Rochester, NY-based Registered Dental Hygienist Elizabeth Dooher Anthony recently invited me to speak on her Serdentity podcast. "This channel is for people who want to know more about dental fear-how it happens, how it can be prevented, and how to work through it. This channel is for dental care professionals and dental patients." Elizabeth has taken the Foundations in Manual Therapy seminars, and incorporates the concepts into her myofunctional airway practice.

Those who follow me know of my mistrust of single-explanations narratives for both the causes of problems and the effects of interventions, notably fascia-first perspectives. Canadian Voice Coach and educator Jeremy Mossman and I had gone a few preliminary rounds on social media, sussing each other out as we presented what might appear to be conflicting viewpoints on various topics. Like gentlemen, we thought it would be better to put our ideas on film and work to find common ground (which we did!). I hope you enjoy our talk.

I'm fortunate to get invited to talk with really cool people. Diane Matkowski, LMT (AKA The Massage Mentor), asked me to return to speak about what's on my mind. Diane hosts some excellent people, and I was honored to be able to share my take on the unequal weighting traditional manual therapy models promote as applied to patient input and shared decision-making.

Nathan Noor, PT, invited me to be a guest on his Perfecting PT podcast. We began discussing the work I teach to speech pathologists and related professions, but quickly moved into discussing shared decision-making (SDM). SDM, while acknowledged throughout the literature as a necessary inclusion into the PT model, is seldom acted upon in any meaningful way. We discuss this problem and ways to remedy it. You can listen at this link or find it on your favorite podcast channel.

SLPQuest (India) invited speech-language pathologists from across India to contribute questions for this talk. Questions centered around safety, efficacy, and diagnostic-appropriate inclusions for manual therapy with voice, swallowing, airway, and related disorders. While this interview is an introduction to my work for classes planned in India in November 2025, the information contained may serve others when making decisions on treatment.

I’ve been asked a few times to record interviews for the BAST (Be A Better Singing Teacher) podcast. In this interview, we speak about “mastering” tongue tension.

Speech-language pathologist and certified orofacial myologist, Nicole Goldfarb and I discussed the more general principles of physical therapy and manual therapy with the myofunctional population.

Renown voice teacher Kari Ragan asked me to speak about stretching for voice improvements on her podcast.

Rob Klienberg, PT, invited me to an interview for his website, Rock the Recovery. Our talk centered around my history at a physical therapist and my creation of the Foundations in Manual Therapy: Voice and Swallowing Disorders seminar. You can read the interview here.

I've been a long-time admirer of The Thinking Practitioner podcast and the work of Whitney Lowe and Til Lucau. Til asked me to talk about dealing with chronic cough with a real patient, such as massage and manual therapy educator Ruth Warner.

I was honored to be asked by Judy Rodman, a renowned performer and vocal coach, to talk about my work on her podcast, All Things Vocal.

Eric Purves, RMT, asked me to appear on his podcast, "Purves Versus", where we discussed the importance of finding an acceptable balance in our understanding, our communication, and how we teach continuing education. Our treatment interventions aren’t always just about one tissue or a special technique; they are more complex than that, and the outcomes people experience are more strongly related to the strength of the therapeutic relationship. You can listen to our talk at this link.

Brett Kane had me as a guest on his 21st Century Vitalism podcast.

Discussing Person-Centered Model Approaches of Manual Therapy for SLPs. I had the pleasure to again be interviewed by Wilson Nice, SLP, on her Nice Speech Lady podcast on shared decision-making and how it applies to the SLP.

I teach my manual therapy for voice and swallowing disorders seminars in person and online. This includes a hybrid one-on-one version of the Introductory and Advanced classes taught in my Upstate New York office. Thanapat Yartcharoen (Film) is a vocal coach from Thailand who had taken my Introductory Foundations in Manual Therapy: Voice and Swallowing Disorders and Balancing the Body classes on previous visits to the United States. On this visit, he spent two days in my clinic, where we worked through the extensive content of the Advanced class in a one-on-one setting. Film asked to film a post-class interview for his Thai vocal performing clientele and was kind enough to share the video with me.

