These may be *your* truths, but they are not everyone's. I disagree with you on several points. I was able to achieve fluency through speech therapy. I am a huge advocate for finding an SLP who specializes in stuttering. I found a program that worked and I worked the program. As such, the most effective way to work on fluency is to... Work on your fluency. With regards to techniques, I don't really believe in them myself. What I believe in is working on developing fluency. It's a process. It's foundational. It's building up to fluency. I often hear people refer to using one technique or another. What I hear people describe when they speak of techniques often sounds like one small step that was part of a larger development system. I cringe at some of the stories I hear about therapists sending stutters out into the world with what amounts to a couple tricks as far as I'm concerned. If that's been your experience, I can understand why you would feel as you do.