Your voice is a powerful gateway to freedom.

Find Your True VoicE With Jess McAvoy (they/them)

I’m Jess McAvoy — a Brooklyn-based voice coach, performance artist, and teacher with over 30 years of lived, professional experience in voice, embodiment, and creative expression. Originally from Perth, Australia, my work has grown from decades on stage, in studios, and in rooms where people are trying to remember who they are underneath habit, fear, and performance.

I’ve released 15 studio projects since 1994, staged an off-Broadway rock theatre work (The Search), toured internationally, and spent my adult life asking one central question:

What happens when a person stops performing who they think they should be — and lets their real voice come through?

That question sits at the heart of my coaching.

Voice Coaching That Goes Deeper Than Technique

I didn’t set out to become a voice coach. Teaching began as a side practice alongside my work as a musician — and then something became undeniable.

People weren’t just singing better.
They were changing.

Confidence shifted. Nervous systems softened. Creative blocks dissolved. People began speaking, singing, and taking up space in ways that felt truthful — sometimes for the first time in their lives.

What I discovered was this:
I have a natural, intuitive ability to hold space, read people, and guide them back to their own intelligence — vocally, emotionally, and creatively. Coaching stopped being adjacent to my art and became another expression of it. An act of service. A discipline. A calling.

Today, I’m known as one of New York City’s most highly rated voice coaches, trusted by singers, actors, speakers, creatives, and people who never thought they “had a voice” at all.

My Approach: Somatic, Intuitive, Trauma-Informed

This is not one-size-fits-all vocal training.

My work blends:

• Proven vocal technique

• Somatic and body-based practices

• Nervous-system awareness

• Intuition, curiosity, and deep listening

Every session is shaped around you — your body, your history, your voice, your goals.

I work in a trauma-informed, LGBTQIA+ affirming, neurodivergent-aware space, where you don’t have to explain yourself or fit a mold. As a queer, non-binary artist, I understand firsthand how much conditioning lives in the voice — and how liberating it is to let that conditioning go.

This work isn’t about fixing you.
It’s about uncovering what’s already there.

Who I Work With

I work with:

• Professional and emerging singers

• Actors and performers

• Speakers, teachers, and facilitators

• Artists rebuilding confidence after burnout or trauma

• Humans who feel disconnected from their voice and want it back

Whether you’re refining your craft, preparing for performance, or simply longing to feel more at home in your own sound — this work meets you where you are.

I offer private voice coaching (in-person in Chelsea, Manhattan, and online worldwide), as well as The Sing Easy™, my acclaimed group singing workshop that has grown into both a methodology and a thriving community.

Why This Work Matters

Voice work isn’t just about singing.

It changes how you:

• Speak up

• Take up space

• Regulate emotion

• Express desire

• Trust yourself

Your voice is not separate from your life.
When it opens, everything else moves with it.

Ready to Begin?

If something in you is stirring — if you feel the pull to reclaim, expand, or deepen your voice — trust that.

I’m a mid-priced voice coach by New York standards, and I work with people who are serious about meaningful, lasting change.

👉 Schedule a consultation to discuss your goals, see if we’re a fit, and begin the work.

Your voice is waiting.