Certificate in Gender-Affirming Voice & Communication with Gillie Stoneham

Welcome to Voice Study Centre’s Voice Professional Certificate programme. We offer a series of micro-credentials to develop learning, teaching and boost your CV. This is one of them!

Tutor: Gillie Stoneham

Gillie Stoneham has over 20 years’ experience in voice and communication, including as a Senior Lecturer at Plymouth Marjon University and an Advanced Specialist Speech and Language Therapist at the Gender Identity Clinic (GIC) in London. She has specialised in trans and non-binary voice and communication since 2006; this includes co-authoring two books that have the voices of trans and non-binary people at their heart – The Voice Book for Trans & Non Binary People (2017) and Voice & Communication Therapy with Trans & Non Binary People (2021).

In 2021, she established a voice service at the West of England Gender Identity Clinic and she has now works within her independent practice.

Gillie has published a variety of journal articles and presented at conferences and symposia both nationally and internationally. These include the European Professionals Association for Transgender Health and as a member of the British Association for Gender Identity Specialists (BAGIS). Her research interests include applying improvisation and singing in trans and non-binary group work, and trans-masculine voice therapy.

Outside of her gender affirming voice specialism, Gillie has (since 2002) been a director of ActorFactor Ltd, a company specialising in using bespoke theatre and improv techniques for exploring voice and communication skills within personal impact development, and also operates a small voice coaching practice. With a unique skill set as a coach, a speech and language therapist (SLT) and an actor facilitator, Gillie provides specialist voice and dialect coaching in both corporate and clinical contexts.

Join Gillie for a deep dive into coaching transgender voices, drawing on her specialist knowledge to deliver introductory and orientation material right through to professional competence and vocal coaching implications – and everything in between.

This five-part ‘Gillie Stoneham Certificate in Gender-Affirming Voice & Communication’ runs on Wednesdays (5-7pm London time) from 20^th November – 18^th December 2024 and offers a great way to develop your learning and boost your CV with an ITOL-accredited certificate.

This course is fully accredited by The Institute of Training and Occupational Learning (ITOL).

Upon completion of the course, you will receive an official ITOL-accredited certificate, a badge for your website/social media and a profile on our student page.

Your assessment will consist of a Case Study and Reflection.

Please note you do not need to have an existing coaching practice at the time of attending the certificate.