Hi, I’m Gary.

I am a Liverpool-based voice coach, vocal massage practitioner and somatic therapist. For over 15 years, I have worked across theatre, screen and training, including with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare’s Globe, the National Theatre, the Royal Court, BBC and Sony Pictures Entertainment. From 2020 to 2025, I was Programme Leader for the MA Acting at The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA), where I now work as Skills Coordinator for the School of Performance. I have also taught voice, text and accents at many of the UK’s leading drama schools.

I grew up just outside Glasgow in a working-class town, the child of Irish parents. From an early age, I was fascinated by people — how they communicated, what they revealed, and what they kept hidden.

Much of that fascination was personal. As a queer kid in a place that did not always feel safe, I became highly attuned to voice, body language and atmosphere. I learned how to read a room, adapt, protect myself and, at times, conceal parts of who I was. It took many years to feel fully at ease in my own voice.

That early sensitivity became the foundation of my work.

I trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, completing an MA in Voice, and later became a Designated Teacher of the Linklater voice method — a psychophysical approach that works through the body, breath and imagination to free the natural voice.

Alongside performance coaching, I support clients experiencing vocal tension, fatigue, performance anxiety, vocal recovery needs, and challenges around confidence and self-expression. I also work with clients exploring gender-affirming voice practice, and those seeking a more grounded and sustainable relationship with their voice.

My approach combines established voice pedagogy with a contemporary understanding of vocal function, breath, nervous system regulation, and the physiology of voice production. I am also trained in vocal massage, working hands-on with the jaw, tongue, neck, shoulders and breath musculature to help release patterns of tension that can impact vocal ease.

Over time, I began to notice something important in my work. As physical tension released, deeper shifts often followed. When breath softened, nervous systems settled. When the body felt safer, expression became more available. People did not simply sound different — they felt more connected and more at ease in themselves.

This led me to train as a trauma-informed somatic therapist with the International School of Holistic Healing. I am accredited with ACCPH and practise as a vocal massage practitioner.

Today, my work integrates voice training, somatic practice and nervous system-informed approaches. I don’t see the voice as separate from the body that holds it as it is shaped by breath, sensation, identity, history and experience.

In sessions, we work collaboratively and at a pace that feels supportive. Depending on your needs, this may include vocal coaching, breath and resonance work, somatic awareness, nervous system regulation, or vocal massage.

Whether you come for vocal coaching, vocal recovery, or embodied voice work, my intention is to help you find greater ease, clarity and confidence in your voice, and a more grounded connection to yourself.