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Lori L. Sonnenberg, Voice Pathologist

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Lori L. Sonnenberg, Voice Pathologist

Specialized voice and breathing therapy services. Comprehensive voice care services. Expert care for the singing voice and other professional voice users.

Performing arts medicine. Voice and Breathing Therapy, Speech Therapy, Singing Voice, Professional Voice Care, Transgender Voice, and Paradoxical Vocal Fold Movement.

08/28/2025

“There’s power and potency in creaky voice.”

We love hearing how singers and voice professionals are bringing Creaky Voice Technique into their own practice and sessions with clients, unlocking stability, flexibility, and freedom in the voice.

From thinner, effortless belt to richer mix and even breakthroughs in complex voice disorders, this versatile tool is truly a "Swiss Army knife" for the voice. Thank you for this amazing review and stories of how creaky voice helped you recently!

Want to learn how to apply it in your own teaching or practice? Check out the upcoming workshop Closing the Gap: Creaky Voice Techniques to Reduce Adduction.

Here's the details:
🗓 September 26, 2025 from 9:00AM - 10:30AM (CDT) via LIVE online
🎥 Can’t make it live? All registrants get a 2-week recording playback

Your vocal toolbox isn’t complete without this. Are you ready to explore the power of creaky voice?

Link to register in first comment ⬇️

08/27/2025

At Sonnenberg Voice, your voice is our priority.

Our team includes three highly specialized voice pathologist SLPs and a private professional voice instructor, who work together to deliver the highest quality care for voice, upper airway and singing disorders. We’re committed to supporting our clients at every stage of their vocal journey, including those navigating the critical period after voice therapy.

Our services are tailored to meet the needs of the individual with personalized treatment plans, education, and ongoing support. With both in-person and online availability, you’ll never have to navigate voice recovery alone.

Learn more at our website link in first comment below or send a DM.

08/26/2025

We love hearing from our clients and celebrating their successes. Every. Single. One.

It is an honor and privilege to guide clients in their vocal recovery. Getting results and helping our clients get back to doing what they love to do, whether for professional or personal reasons is our highest priority.

If you are suffering from voice change, loss or difficulty, and aren't sure where to start, we would love to help you. If you've been looking for solutions but just haven't found the right voice team to get you the results you want, we would love to hear from you.

📩 Send us a message today and let’s take the first step together toward finding your voice again.

08/22/2025

🪄 Can creaky voice techniques really transform vocal function, recovery, training and performance? One attendee called it “like magic!"

It was a joy to present my workshop “Closing the Gap: Creaky Voice Techniques to Improve Adduction” at ! I’ll admit—I was a little nervous about the Sunday afternoon slot (final hour, last day 😅), but WOW… you all showed up! So many dear friends and colleagues showed up in full force to support me and learn about this favorite technique. And the response was so positive with great questions, discussion and feedback.

As a private practitioner in a solo clinic, I don't get the opportunity (or have the funding) to participate in peer-reviewed research of my own clinical techniques and their application. I'm grateful for the opportunities to present on them in these settings. Creaky voice is one of my passions as a clinician, and I have so much anecdotal evidence and testimonials from my 1:1 work with clients to support its benefits. As one of the attendees said after participating this past Sunday - "it's literal magic!"

I've been getting tons of messages from those of you who attended and have been sprinkling the creaky exercises into your own teaching, singing and work. Thank you for sharing. I love hearing these stories!

🌟 Want to learn more about creaky voice and vocal adduction?
Registration for Closing the Gap: Creaky Voice Techniques to Improve Adduction is NOW OPEN!

Led by Lori, who’s been using this technique with singers, clients, and SLPs for 20+ years, you’ll learn step-by-step exercises you can apply immediately in your own practice or with your clients.

This workshop is perfect for singers, SLPs, vocologists, teachers, and voice professionals of all kinds!

Here's the details:
🗓 September 26, 2025 from 9:00AM - 10:30AM (CDT) via LIVE online
🎥 Can’t make it live? All registrants get a 2-week recording playback

Your vocal toolbox isn’t complete without this. Are you ready to explore the power of creaky voice?

Link to register in comments ⬇️

08/21/2025

✨ Meet Vivi! ✨

Vivi is the friendly face (and organized mind!) behind the scenes at Sonnenberg Voice. As our Administrative Assistant, she keeps everything running smoothly. From scheduling and patient communication to making sure our team has what they need to give you the best care possible.

When she’s not keeping the clinic in perfect harmony, Vivi loves playing the bass guitar, getting lost in a good book, and finding creative ways to make life more efficient (and fun!).

08/20/2025

Are you curious about creaky voice, and how it can transform your singing, teaching, or voice therapy work?
Then Closing the Gap Workshop: Creaky Voice Techniques to Improve Adduction is for YOU!

This upcoming workshop will show you how creaky voice can be a powerful tool for:
✅ Improving adduction and enhancing vocal sub-systems balance reducing unwanted vocal tension patterns
✅ Supporting vocal rehab & training
✅ Expanding vocal freedom & flexibility

Led by Lori, who’s been using this technique with singers, clients, and SLPs for 20+ years, you’ll learn step-by-step exercises you can apply immediately in your own practice or with your clients.

This workshop is perfect for singers, SLPs, vocologists, teachers, and voice professionals of all kinds!

Here's the details:
🗓 September 26, 2025 from 9:00AM - 10:30AM (CDT) via LIVE online
🎥 Can’t make it live? All registrants get a 2-week recording playback

Your vocal toolbox isn’t complete without this. Are you ready to explore the power of creaky voice?

