Hi, nice to meet you here! I actually saw three speech therapists in France, but they all used traditional approaches like fluency shaping. It wasn’t until a friend introduced me to ACT that I started to look at things differently. I began applying ACT principles in my daily life on my own, not through a therapist. For me, the core ideas are quite simple but powerful: Accept that I’m a person who stutters, along with all the negative feelings that come with it. Recognize that these feelings are just thoughts, not facts. (For example: most people don’t care how I speak, it’s usually me who cares the most.) Shift my focus from “how I sound” to “what I want to do in life.” I didn’t practice ACT with a professional. Instead, when I face setbacks, I talk things through with friends in the stuttering community, that support helps a lot.