Foundations
For SLPs who aim to develop a strong, evidence-based understanding of stutter-affirming, holistic care and why it is essential to effective intervention. You’ll explore research highlighting that impact and lived experience—not just frequency or severity—should guide treatment, along with findings that support openness, acceptance, and reduced avoidance as key drivers of meaningful outcomes. This foundation equips you to confidently communicate with parents and clients about why therapy goes beyond fluency, helping reframe goals toward communication, self-advocacy, and a healthier relationship with stuttering.
Physical Stuttering
For SLPs who aim to build a clear, evidence-based understanding of the physical aspects of stuttering and how to support them within a stutter-affirming framework—without relying on traditional fluency shaping. You’ll learn how to help clients increase awareness of tension and speech patterns while introducing supportive strategies that reduce struggle rather than enforce fluency. This approach allows you to confidently target the physical experience of stuttering in a way that prioritizes ease, autonomy, and self-trust, while also helping you clearly explain to parents and clients why the goal is not “fluency” but more comfortable and effective communication.
Thoughts & Feelings
For SLPs who aim to gain a strong, evidence-based understanding of the affective components of stuttering, including emotions such as fear, shame, and frustration that often maintain avoidance and impact communication and self-esteem. You’ll learn how to support clients in building emotional awareness, reducing reactivity, and increasing acceptance through approaches grounded in desensitization, cognitive restructuring, and elements of CBT. This foundation helps you address the emotional experience of stuttering directly—while equipping you to guide parents and clients in understanding that meaningful progress includes feeling safer, more confident, and more willing to communicate, not just sounding more fluent.
Tailored to YOU
1:1 coaching is designed to be fully individualized, meeting you exactly where you are in your clinical journey. Each session is tailored to your specific goals, caseload, and areas of growth, ensuring that the support you receive is directly relevant and immediately applicable. Rather than a one-size-fits-all approach, this experience is collaborative and flexible—allowing you to focus on what matters most to you and your clients.
Victoria Dertouzos, M.A., CCC-SLP
Victoria has been a practicing speech-language pathologist for almost a decade and is the proud owner of Speech & Stuttering Therapy of New Jersey, a private speech therapy practice focused on supporting people who stutter. Prior to opening her private practice, Victoria worked as a school-based SLP, as well as a per diem medical SLP in the acute care setting. During this time, her priority was expanding her knowledge base to better serve those who stutter and their families. She has accrued over 100 hours of continuing education hours in the area of stuttering since 2020 and completed over 1500 hours of direct clinical activity (i.e, treatment, evaluation, parent consultation/training) in the area of fluency and fluency disorders in her career thus far. Victoria hosts Camp Dream. Speak. Live. every summer for kids who stutter and runs therapy groups for her clients. While she is extremely passionate about supporting those who stutter and their loved ones herself, she is especially enthusiastic about helping other SLPs feel confident in doing the same.
What's the buzz
Here's what SLPs have to say after working with Victoria
I truly value this and I’m very grateful to you for the structured way the information is presented.
Ukraine
What is impacting me the most is honestly just the general paradigm shift in how I think about stuttering therapy.
California
What we're learning is really lighting me up. I’ve honestly been feeling a little uninspired as an SLP for some time, and this is the first time in a while that I’ve felt genuinely excited about my work again!
Maine
Stop waiting for clarity to come
Get off of google and lean on your own expertise instead. You already have the clinical skills, you just need the evidence base and lens with which to use them effectively. Let's finally get you off the hamster wheel and confident in your stuttering therapy.