>It's like I know when I'm going to stutter before it happens, it has nothing to do with confidence. Anticipating stuttering falls under anticipatory fear. These [youtube](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=reducing+anticipatory+anxiety) videos explain it. Therapists and psychologists who specialize in anticipatory fear, may give you different exercises. Like, focus on the throat or other body sensations that anticipate your speech block - without trying to reduce this feeling, just mindfully be with it and learn that the anticipation feeling is not dangerous, that you are safe, aim for removing the meaning of this sensation that you associated with it, and finally, accepting anticipatory feelings and thoughts by acknowledging they exist in your mind, while letting go of them by keeping them in your mind whilst moving your attention away to calm breathing.