Vocal Artist Coaching
Online (Worldwide) and in Helsinki
For singers ready to step into their artistry and turn their vision into lived reality
Is this you?
You’re an experienced singer. You love singing and creating. You’ve dedicated your life to music — performing, writing, recording, guiding others, dreaming up new projects. But somewhere along the way, it’s gotten harder to stay connected to what first lit that spark inside you.
Things keep getting in the way, as you’re juggling it all: leading projects, managing your creative career, teaching, and trying to keep up with life.
You know what you ‘should’ be doing, but get overwhelmed by options. You’ve perhaps studied tons of vocal techniques and still have doubts about what your artistic voice really is.
You find it hard to prioritize your own practice, creativity and artistry. You have so many ideas — but don’t know where to start.
You want to feel that deep, effortless flow again — to sing and create from a place that feels true and alive.
You long to explore what authenticity means for you now — to peel back the layers of habit and rediscover your genuine sound.
You want to fix vocal inconsistencies, fine-tune your vocal technique, explore new sound options and tap deeper into your vocal skill.
You want to transform your Inner Critic into an Inner Supporter, so you can share your songs and stories with confidence, connection and joy.
You want to make art! Move from ideas and unfinished projects to finished creative milestones – write and record that next song or that album, create that concert or one-woman show that’s been in your mind for years.
What you’ll get when working with me:
Deeper connection with your voice, creativity and craft
You’ll tap deeper into the source of your artistry — to nurture your singing self, deepen your connection to your voice, creativity and craft, find new meaning in your music, and finish the creative projects that matter most to you.
“If you are looking for a place to get back in connection with your art & creativity, this is the place to be!
Working with Katja has helped me to place focus on myself, my voice and my creative work again in a playful way, check in with my voice and work daily, and to find joy again in working on my own voice next to a full teaching load. It has offered me a change of perspective on my own singing in sound, embodiment and storytelling.
I got back in connection with voice work, found focus and tools to balance teaching and creative work, and was able to dive deeper in my creative message.”
SASKIA BAK, VOCAL COACH AT SING WITH SASS, SINGER-SONGWRITER AT SASSY AND THE RHYTHM BOYS
Elevate your vocal artistry
You’ll grow vocal and artistic freedom, using the four core pillars of my approach to teaching voice: Sing From The Source: Body & Voice, Brain & Mind, Artistry & Creativity, Presence & Power.
Using holistic vocal training, techniques drawn from Complete Vocal Technique and other evidence-based singing methods, performance training and beyond, you’ll be able to go beyond just vocal technique to elevate your vocal artistry.
“I’ve performed and recorded for years. At some point I noticed I started putting songs in lower keys, because it felt more comfortable for my voice. Working with Katja has made me ready to make full use of my vocal range.
Now I have more control, especially over the use of the whole wide spectrum of tone colours that my voice is capable of. Not only do I have a better understanding of my instrument, but also more possibilities for musical expression.”
ESTRELLA ACOSTA, SINGER AT ESTRELLA ACOSTA & ESQUINA 25
Clarify your artistic identity
With artist coaching, you’ll be able to reflect on and clarify your artistic identity, mission and vision. You’ll have a community of like-minded singers to try out ideas with, find inspiration and support as you build on your unique path.
“Katja approaches my out of the box ideas as something unique and positive, and that helps me to embrace myself as the artist that I am.
I have gained confidence, faith and courage in my work, vocal stability, as well as more structure in my songwriting work. Katja really does her best to help you move forward, she does this with dedication and out of a genuine desire to see you grow and get better. She does it from her heart, you just feel it.
I have loved working with her, and felt safe, seen and heard. Her methods are professional, and for me: life changing. Because of her, I look differently at my voice, my body and my art.”
NEPHTALIE VAN DER BORGHT, SINGER-SONGWRITER-PERFORMER
Move past blocks and build a creative habit
With creativity coaching to help you move past creative blocks, build productive habits and circumstances that support your creative work, you’ll gain real momentum and finish meaningful creative projects.
“My creative flow exploded — I ended up writing not just one, but TWO albums.”
“Through working with Katja, things started shifting on many levels. I reconnected with playfulness, and that spread out to areas in my whole life. My singing became gentler, more expressive and dynamic. I found my own sound that was aligned with the stories I wanted to tell. My vocal range expanded, and singing started feeling much easier and more connected.“
JUDITH WESTERVELD, SINGER-SONGWRITER, VOCAL COACH
Support on your own creative path
Whether you’re returning to your creative work after a longer break, are just starting to figure out your creative career, or have been working at it for decades, you’ll get the support that matches your current needs so you can move steadily forward on your own path.
With mentoring you’ll be able to get clarity about where you’re at, reflect on your own process to find out where you’re going next and what you need in order to be successful with that. You’ll transform limiting mindset and get support in building your own creative team.
“Coaching with Katja is one of the best decisions I ever made. The combination of working on the mental side as a creator as well as the technique of singing have completely turned my life around.“
“I was given the tools to overcome the obstacles & (unknown to me at the time) limiting beliefs. I truly believe I would not have released my first single if it hadn’t been for Katja and I feel confident in continuing on my course of growth. Katja provides not only guidance & knowledge, but also the opportunity to share true thoughts & feelings without fear of being vulnerable. She is an expert in her field & helps you connect to the joy and opportunities as a creative.”
JOSIE AKERS, SINGER-SONGWRITER AT AKERS MUSIC
Hi there!
I’m Katja.
After getting a degree in music, studying vocal pedagogy and various vocal training approaches, getting certified in a modern vocal training method, teaching at a music university, and working with singers from seasoned professionals to hobbyists, I’ve seen over and over again how singers get stuck in their heads, overly intellectual about singing, and don’t know what they want to sound like despite being skilled at many techniques.
