Steven Wilkinson
I was born in the Lake District and studied at St Andrew university before moving to London to pursue a career in finance. Currently, I work in Philip Morris in Business Planning & Strategy. My first course was Bournemouth in November 2014 and by this time aged 32 was fully ready for the McGuire program and […]
Sabrina Hasni
Sabrina Hasni lives in the UK South region of London. Sabrina joined the McGuire Programme on the Bournemouth Course in November 2011. Sabrina will be moving to the Netherlands in October. When I was 3 years old, my father told me he struggled to stop me from speaking, he used to record me doing impromptu […]
Sabrina De Angelis
Most people who stutter have had a stutter since an early age, whilst for others, it can be caused due to an external factor. I never had a stutter until the age of 15. It would always appear during the exam period, whilst I was preparing for the IGCSE exams (equivalent to the GCSE exams […]
Rob Ellis
I have stammered since I was a child, and have attended various speech therapy programmes over the years without success. I attended my first McGuire Programme course with a degree of scepticism. The programme is tough and requires discipline, however like all things worth having, you get out what you put in. There is no […]
Richard Hopkins-Smith
For 35 years I had stuttered and struggled to say one word let alone a whole sentence. I first saw a speech therapist at the tender age of two. Over the years I have seen four speech therapists, seen a hypnotherapist once a week for a year, meditation with yoga classes. Attended speech support groups […]
Rich Whincup
I have had my stammer for as long as I can remember. My Mum says I used to stammer in my car seat… I have had my stammer for as long as I can remember. My Mum says I used to stammer in my car seat… I first heard of the programme when an Aunty of […]
Piers Adamson
I spent many years hesitating about whether to go on a McGuire course. I was in denial about how much my stammer affected me and was basically settling for a life I was not happy with. When I was aged 29, I decided enough was enough. I wanted to do more with my career and […]
Michael Joyes
I attended my first course when I was 20 after stuttering for many years. My stutter would hold me back in social situations, at University and stop me from expressing my personality. I had always planned to attend a course at some point after hearing about the McGuire Programme, but in the summer of 2012 […]
Michael Hutchinson
I joined the course the summer before University in 2009. I remember throughout school I always tried and failed to hide my stammer with substitutions and filler words to make myself ‘more fluent.’ I think my brain had trained itself to oppress all negative speaking memories, therefore I’m struggling to find any worthy examples. The […]
Michael Hay
It’s hard to put into words what I have gained from the McGuire Programme. You could say that I can now say what I WANT to say instead of what I think I CAN say. You could say that I now answer the phone rather than pretending that I can’t hear it. You could say […]