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Holistic Voice Rehabilitation
Specialization
- Clinician
Specialization
- Group Coaching/Workshops
Specialization
- Licensed Speech/Language Pathologist
Specialization
- Singing
Joanna Cazden
836 N California St
Burbank, CA 91505-2919
8188456654
joanna.cazden@gmail.com
http://www.joannacazden.com
About Business
One-to-one services include voice rehabilitation (with medical clearance/ diagnosis); laryngeal massage; fundamentals of healthy technique and warm up for all genres or performance; restorative energy healing. Specialty work with aging voices. Group workshops by arrangement; consulting for voice teachers and early-career voice clinicians.
Additional Information
Preferred Name
Joanna
Correct Pronouns
she/her
Bio
Vocal wellness advocate, singer, speech pathologist, energy healer. Author "Everyday Voice Care: The Wellness Guide for Singers, Actors, and Talkers: 2nd edition in press for fall 2025, NATS publications (Bloomsbury). www.joannacazden.com
Primary Professional Affiliation/Institution
The Voice of Your Life, Santa Cruz CA
Primary Affiliation Title
Vocal Arts Training and Rehabilitation Specialist
Degrees
MS Communication Disorders and Sciences, California State University Northridge 1992; MFA Acting, CalArts 1982; BA Drama/Acting and Directing, University of Washington 1973.
Applicable Training and Certifications
Certified in Healthcare, Performing Arts Medicine Association; Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework; Advanced level Walt Fritz training in laryngeal-region massage; Estill Voice Training System level 1; Advanced ThetaHealing; Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology. Currently in training as Practitioner of Spiritual Mind Treatment, Centers for Spiritual Living.
Areas of Specialization
1:1 Coaching
Clinician
Group Coaching/Workshops
Licensed SLP
Open to Mentoring a VASTA member
Pedagogy
Singing
Other (Please list in your bio)
Professional Organization Affiliation(s)
VASTA
ASHA
PAMA
The Voice Foundation
NATS
Selected Work Experience
Lecturer to Fitzmaurice Institute and other teacher training programs in USA and UK. Senior voice clinician at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles 2001-2020; clinical instructor California State University Northridge 1992-2001. Professional singer and musician with six solo albums, appearances at major folk and feminist-music festivals, and ongoing music projects; founding Director of Sholem Community Chorus, Los Angeles (1988-2021). z
Selected Publications
Everyday Voice Care: The Wellness Guide for Singers, Actors, and Talkers. 2nd edition in press (NATS publications/Bloomsbury); first edition Hal Leonard music publishers, 2012.
"Revising Authenticity: Case Studies of Media Actors in Voice Therapy" (Voice and Speech Review 2022.)
"My Journey to Here," personal memoir. (Voice and Speech Review 2021)
"Stalking the Calm Buzz: how the polyvagal theory links stage presence, mammal evolution, and the root of the vocal nerve" (Voice and Speech Review, 2017), recipient of Dudley Knight Award for Vocal Scholarship.
"Screaming for Attention: The Vocal Demands of Actors in Video Games" (Journal of Voice guest editorial 2017.)
Numerous magazine columns on vocal health and technique in Onstage, Folkworks, Electronic Musician, Whole Life Times.
How would you describe your career stage?
Late Career
In which of the following areas do you regularly work?
Clinical/Speech Language Pathology
Private Coaching
Other (please specify in the "comment" box below)
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