Gary Horner

Therapist Directory Listing Category: Online Therapy

About the Therapist

About the therapist:

I’m a trauma-informed somatic therapist and vocal coach, and for over 15 years I’ve worked closely with people around trauma and their voice, speech, and expression. When the nervous system doesn’t feel safe, the voice adapts. It tightens, disappears, performs, pleases, or shuts down. When safety grows, expression changes naturally.

In our sessions we don’t only talk about what’s happened to you but we pay attention to how it lives in your body right now. We might work with breath, sensation, sound, pacing, and awareness alongside conversation, always gently and at a pace that feels manageable.

People come to me for many reasons: trauma (including PTSD and CPTSD), anxiety, vocal difficulties, gender transition, burnout, or the experience of becoming flooded or losing clarity when trying to speak. Sometimes there isn’t a clear label; just a sense of “I don’t feel like myself when I communicate.”

We go slowly enough for your nervous system to stay with you. From there, change tends to happen in a very human way emotions feel less overwhelming, communication becomes clearer, and your voice starts to feel like it belongs to you rather than something you have to manage.

My role is to help create the conditions where your system no longer has to work so hard to stay safe.

Sexual identity:

Gay
Other
Queer

Gender identity: I use another term

Gender history: Prefer not to say

Intersex: No

Neurodivergent: No

Personal pronouns: he/him

Qualifications - Links to websites:

Trauma Informed Somatic Therapist https://www.isohh.org.uk/counsellingtraining

Designated Teacher of The Linklater Voice Methodology - Freeing the Natual Voice https://www.linklatervoice.com/designated-linklater-teachers/teacher-training

MA Voice Studies https://www.cssd.ac.uk/courses/mamfa-voice-studies-teaching-and-coaching

Mental Health First Aid https://mhfaengland.org/individuals/

Qualifications - Additional:

Experience and approach:

Over the years I’ve trained in a range of therapeutic approaches and worked across the public sector, charities, and independent practice. What this means in practice is that I don’t try to fit you into a single model, instead we build an understanding of you together and connecting the mind, body and emotional worlds together.

Our work is collaborative and evolving. We stay curious about your patterns, your history, your nervous system, and how all of that shows up in your body and voice right now. From there, we decide together what feels most helpful - whether that’s gentle somatic work, talking therapy, voice exploration, or more structured tools.

Approaches: