Tips to improve stuttering - that you learn from a hypnotherapist: * replacing your discomfortable feeling into a happy feeling (that you had when your sybling had a birthday) * creating a new personality (acting as if) * creating a new mental state where you don't look back on anticipatory fear. The hypnotherapist will also explain that negative thoughts are not the same as incorrect thoughts that maintain the stutter mentality * The hypnotherapist will often use visual tools to ask you if the incorrect thought or feeling is warm, cold, big, small, has a color and will ask you to make it smaller, in black-white or put in a box * Shock therapy aspects include going against your expectations while visualizing a problem, then the hypnotherapist will ask you questions if you are feeling sad and learning that it's not actually a problem * He can then say "you feel happy when you are surrounded by people" (changing outlook) * or he asks "do you want to avoid or engage" (hypno bind) * or he asks "do you want to engage for 10 or 20 minutes" (double bind technique) * body scanning, eye fixation or countdown breathing * creating an anchor or trigger (like snapping the finger) * doing visualizing techniques * doing the rewind [technique](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rewind+technique) where you visualize for 15 minutes that you stutter. The rewind-technique is: visualizing that I'm behind the projector, watching myself standing in a cinema who is watching myself sitting in a chair, who is watching myself on the cinema screen where the movie replays 'me stuttering' - then distance myself from this picture and slowly let it fade away I recommend the book: "Mastering blocking and stuttering" by Bodenhamer. It uses visualization exercises that you learn from a hypnotherapist, NLP therapist or Neuro-Semantics therapist. In hypnotherapy, I used the rewind-technique. Afterwards I did not stutter for 3 days. I wasn't used to the fluency achieved, so much so, that I said to myself that I wasn't ready for fluency and.. the thing is, I wanted to return to that 'save' image of myself stuttering. After I told myself this, after a couple of hours I started stuttering again. That's my story. So in short, I'd recommend, only do hypnotherapy if you are 100% and I mean actually 100% ready for fluency, otherwise you will subconsciously perceive it as a problem or mismatch, and your subconscious becomes emotionally conflicted due to fluency in my experience at least.