For me, exposure therapy is less about trying to not stutter, but rather about becoming more comfortable with the situations where I WILL stutter. Anticipation will definitely make the stutter “worse” in the way that it will make your emotions surrounding it worse. Thats what the exposure therapy is for! For me at least, I enter most situations fearing judgment or laughter. But exposure therapy literally “exposes” me to these feared situations and drills into me that people won’t always respond negatively to my stutter, and that it is OKAY to stutter, and that I can do hard things! It is of less importance to worry about “training the stutter out of you” and more important to try to reframe your stutter into something that you aren’t afraid of and does not dictate your life! :)