Hi, I’m Gary.

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 was constantly reading the room, learning how to fit in, how to protect myself, and how to tuck parts of myself away. It took me a long time to learn on to express my authentic self to the world.

That early attunement to voice, body, and atmosphere became the foundation of my life’s work.

I moved to London to train at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where I completed an MA in Voice. I later became one of a small number of Designated Teachers of the Linklater voice method, a psychophysical approach that frees the natural voice by working through the body rather than imposing technique from the outside. At its heart, this work is not about performance. It is about presence. It is about removing the habitual tensions, physical and emotional, that inhibit authentic expression.

For over 15 years, I have worked as a voice, speech, and text coach. I have supported private clients seeking vocal recovery, exploring gender affirming voice work, preparing for auditions, or finding clarity and authority in professional spaces. My professional work has included collaborations with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare's Globe, Royal National Theatre, Royal Court Theatre, BBC, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Age Concern England, as well as teaching across the UK’s leading drama schools.

Over time, I began to notice something profound. As clients released tension in the breath and voice, deeper emotional shifts often followed. When the body softened, long held feelings surfaced. When breath deepened, nervous systems settled. People did not just sound different. They felt different. More grounded. More open. More themselves.

This is where somatic therapy entered my work.

I trained as a Trauma Informed Somatic Therapist with the International School of Holistic Healing and am accredited to practise with ACCPH. My approach integrates voice work and somatic therapy because they are inseparable. The voice is not just sound. It is breath, sensation, history, and identity. It is shaped by our nervous system, by our experiences of safety and belonging, and by the strategies we developed to survive.

In our sessions, we work gently and collaboratively with the body. We listen to breath, sensation, and impulse. We build nervous system regulation. We create the conditions where expression can emerge naturally rather than being forced.

Whether you come to me for voice work, somatic therapy, or a blend of both, the intention is the same. To support you in feeling safer in your body, freer in your expression, and more at home in yourself.