Gender Affirming Voice Modification Therapy

Anna Lichtenstein, a speech-language pathologist at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center discusses gender-affirming voice modification therapy which is part of a comprehensive gender-affirming care program to help those who are transitioning  find their voice.   A team works with transgender  patients to modify  voice  characteristics like pitch, inflection, resonance and breathing patterns to help them develop a  voice  that matches  their  gender  identity without causing long-term damage to the vocal cords which can happen when patients take on this process alone.

Anna Lichtenstein, MA, CCC-SLP (she/her) is a speech language pathologist in the Ohio State Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. She earned her Master of Arts in Speech Language Pathology from The University of Toledo in 2015 and received her Bachelor of Science in Speech Language Pathology and Audiology from Miami University in 2013. Anna has been working in the outpatient clinical setting since 2015 and primarily provides gender-affirming voice modification services for the transgender and gender-diverse community. This service helps transgender and gender-diverse individuals find a healthy voice that is more congruent with their gender-identity. Anna received recognition for her dedication to this specialty area in 2020, when she was honored with the Diversity in Business Award through Columbus Business First.