TIRED OF SPEAKING FEELING SO DIFFICULT?

Helping adults who stutter take the stress out of speaking ☺

What's been making speaking feel so stressful for you? Explore your experiences, ask questions, and discover whether coaching could be the right next step for you.

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I know how hard and frustrating stuttering can be…

If you find yourself in mental and emotional distress due to stuttering on a daily basis, coaching services and programs are available to support you on your journey. Don't lose hope, help is on the way!

TIRED OF SPEAKING FEELING SO DIFFICULT?

Helping adults who stutter take the stress out
of speaking

How to be a happy stutterer

What's been making speaking feel so stressful for you? Explore your experiences, ask questions, and discover whether coaching could be the right next step for you.

Are you struggling?

Are you suffering from the mental distress and emotional overwhelm that tends to be part of the stuttering experience? If so, support is available to help you stop the struggle!

I know how hard and frustrating stuttering can be…

If you find yourself in mental and emotional distress due to stuttering on a daily basis, coaching services and programs are available to support you on your journey. Don't lose hope, help is on the way!

Your first step
starts here

To change your experience with stuttering, a critical step is knowing yourself and your relationship to it. Begin by taking this 10-question quiz that's fun and easy to discover your type of stutter personality.

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Support for mental and emotional distress

How to be a happy stutterer

1 HOUR

Confidence Booster Coaching Session

Fast support targeted to help you get back to confidence and fluency in an anxiety-ridden speaking situation.

3 SESSIONS

Speak in the Spotlight Coaching Package

Focused sessions to help you feel relaxed and confident in the most pivotal speaking moments of your life.

The Happy Stutterer What is Speech Coaching

12 SESSIONS

Find Your Flow to Fluency Program

Intensive support over 3 - 6 months of Zoom calls and worksheets to help you control the factors behind stuttering.

The hardest part isn't always the speaking

To everyone else, you may seem fine. But inside, speaking can feel like a constant mental game—one that's exhausting to carry day after day.

  • Rehearsing what you'll say before you speak
  • Avoiding conversations, introductions, or certain situations
  • Scanning every word before it leaves your mouth
  • Living with the fear of being judged or misunderstood
  • Replaying conversations long after they've ended

If this feels familiar, you're not alone. You've been coping the best way you know how, developing strategies that helped you get through each day. But surviving isn't the same as feeling free.

Many adults who stutter spend years focusing only on speech. But speaking is about more than speech. It's also shaped by your thoughts, emotions, behaviours, relationships, environment, and nervous system.

That's why lasting change often begins by addressing everything surrounding the speaking experience—not just the words themselves.

The Stuttering Emergency Relief Kit - You might feeling stressed when

The hardest part isn't always the speaking

The Stuttering Emergency Relief Kit - You might feeling stressed when

To everyone else, you may seem fine. But inside, speaking can feel like a constant mental game—one that's exhausting to carry day after day.

  • Rehearsing what you'll say before you speak
  • Avoiding conversations, introductions, or certain situations
  • Scanning every word before it leaves your mouth
  • Living with the fear of being judged or misunderstood
  • Replaying conversations long after they've ended

If this feels familiar, you're not alone. You've been coping the best way you know how, developing strategies that helped you get through each day. But surviving isn't the same as feeling free.

Many adults who stutter spend years focusing only on speech. But speaking is about more than speech. It's also shaped by your thoughts, emotions, behaviours, relationships, environment, and nervous system.

That's why lasting change often begins by addressing everything surrounding the speaking experience—not just the words themselves.

What changes when speaking feels easier

What changes when speaking feels easier

What it's like now

  • You dread conversations before they even begin
  • You avoid opportunities because speaking feels risky
  • You overthink every word before you say it
  • You replay conversations long after they're over
  • You feel like your stutter controls your life

What's possible

  • You show up more confidently—even if you still stutter
  • You speak with less fear and more self-trust
  • You stop overthinking every conversation
  • You recover more quickly when speaking feels difficult
  • You spend less time managing your speech

Support beyond speech therapy

If speech therapy helped but speaking still feels difficult, coaching can help you address everything else getting in the way.

