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You're welcome. I didn't receive a strategy or technique based therapy. I read accounts on here of a lot of different techniques or strategies. And I'm familiar with a decent amount of them. But where I get the impression that some therapist rely heavily on these techniques as solutions or strategies, these were components of the therapy I received. I didn't learn to stop stuttering. I learn to speak fluently. And I started from the beginning. Most of the time that I spent in speech therapy was using fluency that I would never use in the real world. It was a layered / progression approach. When I get home and I'm in front of the PC I'll pull up some of my earlier posts in this subreddit that describe it better. During my journey to fluency, My stuttering was still just as pervasive in my everyday life. But in my weekly therapy sessions and during my practice everyday, I was building my fluency. I was instructed not to apply my fluency outside of the clinical setting or my practice sessions (alone.) My therapist and I agreed when the time was right to start applying my fluency outside of the office. At that point my fluency was extremely strong. I had two different manners of speech at that point. My disfluent speech which I had always had, and my new fluency. They were separate. And when I use my new fluency, I was confident in my ability with it. That's one of the things that I cringe at when I read some of the accounts in the subreddit. It seems that they're trying to overcome their stutter. Where as I learn to speak fluently.