Neurological
Neurological
Neurological
Hilary specializes in helping people with Parkinson's, stroke (CVA), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), and any neurological disorder that impacts communication and cognition. Hilary is a licensed SPEAK OUT! provider with the Parkinson Voice Project and is certified in the Lee Silverman Voice Technique (LSVT LOUD), both proven to help individuals regain and retain their speech and swallowing. Hilary's work also targets word-finding difficulty, speech fluency, articulation, attention, concentration, memory, executive function, affect, and mood. She leads a free support group every month at The Estuary in Old Saybrook.
Developmental
Neurological
Neurological
Hilary helps school-aged children with expressive, receptive, and social language skills. She has contracted with the Hartford Public School system for the past three years, and enjoys discovering and supporting each child's unique interests, and helping them to find their voice. She also provides parents, carers, and teachers with communication strategies to better connect with their child/student.
Gender Affirming Vocal Therapy
Gender Affirming Vocal Therapy
Gender Affirming Vocal Therapy
Hilary specializes in helping trans, non-binary, and gender diverse people of all ages communicate with greater authenticity and self confidence. She helps to explore and create desired changes in voice and speech using techniques to modify pitch, resonance, intonation, and prosody, as well as speech patterns and non-verbal communication, including body language. Hilary helps to discover and uncover one's authentic voice--the voice within that most fully and genuinely reflects them. This process is technical as much as it is intuitive, inwardly reflective, and highly individual, ensuring that one is not simply "putting on" or fabricating a voice, but they are accessing and expressing who they truly are.
Professional Voice Users
Gender Affirming Vocal Therapy
Gender Affirming Vocal Therapy
Actors and other professional voice users have unique needs and challenges with voice and speech. Vocal projection, good vocal hygiene, speech articulation, accent/dialect modification, and the ability to express emotions clearly through the voice and face are skills that come in handy. Having trained and performed as an actor herself for many years, Hilary understands these needs and she enjoys serving a therapeutic role "behind the scenes". Hilary has been a guest instructor at Kimball Studio, an acting school in New York City, where she also trained.
