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From: Timothy Koch
Date: 08 Oct 2011
Time: 21:48:01 -0500
Remote Name: 209.98.254.13
Thank you for your kind words. :) At the very beginning, therapy was mostly about educating myself about stuttering, which I had basically no knowledge of (this very conference is great for that), then we started to try to break down the cycle. At that point, it was (and still is) about preparing myself to expand my comfort zone, then actually doing so in small steps, by deliberately putting myself in speaking situations that I found difficult. With physical techniques for helping my speech sprinkled throughout the process. Nowadays I'd say that my therapy consists of about 80% mental and emotional work to 20% fluency work.