Too many singers work on their voices but lose touch with their singing Self and their creativity.
So I spent the past decade integrating everything I had learned about the voice with what I was learning in other fields that I was passionate about, including somatic voice work approaches, creativity coaching, meditation, mindfulness, mindful learning, improvisation, mindset work and personal development, metaphysics and energetics.
I love helping singers connecting with all parts of themselves, releasing the blocks to their voice and creativity, finding the sound, style, and creative projects that are aligned with their unique identity.
This voice work can also be combined with artist life coaching, to create alignment not only in your voice but in all areas of your creative life.
I have watched clients from all over the world unlock their creative voice, and I would love to help you do the same!
Why my coaching is different
My holistic approach to working with the voice integrates all parts of you and is tailor-made for each singer.
Many vocal coaches focus on vocal technique, solving vocal problems, and will give you exercises that are approaching voice work mainly from an anatomical/physiological point of view.
I’ll help you tap deeper than just learning vocal techniques and exercises, into awareness and mindful learning, and integrate that with creativity, musicality and artistry.
You’ll find and refine your unique sound through methods that integrates your voice/body, mind, energy, spirit and creativity, and release what blocks your vocal freedom and authentic expression.
Through our work together, your creative project ideas will come alive and you’ll get your creative work done. When you want to find alignment in your creative life, find new meaning in your creative work or are at a crossroads in your creative career, I’ll help you navigate and explore options through artist life coaching.
How it works
1. Book a free Consultation Call
We’ll talk about your goals and the ways you can meet them.
2. Your Initial Fit Session
We’ll do a voice assessment and put together a plan for your voice and creativity that’s aligned with your goals.
3. Transform your singing
Start your coaching, transform your singing & creativity, and make your creative projects happen!
Apply to work with me
Your tailored coaching journey begins with you filling in an application form and booking a free Consultation Call.
What you’ll get
Vocal technique to help you sing with ease and design your sound
I help you design your unique sound, while maintaining a healthy, effective and sustainable vocal function.
You’ll get to experience a voice that is expressive, authentic, confident and powerful, flexible across the range, able to switch styles and access a variety of colours and effects.
You’ll gain understanding in how your voice works, and learn to relate to it with curiosity, openness, patience, appreciation and trust, rather than from a place of fear, judgment, impatience or criticism.
My methodology for teaching vocal technique has developed over the past 20+ years of having been at the cutting edge of vocal pedagogy and studied methodologies including Complete Vocal Technique, Estill Voice Training based techniques, Bel Canto, from continued education in the fields of voice science and various vocal pedagogy approaches, and from having taught and coached hundreds of singers on all stages of their vocal journey from complete beginners, devoted hobbyists, music university students and emerging artists to seasoned professional recording and performing artists.
Mindset shifts
Your own mindset can be either supportive or unhelpful to your attempts to develop new skills, learn and confidently perform new repertoire, create new artistic work, and work on new goals in your creative career and artist business.
In our work together, I’ll help you identify and shift the mindset, patterns and habits that are limiting your creative work and affecting it negatively. You’ll learn to recognise what stories you’re holding on to that aren’t supporting you in achieving your creative goals and the vision you hold for your artist life and career.
You’ll also learn how to develop mindful practice habits that help you stay in the now and increase your focus and productivity.
A deeper connection to your artistry.
I’ll guide you to the source of your own artistry, help you develop and highlight what’s unique about you, clarify your why and your vision.
We can get there through a variety of ways, including music interpretation, style study, storytelling, using vocal effects like growls and creaks, improvisation, vocal and musical embodiment, and tapping into your imagination and creativity. Joyful and playful music making is at the heart of this work: creativity does not flourish in a paradigm where rigidity rules and we’re afraid to make mistakes.
At times, it can be helpful to include aspects of artist coaching into the work, to clarify your values, your mission and vision.
You’ll have access to my wealth of knowledge and experience from years of extensive studies in jazz, world music, and contemporary commercial music styles, vocal improvisation, from having toured with my own concert productions and theater show, worked in theater as a maker and coach, having taught voice and music interpretation at music university, and having coached recording and performing artists in developing their signature sound, clarifying their artistic identity and vision.
An experienced coach who is committed and dedicated to your growth.
With me as your coach, you’ll have a coach who not only helps you enhance your vocal technique skills, but helps you integrate all parts of you and find out what makes you unique.
Coaching in English, Finnish, Swedish or Dutch
While my classes and programs are mostly in English, I also teach and coach in my native languages Finnish and Swedish, and in Dutch that I am fluent in after having lived and worked in The Netherlands for 21 years.
“Katja is a great and enthousiastic teacher, with deep and detailed knowledge of the voice and how it works. I find her lessons inspirational and I recommend her strongly. She’s the kind of teacher that makes you sing the songs you never dared to sing and has solutions for every ‘problem’ along the way. Inspiring!”
Ways we can work together
Coaching Online Worldwide
I offer highly bespoke, 1:1 creative coaching and artist deep dives for singers, songwriters, musicians, and multi-passionate artists, who are ready to get unstuck and make their creative vision a lived experience.
In-person Lessons & Coaching in Helsinki
The Fireplace Room is located in the historical premises of Lapinlahti, by the seaside. On the premises you’ll find beautiful walking paths, ideal for coaching and mentoring walks, and a lunch café.
Apply to work with me, and we’ll make a customised roadmap to help you get you where you want to go.
Getting to the studio in Helsinki
Creative Voice
Lapinlahdenpolku 8
00180 Helsinki
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