Or you find cubicles that have lower walls so your feet are less exposed. If you find cubicles that you can urinate in whilst someone is next to you keep practising those ones and slowly move onto others.

If I'm having trouble with someone next to me should I go back to having a buffer until I have that really nailed down or should I just continue trying?

Yes the workshop will help. That is what they are for

I'm at a similar stage to Michael and I'm having trouble going in cubicles with low walls when someone is next to me with the door closed, except I find it easier with low urgency, I feel more relaxed. When I'm in a cubicle with low walls and someones next to me I don't feel any anxiety but it's still a bit too close for me with someone right next to me even after faking a lot of times and if I have a higher urgency like 6-7 then sometimes I even lock up in situations that I would usually consider easy, it's as if the more uncomfortable I feel with regards to how full my bladder is the more privacy I need in order to relieve myself. I'm going on the Manchester workshop in March, will it help me progress with cubicles and levels of urgency?

Hey mate,

I've been there it seems impossible but I've progressed passed that. I started off in large quiet toilets were someone would be using a troff and I'd use the cubicle. Than progressed to using a cubicle with a buffer. Make sure you have done this buffer part alot of times before progressing. Then next to someone else but with a low wall then high wall. Then move onto open door but always make sure youre successful in each step alot of times before progressing. I am at the open door step. Sometimes I secceed other times I don't.

Michael, have a look at my reply to Ben's post titled "How to get started with gradual exposure". Then get back to me. Andrew