1-Hour Session
Get a boost of confidence

3-Session Package
Get ready for a
special event

The Happy Stutterer What is Speech Coaching

12-Week Program
Get beyond
the struggle

Paige Smith Stuttering Coach Founder The Happy Stutterer

Hi, I'm Paige

Certified Professional Coach (CPC) I Ex-covert Stutterer

I used to hear “just accept your stutter” and wonder: But HOW?

Yes — acceptance is important. But when you’re stuck in fear and shame, it’s not that simple. Knowing what to do doesn’t mean you know how to do it.

I became a coach because I wanted to help others navigate the "how"—the real work of moving from speaking in survival mode toward confidence and self-trust.

Not overnight. Not perfectly. But one step at a time — with someone by your side who has been there and totally "gets it".

"As a result of working with Paige,
my stress and anxiety related to stuttering greatly reduced."

MICHAEL, USA

Support beyond speech therapy

If speech therapy helped but speaking still feels difficult, coaching can help you address everything else getting in the way.

1-Hour Session
Get a boost of confidence

3-Session Package
Get ready for a
special moment

The Happy Stutterer What is Speech Coaching

12-Week Program
Get beyond
the struggle

Paige Smith Stuttering Coach Founder The Happy Stutterer

Hi, I'm Paige

Certified Professional Coach (CPC) I Ex-covert Stutterer

I used to hear “just accept your stutter” and wonder: But HOW?

Yes — acceptance is important. But when you’re stuck in fear and shame, it’s not that simple. Knowing what to do doesn’t mean you know how to do it.

I became a coach because I wanted to help others navigate the "how"—the real work of moving from speaking in survival mode toward confidence and self-trust.

Not overnight. Not perfectly. But one step at a time — with someone by your side who has been there and totally "gets it".

"As a result of working with Paige, my stress and anxiety related to stuttering greatly reduced."

MICHAEL, USA

EARLY LAUNCH

Sometimes it helps to chat things through

Start with a confidential, low-pressure chat about what's been making speaking feel so stressful. Explore your experiences, ask questions and discover whether coaching could be the right next step for you.

Paige's Coach Companion is currently in beta. It's been trained on Paige's lived experience with stuttering, coaching philosophy, and years of supporting adults who stutter. Every conversation and piece of feedback helps make it even better.

This AI powered coaching conversation is not a substitute for therapy, mental health care, or medical advice.

EARLY LAUNCH

Sometimes it helps to chat things through

Start with a confidential, low-pressure chat about what's been making speaking feel so stressful. Explore your experiences, ask questions and discover whether coaching could be the right next step for you.

Paige's Coach Companion is currently in beta. It's been trained on Paige's lived experience with stuttering, coaching philosophy, and years of supporting adults who stutter. Every conversation and piece of feedback helps make it even better.

This AI powered coaching conversation is not a substitute for therapy, mental health care, or medical advice.

Hello! I'm Paige

Portrait of Paige Smith who is a coach at The Happy Stutterer

Fluency Coach for Stuttering

I'm a certified professional coach offering services to guide and help you overcome the many factors that impact you and your stutter— especially when it varies in degrees of severity in different situations with specific people (ex. authority figures).

My younger self didn’t know how to overcome the chronic feelings of fear, anger and shame that the experience of stuttering tends to bring. It's a vicious cycle and an exhausting emotional roller coaster, am I right???!


It might be hard to believe now, but I know it’s possible to get to a place in life where stuttering no longer feels like the mountain you just can't seem to get over.

I’m living proof that it's doable— and I know it’s possible for you too.

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What's your Stutter Personality?

Take this insightful 60-second FREE online quiz, to gain awareness on what's really going on beneath the nature of your stutter.

What's your Stutter Personality?

Take this insightful 60-second FREE online quiz, to gain awareness on what's really going on beneath the nature of your stutter.

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Certified through the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC), one of the world's leading coach training organizations.

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Certified through the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC), one of the world's leading coach training organizations.

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