Yes, there is a definite and well documented link between anxiety and stuttering. Up to 60% of people who stutter suffer from social anxiety. The good news is that people who stutter respond very well to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) approaches. So a combination of CBT and speech therapy works best. This is why we will be incorporating CBT in our BeneTalk therapy app that we will be releasing in April 2020. One simple exercise that I find really helpful is this: Think of a recurrent, anxious thought connected to your stutter, e.g. "I don't want to speak. Everyone will stare at me." Ask yourself these 4 questions: 1. Do I have any evidence for this? - no, because you cannot foretell the future 2. Do I have any control over this? - no, because you can't control other people 3. How helpful is this? - it's not, it just makes you more anxious 4. How bad is this? - on a scale of 1-10 where 10 is death, how bad is this really? As I said, this is just a simple but very effective technique. To change your anxious thought patterns, you would have to repeat this daily.