As someome who provides intensive mental health support to families with ineffective communication dynamics, I’m always aware that people can define words differently. Two things can be true - techniques can mean outdated and ineffective tools (originally intended to treat artic issues) used by unaware SLP’s - AND there can be “things” one can do to be able to say what they want, when they want, and how they want. Also, I use the term “brain based” when professionally discussing how to support a child/parent having an unwanted amygdala response. But we may define it differently? The only way to know is to discuss. After a medical issue (dramatic drop in iron/ferritin levels) my fear-based blocking also increased dramatically, and I’d appreciate support with getting back to my baseline of very minimal fear-based blocking (and only occasional and brief repetitions). Here’s a post I wrote over a year ago with my beliefs. Does it align with yours? https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/s/CHcPmzQzY4