Nick Kemp - Flying Phobia Removal
Fear of flying is one of the most common fears that I work with. People with fear of flying tend to appear the most during the holiday season. It's useful to differentiate between anxiety about flying and extreme irrational fear of flying. A person with anxiety may get on the plane to fly, whereas the latter will not even entertain the possibility of getting on a plane. In fact in most instances merely thinking about flying or seeing a plane fly overhead, provokes an extreme fearful response.
In 2006 I helped a number of people with fear of flying on my marathon 26 week stint on BBC radio and some of the sessions including one with a fear of flying can be found at BBC Radio Sessions
When working with people who have extreme fear of flying I use my Provocative Change Works approach (visit provocativechangeworks.com for more information and products) which combines insights from over two decades of studying personal development, NLP, Hypnotherapy, Provocative Therapy and other approaches. My focus in client sessions is to explore "how" the client is creating the irrational fear, rather than "why" they have it. Many clients with fear of flying may have already tried traditional hypnosis, psychotherapy and occasionally exposure therapy before seeing me privately. From an NLP perspective there is a high likelihood that the person is creating the anxiety by what they are picturing or thinking to themselves. In other words the fear is created by "how" they are processing the experience through the senses.
Many clients can be helped in 2 - 3 sessions or less, providing they follow advice and listen back to the recordings of the sessions. A client on one of the BBC sessions who had a fear of flying, took me just 20 minutes to bring about helpful change. After we changed the unhelpful internal suggestions he was making to himself, the rest was easy.
"My honeymoon was definitely enhanced by the fact I could cope with the flying experience and I think there was part of me that actually enjoyed the flying! So thank you very much for helping me with this, and it definitely worked. My partner was quite amazed at the difference in me."
Jane T
"Just to confirm that following my 2 hour session July 4th 13.00 - 15.00; I went for a trial flight last November to Jersey and back from EMA. Thought it would be remiss of me if I didn't tell you I have just returned from a holiday in China [Shanghai]. From one extreme to the other but... Listened to the CDs before setting off - enjoyed the experience - thank you!"
Harold
"You are a magician!"
Kim Vara
"Please to report success!!
Slight nerves on takeoff but managed to watch the landing each time, and on the final leg looked out as we took off!
Brilliant
Many thanks"
Mary
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