Condition
Stammering
Speech disfluency, often worsened by the anxiety around it.
Rehearsing a sentence before you say it, choosing easier words to avoid a difficult sound, dreading a phone call you'd otherwise make without thinking twice. While stammering has physiological roots, the anxiety around speaking situations frequently makes it worse, creating a cycle that's hard to break alone. At Chaitanya Raj in Vashi & Belapur, Navi Mumbai, we support clients working through stammering and the anxiety around it, led by Lt. Col. Rajesh Sharma (Retd), with over 25 years of experience in hypnotherapy and cognitive behavioural approaches.
Common signs
How it works
Counselling works alongside speech therapy, not in place of it, focused specifically on the anxiety component. Your first session is a conversation about which situations feel hardest, and what avoidance has already cost you. From there, we use CBT to reduce speech-related anxiety, with clinical hypnotherapy to ease the physiological tension that often intensifies disfluency.
Speech Anxiety Counselling
The anticipatory dread before a call, meeting, or introduction often does more damage than the stammer itself. This track works directly on that anxiety, reducing the anticipatory spiral that tends to make speech harder in the moment.
Adult Stammering Support
Many adults have lived with stammering for years and built quiet workarounds — avoided words, avoided situations — that have their own cost. This track supports reducing avoidance and building confidence in speech situations that have long felt off-limits.
Confidence Building for Public Speaking
Presentations, meetings, and public speaking bring a specific kind of pressure. This track combines anxiety-reduction technique with practical confidence-building, so speaking up feels less like something to survive.
Our approach
CBT to reduce speech-related anxiety, with clinical hypnotherapy used to ease the physiological tension that often intensifies disfluency. Works best alongside a speech-language therapist.
Frequently asked questions
No. This counselling addresses the anxiety and avoidance around speaking, and works best alongside, not instead of, a speech-language therapist.
Yes, particularly with the physiological tension that often intensifies disfluency under pressure. It's used alongside CBT for the anxiety component.
It varies by individual. A realistic estimate is shared after understanding your specific situations and history with speech anxiety.
Yes, every session is completely confidential, held between you and your therapist.