I'm glad it worked for you. I've heard story after story from a lot of other stutterers who had the same experience as me. If you are able to control your speech, it's because of the techniques. If you can't, it's because you didn't work hard enough. It's an infalsifiable logic that takes credit for when it works and passes the blame when it doesn't. The problem with fluency shaping isn't even necessarily the therapy, even if it reinforces the notion that you're broken but they can fix you. The problem is they market it that with hard work, you can be fluent. They boast these 90%+ success rates. The exceptions such as yourself can feel special and post that it works and if it doesn't they didn't work as hard as you. The rest of end up feeling like they wasted 5k and it's their fault. To use your boxing analogy, it would be more equavilent to boxing on a training dummy and expecting to reproduce the same on a real opponent. I'm not delusional at all. I've been in therapy most of my life. Hell, I've gone to an intensive fluency shaping program exactly like Hollins so I know what's it like. I've spoke with former Hollins clients. Our experiences are very similar. I also remember people from my program who loved it and had great results, but they were overwhelmingly the exception rather than the rule. I agree (good) therapy is wonderful and encourage everyone struggling to seek it out. What I caution are programs that claim they can teach you to control your stutter and charge 5k for this promise. As if their one size fits all solution can work for every person and every stutter.