Welcome to the Voice Care Centre
The VOICE CARE CENTRE is not only the home of Vocal Massage in the West End, but is also London’s first multidisciplinary centre for REHABILITATING or MAINTAINING your voice.
If you have never booked with us before then you may wish to book your INITIAL ASSESSMENT. In the initial assessment, you will be triaged among our brilliant team of holistic and medical voice practitioners who will tailor a plan to get you to where you want to be. Each client can have up to EIGHT practitioners (including our voice specialist ENT surgeon) sharing information and forward planning back and forth. We are confident that nowhere else in the UK provides this kind of personalised, friendly and accountable service.
The VOCAL MASSAGE treatments that we perform have become synonymous with the words “Pain Free”. Each Vocal Massage is as important to us as it is to you, with your safety and comfort the most important factor of the treatment. The Vocal Massage treatments we deliver in Central London are unique yet powerful, and all delivered by voice specialists who truly understand what it is to be a professional voice user.
The (voice specialist) SPEECH THERAPY team are extremely effective at restoring function to your voice post surgery and can help alleviate the symptoms of complex voice diagnoses. This service is also used as part of our internal referral framework, helping restore function to the whole voice, not just the singing voice. This service is available as part of our AT HOME treatment plan.
MINDSET COACHING helps you slow down, focus and reassess. Your successful healing is inter-dependant on how clear your thoughts are, and whether you are attaching negativity to your work/ process. Usually one session can give you the tools by which to secure a healthier mindset towards your body and voice.
VOCAL COACHING is a huge part of our multidisciplinary approach at the VOICE CARE CENTRE, and truly is an important missing link between therapy and normal function. Although our studio is separate to the clinic centre, notes will still be shared backwards and forwards from each practitioner, with your privacy and data fully protected by encrypted email servers and ‘2 factor authentication’. The Vocal Coaching appointments are made here:
VOCAL REHABILITATION is the final step between your surgery, speech therapy and your singing teacher. Each Vocal Rehabilitation booking is a block of 3 sessions which enable you to regain control and use your voice with minimal effort again.
NUTRITION is a powerful missing link in the world of health and wellbeing which is often overlooked. This service can help tailor a nutritional or dietary programme to you, from a Voice Specialist Nutritionist who understands the demands of a singer.
OSTEOPATHY has a long and important history with intervening with stubborn tensions, aches and pains and generally keeping your body running at an optimum. Our vocal osteopathy sees therapeutic intervention take place with the vocal, digestive and respiratory systems.
OUR TEAM all possess specialist knowledge and qualifications within their treatment discipline, and are great listeners too. We know that the interaction of a treatment is just as important as the treatment itself, so we developed a process that helps boost the interaction you have with the therapist.
At the VOICE CARE CENTRE, our personal touches to the treatment mean that people trust us, and come back time and again to help keep their instrument in good working order, and having been trusted by some of the West End’s biggest names, we are confident that we can help you get your voice to where you need your voice to be.
Our track record includes:
Treating non pathologic throat pain
TMJ treatment including clicking jaw joints, severe jaw tension, TMJ-D, Tension headaches in the temporal region
Treating tongue tension, tongue pain
Manual therapy for loss of vocal range, stamina or power
Therapeutic interventions for Acid Reflux
Speech / manual therapy for Post head and neck cancer radiation treatment
Treating Globus Pharyngeus
Treating Muscle Tension Dysphonia
A Message from the Founder
Stephen King
Founder
Back in 2017 I had a vision of what joined up, true multidisciplinary care for your voice could be. I had just finished coaching on an International TV talent show, and found many aspects could have been greatly improved for the care of the artists and professional voice.
The VOICE CARE CENTRE started as a small room at No.1 Harley Street one Sunday afternoon a week (formerly called; King Manual Therapy), with just me and a massage table. Since then, we’ve gone through being set up in a full time multidisciplinary Physiotherapy/ Osteopathy Clinic in Covent Garden, and now we have our own space in Soho, with 7 team members.
Everyone who works with me here is truly in the upper echelons of voice specialism in the UK, and I am constantly amazed and honoured at how truly kind, humble and powerful the team are. Our level of care is second to none, which is why we won the Healthcare Provider of the year at the Industry Minds awards (2019).
I believe that everyone deserves the right to a treatment that doesn’t feel threatening, and can have amazing results without any pain. It might sound to good to be true, so you’ll just have to come and see for yourself!
