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

"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 (after having removed a phobia of flying)

"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 (cured of flying phobia)

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