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Carrie Garrett is an experienced Voice Specialist Speech and Language Therapist with over a decade of NHS and private practice expertise. She graduated with First-Class Honours in Speech and Language Therapy from Birmingham City University in 2012 and has since held specialist roles at Wythenshawe Hospital South Manchester, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Worcester Acute Hospitals, and as Clinical Lead SLT in Voice at Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust. Currently, Carrie works part-time for the NHS at Birmingham Children's Hospital in the Paediatric Voice Clinic alongside Paediatric ENT Consultant Kate Stephenson.

Carrie transitioned to private practice in 2024 to dedicate more time to holistic and therapeutic work with clients. Drawing on 28 years of experience working with voices, she provides expert care for adults and children with voice and upper airway disorders. She has a specialist interest in working with Singers experiencing problems with their voices and regularly works with professional performers from Musical Theatre, Rock and Pop Industry, TV, and Broadcasting.

She regards multidisciplinary collaboration as integral to achieving excellence in care, working in close partnership with ENT, Neurologists, Gastroenterologists, Physiotherapists, Psychotherapists, Dieticians, and Voice coaches/ Musical Directors to support professional voice users, including performers across all genres.

Her expertise spans the management of diverse voice conditions, including:

* Muscle Tension Dysphonia / Functional Neurological Voice Disorders
* Throat discomfort; Laryngopharyngeal reflux; Chronic Cough; Laryngeal hypersensitivity
* Benign vocal fold lesions (e.g., nodules, cysts, polyps)
* Vocal fold palsy / RLN Injury
* Pre- and post-operative voice rehabilitation
* Voice changes resulting from thyroid surgery
* Ageing voice (Presbyphonia)
* Inducible Laryngeal Obstruction; Exercise Induced Laryngeal Obstruction (working with athletes)

Carrie also works with adults who stammer and those experiencing speech or voice changes due to Parkinson's Disease (she is a certified Lee Silverman Voice Treatment practitioner). She is also able to provide specialist speech and/or voice input as part of wider MDT rehabilitation process for individuals following traumatic brain injury, using music and singing to support the process when required.

Her clinical experience includes working in joint voice clinics with specialist laryngologists, speech therapy-led nasendoscopy clinics, Botox clinics for spasmodic dysphonia, and multidisciplinary clinics for professional performers. She has also worked as a Band 7 SLT in progressive neurological community caseloads, and across adult acute hospital inpatients (including respiratory, and head and neck maxillofacial).

Before becoming a speech therapist, Carrie trained as a singer and flautist at Birmingham Conservatoire and earned a degree in Popular Music Performance from Liverpool University. She performed and recorded professionally in rock, pop, soul, and jazz between 2001-2018, and has worked as community choir leader and music educator, leading a further and higher education music performance department for over seven years before retraining to become a speech therapist.

She is a registered Speech and Language Therapist and Vocal Massage Therapist with the British Association of Performing Arts Medicine (BAPAM). From 2018 to 2020, she served as a Vocal Rehabilitation Coach at Wythenshawe Hospital's Elite Performer's Voice Clinic, a role fully funded by BAPAM.

Her distinctive music/performance-based background shapes her holistic approach to voice therapy, seamlessly combining an in-depth understanding of the demands placed on performers with advanced therapeutic techniques. She integrates voice, mind, breath, and bodywork methodologies, tailoring each approach to meet the unique needs of the individual.

Areas of interest

Carrie offers compassionate, tailored care for all voice and speech challenges, combining clinical expertise with a deep understanding of the performing voice. She provides therapy both in-person and online for adults, children, and professional voice users.

Adults and children with voice problems; Rehabilitation of Singers and other Professional Voices; Throat discomfort; Laryngopharyngeal reflux; Chronic Cough; Laryngeal hypersensitivity; Inducible Laryngeal Obstruction; Exercise Induced Laryngeal Obstruction (working with athletes);
Manual Therapy; Vocal Massage; Laryngeal Manipulation; Myofascial Release; Communication problems following neurological impairments and degenerative conditions, including head injury and Parkinson's disease. Head, neck or throat cancer. Mental health issues. Physical disabilities. Stammering.

Medical secretaries

• Carrie Garrett
• The Singer's Clinic: Voice & Speech Therapy Florida House Ground Floor Suite 13 Comberton Hill Kidderminster DY10 1QG
• 07811 515954
• info@thesingersclinic.com