Elpida Koutsoubaki (BA, PgDip, ΜRCSLT) is a U.K. trained (City University) voice specialist, speech therapist and psychologist and has been in private practice in Athens, Greece since 1996. She is creator of the Integrated Voice Therapy approach to the rehabilitation of voice disorders, which she applies clinically and teaches internationally in workshops that target specialist training for all voice-related professionals. She is also creator of the Integrated Voice Therapy Academy, a unique online educational platform catering to scientific vocal training for hellenic and international voice specialists.

The Integrated Voice Therapy approach brings together the science of established speech therapy techniques with latest developments from the sciences of kinesiology, neurosciences, and psychotherapy, ensuring multifaceted and comprehensive treatment of voice disorders, with the most up-to-date rehabilitation techniques. Voice disorders are approached through the perspective of the “voice-mind-body-emotion” synergy and the voice as a trainable skill that can be restored through the balance of this synergy. Everyone, regardless of gender, age or profession can, in a relatively short time, rediscover the voice that will allow them to express themselves comfortably and safely. Rehabilitation of dysphonic problems resulting from unilateral and bilateral vocal fold paralysis, as well as psychogenic voice disorders, are fields of particular interest to Elpida.

Clinically, Elpida provides bespoke training, prevention and rehabilitation for voice disorders. In the educational setting, her specialized Integrated Voice Therapy training workshops are offered through live workshops and online webinars. Their object is targeted training of all voice professionals (speakers, singers, voice coaches, singers, ENT doctors, acting teachers, etc.), in the total management of the voice, for all voice needs.

Years of collaboration with multi-disciplinary networks of prominent phoniatrists, psychotherapists, voice physiotherapists, voice coaches and neuroscientists offer Elpida the ongoing opportunity for continuing development of the IVT approach. She is founding member of the Voice Mentoring team, a multidisciplinary team devoted to training and rehabilitation of the voice. Elpida has been involved with the creation and operation ofspecialistvoicetherapydepartments forthe Athens VoiceCentre, the Athens MedicalCenter(Voice and Swallowing Department), she was a founding member and head of the Voice Department of the Athens Voice and Swallowing Center and has collaborated closely with Voicecraft International Ltd.

Elpida is an independent collaborator at  the Pedagogical Department of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens and offers training workshops to undergraduate and postgraduate educational programs. The workshop for the ΜΑ program - Social Neuroscience, Social Pedagogy and Education, titled “Voice as a Communicative Medium” delivers bespoke voice skills training to the MA students. She has held similar posts as lecturer for the Voice Disorders module at the Metropolitan College of Athens as well as assistant lecturer in the Social Psychology and Statistical Research/Analysis courses at the University of Westminster, London. Her participation as invited speaker at numerous international medical and scientific voice conferences, workshops and seminars and her contribution to chapters in scientific books related to speech and voice therapy have established herpresencein the development of the science of voice therapy.

More recently, Elpida is completing training in the specialized field of Clinical Hypnotherapy with the aim of adapting this psychotherapeutic approach as an innovative complement to the IVT approach to voice rehabilitation and voice training.