Nick Kemp - Flying Phobia Removal
A phobia of flying is one of the most common phobias that I treat. The flying phobics
tend to appear the most during the holiday season. It's useful to differentiate between
anxiety about flying and a phobia of flying. A person with anxiety may get on the plane
to fly, whereas the person with the flying phobia 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 treated a number of flying phobics on my marathon 26 week stint on BBC
radio and some of the sessions including one with a flying phobic can be found at
Phobia Cures with the BBC
When working with phobias and especially flying phobics 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 phobia, rather
than "why" they have it. Many clients with flying phobias have already tried traditional hypnosis,
psychotherapy and occasionally exposure therapy without success before seeing me privately.
From an NLP perspective there is a high likelihood that the flying phobic 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.
Most clients can have this phobia removed 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 sort out. After we changed the unhelpful
internal suggestions he was making to himself, the rest was easy. Then again if I kept
repeating "The plane is going to crash into the sea" in an anxious voice to myself, I probably
would not want to fly either!
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
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