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>So, does anyone have any advice or recommendations for or against it? Any input would be greatly appreciated. Yes, I believe going back and do speech therapy is worth it if you perceive stuttering as a problem at University. I recommend to ask yourself what your goal is with speech therapy? Maybe you can tryout another therapy to 'approach another angle of the stutter cycle'. This [post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/108j0es/comment/j3tmm61/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) explains that different therapies have different strategies and goals. Question 1: What is your goal with therapy? Think of features like: * Learning correct ways of breathing. Do you experience breathing issues when you speak, like inhaling quickly, chest breathing or closing the vocal cords? Before you enroll in a breathing therapy, I recommend first tryout all the YT breathing videos like: 'inhale, then when you speak, relax your abdominal muscles'. Some therapists advocate to contract abdominal/back muscles in order to push out air while speaking normally although my vocal teacher is against it so likely relaxing the abdominal muscles is already enough to breathe out during a speech block * Tackling the underlying thoughts, feelings and behaviors that produces a speech block * Unlearning secondaries (e.g. unlearning tension, freezing) * Unlearning overthinking, overreacting and overrelying on techniques, auditory feedback or reassurance-seeking * Re-learning helpful ways of speaking (e.g. changing robotic voice to natural voice) * Exposure Therapy (with voluntary stuttering (EST) or without voluntary stuttering (ERP)) * Detangling, detaching and defusing attachments * Adding a new mental state created by affirmations, visualizing yourself in the best way possible, replacing problems (e.g. overthinking) into resources (e.g. confidence), boost self-esteem * Dealing with neuroplasticity (e.g. being aware of unhelpful thoughts, feelings and behaviors & learn from them e.g., learning that anticipation is not a problem, fearful or to be avoided with the goal of detaching importance, building tolerance and disconfirming expectancy. Tackling the stutter cycle from all angles (as oppose to only one). Interrupt, delay or limit the compulsion (i.e. 'not breathing out' or 'not moving articulators')