workshop (Santander 2024)
“First, Do No Harm: A Workshop Exploring the Significance of Nocebic Language in a Rehabilitative Process” Pan European Voice Conference (PEVoC) 15th edition, Workshop (Santander 2024)
“Integrating Psychosocial Interventions in Muscle Tension Dysphonia Management:A
Multidisciplinary Approach” Pan European Voice Conference (PEVoC) 15th edition, Presentation (Santander 2024)
“Uniting Body and Soul: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Treating Muscle Tension Dysphonia and Anxiety“ Pan European Voice Conference (PEVoC) 15th edition, Presentation (Santander 2024)
“Grieving A Previous Voice, A Psychotherapy Case Study of a Performer with a Functional Voice Disorder” Pan European Voice Conference (PEVoC) 15th edition, Presentation (Santander 2024)
“Grieving a Previous Voice, a case study of a singer with Functional Voice Disorder” European Speech Language Association’s 12th International Congress, Presentation (Bruges 2024)
“The Inclusion of Acupuncture in Speech Therapy Practice” European Speech Language Association’s 12th International Congress, Presentation (Bruges 2024)
“Relational Acupuncture for Voice Professionals: Fusing Ancient Tradition with Modern Science” European Speech Language Association’s 12th International Congress, Workshop (Bruges 2024)
“Relational Acupuncture for Voice Professionals: Fusing Ancient Tradition with Modern Science” The Performing Arts Medicine Association, Oral Poster (University College London 2024)
“Developing a Vocal Manual Therapy Intervention for the Treatment of Laryngopharyngeal Reflux in
Professional Voice Users- A Pilot Study of Two Elite Singers” The Performing Arts Medicine Association, Oral Poster (University College London 2024)
KEYNOTE: “Including vocal massage into your routines and rituals” The Malta Voice Symposium (Malta, 2023)
“The paradox of the voiceless needing to be heard” LABRC, Centre for Jungian Analysts, (London 2023)
“Working Together to Find a Voice: Recommendations for Voice Healthcare Based on Expert-By-Experience and Practitioner Consensus” VASTA (Mexico, 2023)
“What is a biopsychosocial conference?” Becoming Biopsychosocial: The Vocal Health Conference (London, 2022)
“Laryngeal Disorganisation, a new diagnostic philosophy” The World Voice Teacher’s Expo (4th Edition, 2022)
“Tipping the triangle, evidence based practice to practice based evidence” The Vocal Health Conference (Inaugural, 2021)
“Is Singer’s Acid Reflux (LPR) really what we think it is?” The World Voice teacher’s Expo (3rd Edition, 2020)
“The Neurophysiological Implications of Manual Therapy” (ViP Online Conference, 2020)
“How to Stretch the Vocal Mechanism, an overview of Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation, Active Isolated and Static Stretching” (Voice Geek Online, 2020)
“A Critical Overview of Myofascial Release for the Voice”, (The Voice Geek Conference 2nd edition, 2019)
“Is Singer’s Acid Reflux (LPR) really what we think it is?” (Towards Best Practice: Teaching Singing in Higher Education, London College of Music Poster Presentation, 2018)
“Practical Myofascial Release for the Singer” (The World Voice teacher’s Expo (2nd Edition 2018)
“The Positive Affects of Vocal Massage” (Voice Geek Conference, 2017)
“For Better Communication, giving weight to a story” (University College London Hospitals, 2015)
Publications
King S. R (2025) Exploring Role-Related Dysphonia as a Trigger in Functional Neurological Voice Disorder: A Single Case Study in Body Psychotherapy, Journal of Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy
King S. R (2025) Body psychotherapy for psychosomatic reflux:Insights from a performing arts medicine case report, Journal of Clinical and Basic Psychosomatics
“The Handbook of Vocal Massage, a relational approach” Stephen R. King and Robert Price (2025) New Voice Publishing
“Teaching Singing to Children and Young People” III Edition by Dr Jenevora Williams (2024) Full Voice Publishing (book chapter)
King, S. R (2024) Integrating Psychotherapy In The Treatment Of Functional Voice Disorders: Addressing The Role Of Morbid Gain, Voice Speech Review
King, S. R (2024) Grieving a Previous Voice, The Psychological Implications of a Singer with a Functional Voice Disorder, Voice Speech Review
Flock, L and King, S. R(2023) A Manual Therapy in Need of a Manual: conceptualising and comparing existing Vocal Massage protocols and their use in the treatment of voice problems, Voice Speech Review
Flock, L and King, S. R (2023) Developing a Vocal Manual Therapy Intervention for the Treatment of Laryngopharyngeal Reflux in Professional Voice Users: A Pilot Study of Two Elite Singers. Journal of Singing. March 2023 edition
Flock, L. King, S. R. Williams, J. Finlay, E. Smikle, H. Benito, M. Benton-Stace, F. Brown, J. Mann-Daraz,A. J. Hart, L. Mclean, K. Prucnal, Z. Barry, L. Lynes, R. Toy, M. Valentine, K. Slattery, S. Aldridge-Waddon, L. (2023) Working Together to Find a Voice: Recommendations for Voice Healthcare Based on Expert-By-Experience and Practitioner Consensus, Journal of Voice
“Relational Acupuncture for Voice Professionals”, By Caroline Van Looy and Stephen R. King (2023). New Voice Publishing.
“Help! I’ve Got a Voice Problem” by Stephen R. King and Lydia Hart. (2022) New Voice Publishing
Flock, L and King, S (2022) Vocal Manual Therapy: the consent EQUATION (And Why You Should Care About It) Voice Speech Review
