Exposure therapy is only one form of speech therapy. When I learned fluency, we worked in the privacy of the therapist's office, and I practiced daily in private. It was a progressive fluency program, where I built up to being able to speak fluently. It was probably close to six months before I was using my fluency in public or with others. Only after I had a record of success with my fluency and had strengthened my confidence in my fluency. Put everything else aside. Without consideration for your stutter or any other factors. What do you want? Do you what to be able to socialize. To freely engage in social situations? Too often, we surrender to our stutter. Too many of us let it make decisions for us. And such behavior makes us miserable. IMO, the long term damage from fear of our stutter is much worse than the short term discomfort of our stutter.