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From: Tony
Date: 17 Oct 2006
Time: 01:48:37 -0500
Remote Name: 62.6.139.13
Hi Sally Thank you for your questions. The 1:1 sessions were OK, but I found the particular therapist fairly uninspiring. The group sessions were a disaster - a combination of collective story telling, but nothing at all inspirational (probably depends on the personalities in the group). Four of the group sessions were dominated by one former stutterer who had received some intensive therapy somewhere, was determined to tell us all about it, and wanted to carry on for several more weeks (the other therapists eventually stopped him). He had done well, and was terribly enthusiastic, but no-one tried to capture his experience and consider how we might put it to practical use. Afraid I gave up in the end. Two things produced results. Firstly, a 2 week stuttering course introduced slack syllabics, breathing techniques and made us go out into the towm to deliberately stutter as severely as we could to strangers. Sounds horrible, but it completely stopped me from being scared of stuttering. The second was a course of three hypnotherapy sessions, given privately by my family doctor. He concentrated on my self-confidence, and I came out of the first session feeling 9 feet tall (really). My stutter disapeared for around 1 week, but the other 2 sessions never achieved the same success. Thanks for asking! Regards Tony