Link to register in comments. ⬇️

08/19/2025

Excited to make this announcement "official!"

This Fall, I'll be joining the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at Saint Xavier University (SXU) in Chicago . My Adjunct SLP Professor role will involve teaching the Graduate Voice Disorders course for 50 graduate students and future SLPs. I'll still be full-time in my private practice. What a wonderful opportunity to bring these two dream jobs together.

It's exciting and busy as you can imagine! I'm celebrating so much about my career journey. Remembering when I first decided to make the leap into the SLP field. I'm thrilled to be going into the college classroom again but this time as a veteran Voice and Upper Airway Specialist with over 20 years of "boots-on-the-ground" clinical experience.

Can't wait to meet my new students and bring them my own flavor of this course that is informed by countless hours in the therapy room with my patients. I hope they're ready to dig in and love the human voice as much as I do!

08/15/2025

🎤 Are you struggling with an invisible illness in the voice world? You are NOT alone.

If you are a singer, actor, SLP, voice teacher, choral or theater director, or adjacent voice professional, and you have an invisible and dynamic chronic health condition, such as Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia syndrome (POTS), Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes (EDS), or Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders (HSD), advocating for the right accommodations can make all the difference in reaching your vocal goals.

One of my biggest takeaways from last week’s in Toronto was discovering this incredible resource from , filled with stories, research, and tools to help voice professionals and students alike reach their vocal goals.

Visit this site to learn more about educating yourself, your students, your peers and colleagues, as well as how you can support the website, the project, and the team behind it. Check it out here ➡️ https://www.chronicallysinging.com/

💫 BONUS - some dear friends and colleagues of mine are also involved in the research and the initiatives behind it.

08/14/2025

🤧 Allergies might not directly cause vocal injury, but they can absolutely lead to an unhappy environment for our delicate vocal fold tissues, making us more susceptible to swelling and injury.

Persistent inflammation, swelling, post-nasal drip, and that constant urge to clear your throat can create a cycle that makes recovery harder. Mornings can be especially difficult for these kinds of symptoms, most notably for singers.

If every allergy flare leaves you hoarse, without a voice, or missing your high notes, it might be a sign of underlying swelling or a functional voice issue that needs attention.

Seek out a voice care team or doctor to help you find the right treatment to minimize symptoms, and protect your vocal health, whether it’s just during seasonal changes or all year long.

🗣 Your voice is worth protecting. Don’t wait until symptoms get worse! Seek support and keep your voice at its best.

To learn more about how to protect your voice from allergies, read my blog post here 👉 https://www.sonnenbergvoice.com/post/allergy-management or 🔗 click the link in bio.

08/12/2025

🚨Teachers, your lesson plans are ready… but is your voice?

The school year is right around the corner, and that means your voice will soon be working overtime. The good news? Getting it ready doesn’t have to be complicated.

Remember that voice loss, vocal fatigue, and hoarseness are common complaints among educators and directors, and this is especially true during the first few weeks of the fall semester. This is a common theme in voice therapy this time of year, too. While all that downtime vocally over the summer is a much welcomed thing and provides needed vocal rest, it tends to make things a little more challenging at the start of the school year. Gaining back the vocal stamina, and endurance to teach without vocal fatigue is the priority.

Here’s one simple way to start prepping now so you can hit the ground running. It’s important to have a plan to recondition the voice, and have reasonable expectations of your voice as you ease back into full-time vocal demands. 💬

To learn more how to protect your voice as an educator, read more on my blog by 🔗 clicking the link in bio, or follow here ➡️ https://www.sonnenbergvoice.com/post/protecting-your-voice-as-an-educator

08/07/2025

Think all straws are created equal when it comes to vocal exercises? Think again! 🥤🧃🧋

Straw phonation is wildly popular as a SOVT exercise and a simple, effective way to reduce effort in our speech and singing. We use it in singing lessons , studios, backstage, in the car, and most notably in clinical voice therapy settings. I encounter a lot of people who are using small coffee stirrer sized straws for these exercises. This will likely create too much back pressure.

🌟 As a Voice SLP, here’s my go-to guideline:
The more dysfunctional or impaired the voice is, the larger the diameter of straw we need to begin with. This makes the benefit of the exercise more accessible in the beginning stages., reducing effort and improve the shape and position of the vocal folds.

As the voice improves, we can slowly reduce the diameter of the straw, allowing for slow, steady progress without excess effort and too much back pressure.

Have you using straw phonation? Share your favorite straw set-up in the comments below! 💬

08/06/2025

Just returned from my very first International Congress of Voice Teachers ICVT in Toronto. It was 4 very full days of learning, networking, connecting with old and new friends, and presenting my own work on Creaky Voice techniques. Thank you to the leadership and planning committee for your hard work and dedication to this event.

There were extra special conversations and people with shared passion, insight and vision for the future of voice science, education, performance, care and singing rehabilitation. It was a fabulous blend of voice science, pedagogy, and performance and the fabric that weaves us all together in these related fields. There were so many hugs, smiles, laughs, joy, and applause.

Proudly celebrating my role as a Singing Voice Rehabilitation Specialist-SLP in this field and the privilege of supporting singers in their recovery every day. My job is pretty amazing!

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1431 Opus Place, Suite 110
Downers Grove, IL
60515

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Monday	9:30am - 5pm
Wednesday	9:30am - 3pm
Thursday	12pm - 5pm
Friday	9:30am - 3pm

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+16304421883

Website

http://www.sonnenbergvoice.com/

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