What Our Patients Say
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I had an operation on my vocal cords the previous year and my voice was starting to fail again and I was loosing it to speak let alone anything else. Visiting the team here has given me more confidence and some great tools to understand my voice better and how to maintain it. I definitely appreciated the holistic approach to what might be impacting my voice and the follow up has been fantastic. That there are quite different practitioners means you'll easily find someone that suits your preferred style too. I'd definitely recommend them. Connon MacRae
10/27/2020 - I’ve only had 1 coaching session and 1 massage with Stephen and it has been a complete eye opening and rewarding experience! Within 20 minutes of his techniques and training I was feeling better and stronger about my voice mentally and physically!
The massage completely released so much tension and I felt so much more clear and relaxed singing after!
Will definitely be back soon!
Cassius Hackforth
2/21/2020 - I’m a cabaret performer using my voice in very tricky venues and difficult sound systems large and small, year round. I could not be without a pre and post Xmas entertainment season massage from Stephen. The whole team are lovely and they are so knowledgeable. Their investment in the industry in general is remarkable and you couldn’t be in safer hands!
Chastity Belt
7/13/2020 - Always feel confident when coming to Stephen that I will receive an incredible and effective treatment. I know I am in safe hands as Stephen is so knowledgeable, confident and amazing at what he does! Would always recommend!
Elizabeth Armstrong
2/21/2020 - I have never been met with anything but the upmost professionalism from all staff at the Voice Care Centre. Each member of staff is highly trained and knowledgeable in each of their respective areas, and they always make you feel welcome and comfortable. I particularly want to mention Stephen, who has been an incredible teacher. He is always encouraging to his students, and is always striving to learn more. His love of learning and development clearly shines through in all he does with the Voice Care Centre.
Conor O'Boyle
3/25/2021 - I absolutely recommend the lovely team at Voice Care. I have been struggling with voice issues/ pain and food issues that affect my voice. I have seen the speech therapist and the nutrionist online and I had a massage yesterday!
I am so grateful of all the support I have had from you all and wanted to say a big THANK YOU!! The sessions and the way the whole thing is set up is fun and amazingly creative and poetic. They are very hopeful and you will feel heard and this is essential! Positive people who trully get to know you and hold a safe space for you to heal and look after your voice 💕🙌🏾🙌🏾🌞 Magic
Tina Bueno
7/22/2020 - Voice care centre and more specifically Stephen has absolutely changed my life. Stephen and the team are absolutely wonderful and so caring. I’m lucky enough to say that Stephen is my mentor and he goes above and beyond. Jenevora’s rehabilitation was also just what I needed to get back on track. I put my trust (and my voice) in their hands and they did not disappoint! I’d highly recommend voice care centre and the team to absolutely anyone with a voice, it’s essential :)
Giorgia Mel
3/22/2021 - The support at the Voice Care Center has been incredible, truly one of the most worthwhile experiences I have ever had. Previously, I had lost all hope in finding help with my pain management and was completely lost on the path of my musical career. At the Voice Care Centre, every member of the team I met with combined talent; admirable, skilled knowledge and a committed sense of empathy. This compassion describes them professionally and runs through them as kind-hearted human beings. My body is stronger, my outlook on life is happier and my musical abilities are more confident. They graced me with their understanding so I can smile and sing again without pain.
Ellii Olivia
8/20/2020 - I have had 3 wonderful treatments at King Manual Therapy, at the Covent Garden clinic and at the gorgeous spacious new clinic in Soho.
I originally went to see Stephan for a vocal massage after several months of feeling that something wasn’t quite right with my larynx.
After a thorough consultation with Stephen, I was given a diagnosis and treatment plan. Stephen made me feel really comfortable and at ease, his professionalism and expertise made me feel that I was in safe hands - I had never had a vocal massage before so everything was very new to me. He explained what he was going to do before he did anything and checked in with me if I felt like what he was doing felt useful to me. After the first treatment the different in my voice was AMAZING and the first time in months I hadn’t felt the tightness I had and I could swallow comfortably! I was absolutely thrilled with the result! Since that treatment, I now go and see Stephen as part of keeping good vocal health!
The Soho clinic is beautifully spacious and very calming. It’s so easy to book and reschedule if necessary. I can’t recommend Stephen and his team enough! Thank you!
Georgia Reid Hamilton
3/20/2020 - From booking, to my actual appointment with Stephen, I was taken care of every step of the way! After just one session my voice feels incredible; I left the clinic feeling revitalised and energised.
The Voice Care Centre is fantastic, Stephen and the team are 5* with a wealth of knowledge.
Thank You!
oliver thomson
3/25/2021