Takeaways from manual therapy: At the recent class in Eugene, Oregon, I sat down with Melody Sheldon, ClinScD., CCC-SLP, to talk about the class for her podcast, Speech Plus so much more. You can listen below.

Join me as I speak to the hosts of The Agentic Voice, for a talk on power imbalances in the therapeutic setting.

Based on overlapping concepts and ideas, the orofacial myology and myofunctional community have been regular attendees at my live workshops. I was honored to be interviewed by Brittny Sciarra, RDH, on her Eye Spy With My Myo Eye podcast.

I had the pleasure of being interviewed for the BAST website (Be A Singing Teacher), with the topic, UNDERSTANDING MANUAL THERAPY. We did some extra hands-on work, which can be viewed below.

Crossing the Chasm, when it comes to transitioning to a new system of beliefs, seems a rite of passage for many in the therapeutic communities. The Chasm, in this case, refers to the well of uncertainty regarding how we explain our various work. In manual therapy, the Crossing often refers to moving from older, historical views of tissue-based or pathology-based explanations into updated and multifactorial explanations. My leap was gradual, and I explain how the process went in this interview. Though presented from a physical therapist’s perspective, the evolutionary process is faced by many, be they massage therapists, physical therapists, speech-language pathologists, and more. Jamie Johnston, RMT interviewed me for his MTDC Community.

Australia-based Dr. Marissa Lee Naismith had me on her “A Voice and Beyond” podcast, where we spoke of how manual therapy and touch-based cueing overlap and how the voice coach can integrate aspects of manual therapy into their practice.

I was there for Episode #22 of Theresa Richard’s Swallow Your Pride podcast (available here), where I dive into dysphagia from a manual therapy perspective, and I’m back in Episode 215, Mastering Manual Therapy. You can listen to this episode here.

Wilson Nice, host of the Nice Speech Lady website, has been kind enough to host me for a number of interactions, including a video interview and what has become, to me, a seminal conversation on tissue specificity, Anatomy Matters, but Which Anatomy? Join Wilson and me for a far-reaching discussion on this topic and others.

Juliette Caton, host of the UK-based Podcast Vocal Scope, and I spent some time speaking to the role of manual therapy and the performing voice. You can listen here.

I was invited to be a part of the UK-based Naked Vocalist podcast, hosted by Steve Giles and Chris Johnson, I spent some time talking about manual therapy’s purpose in voice and performance, as well as moving through some self-care routines.

I joined Rani Lill Ajum, P.hD. in philosophy at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, and Stephen King, UK-based vocal coach and vocal massage therapist, for an hour-long talk about complexity and causation in the manual therapy patient.

The Thinking Practitioner Podcast. Shared decision-making: In this episode, Whitney Lowe talks with Walt Fritz about key challenges in the world of manual therapy.

Pain Reframed Podcast: In this episode, Liz and Jeff chat with Walt Fritz. Walt has been a physical therapist since 1985 and has integrated manual therapy into that model ever since 1992. He trained with many traditional tissue-based instructors, including myofascial release and craniosacral therapy, but became dissatisfied with the narratives used to describe the work and effects and began to move into a more biologically plausible explanation. While continuing to use a hands-on approach that visibly resembles those earlier models, he has neutralized the implied message by now referring to the work he uses and teaches as "manual therapy." Building on concepts firmly grounded in the biopsychosocial model, as well as the possibly undervalued third leg of the evidence-based practice model (patient preferences and values), his model of intervention and professional education stresses a patient-led experience. He believes that manual therapy need not be a passive modality, one that fosters patient dependency, but a subset of therapeutic intervention that reduces fear of movement and encourages self-efficacy, one well-grounded in evidence-based practice.

If you are a follower, you’ll know my stance on so-called fascially-based therapies. Yet when the opportunity arises, I enjoy discussions on fascia.

“And so our December 'Focus on Fascia' continues! Last week in Ep.79 we were joined by highly esteemed Julian Baker of Functional Anatomy and Ana Barretxeguren of Evolve Movement Education.

This week we welcome to the show live from New York: Walt Fritz and Tania Velásquez.”

I was recently interviewed by Nancy Hillman, for her Sunshine Speechie podcast.