Carmel Moore
B.App Sc. MSPA, C.P.S.P
Carmel Moore is a Certified Practicing Speech Pathologist and member of Speech Pathology Australia and the Australian Voice Association.
Carmel has practiced as a Speech Pathologist since graduating with distinction in 1985. Carmel was head of the innovative Speech Pathology department at War Memorial Hospital in Waverley NSW for 14 years. For the past twenty-three years, since relocating to the Northern Rivers, alongside her private practice, she has worked in hospitals, community health, transition care and residential care settings. She has also provided home based services to DVA clients, My Aged Care and NDIS participants.
Carmel worked for many years as part of a rehabilitation team and understands the value of working closely with other treating health professionals. Having worked in the Northern Rivers for 23 years, Carmel has close working relationships with health professional whom she can recommend when appropriate.
Carmel has a range of additional skills and trainings that may be useful adjuncts in the treatment of communication and voice challenges. She has been working with a holistic bio-psychosocial approach for many years.
Carmel is a dual-trained yoga instructor and has more than 25 years experience teaching both hatha and meridian-based yoga.
Carmel undertook postgraduate studies at Sydney University National Voice Centre to investigate the effects of yoga on voice production. She has presented at multiple professional forums nationally and internationally describing how certain yoga and mindfulness principles and practices may be used as an adjunct in voice therapy.
She published in the peer-reviewed Logopedics, Phoniatrics, Vocolology Journal in 2012. Logoped Phoniatr Vocol. 2012 Dec;37(4):144-50. doi:10.3109/14015439.2012.731080. Reflections on clinical applications of yoga in voice therapy with MTD. Moore C. Read here
She has also studied various somatic based modalities helpful for aligning posture for voice production, including ‘Movement Intelligence’ developed by Ruthy Alon (one of Moshe Feldnkrais’s original students).
In addition to 15 years experience as a cranio-sacral balancing practitioner, Carmel trained with physiotherapist Walt Fritz in hands-on myofascial release techniques for voice and swallowing..
She has great respect for the vocal physiotherapy work of Annie Strauch with whom she has trained in hands on techniques to ‘unload the larynx’ to access more efficient and easeful voice production. She combines Annies work, myofascial ‘anatomy trains’ and yoga to help find optimal body posture and engagement for voice production.
Carmel has more than 300 hours training in facilitating ‘Voice dialogue’, a practical jungian based counselling process that works with different ‘sub-personalities’ or ‘parts’ of ourselves (somewhat similar to Internal Family Systems).
Carmel is a singer, musician, and teacher of the improvisational process InterPlay, which allows her to creatively optimise learning and skill acquisition within the scope of evidence-based speech pathology.