Fear of Flying
Are you wanting to travel more, but find yourself resisting because the thought of flying or getting on an airplane is too scary?
Do you experience fear or dread about flying in the days, weeks or months leading up to a trip?
Perhaps you feel anxiety about flying when the door closes after boarding an airplane, or when about to take off.
Or, maybe you feel constant fear during a flight, anticipating turbulence, or for something to go wrong.
Fear of flying (or flying phobia) can be a debilitating experience
In addition to my various areas of mental health specialty as a therapist, I’m the creator of an internationally acclaimed approach to helping people overcome fear of flying and 
flying phobia. This therapy and coaching based approach is designed with you personally in mind, whether you are unable to fly or board an airplane at all, or if flying is still something you do, but with significant anxiety. As fear of flying varies in experience and underlying causes for everyone, the way we will work together is personalized around your emotional needs as a whole.
I have worked with people all across the world who once felt paralyzed and limited by the anxiety and fear that flying and traveling has caused — possibly similar to the way you may feel now. Even if it may be hard to imagine, it actually is possible to overcome the overwhelming fear and anxiety that flying can cause. In fact, it’s even possible to become excited by flying when you may have once been terrified by it. Our process will help you to travel with a newfound sense of empowerment, confidence, and freedom.
Our Work Together
While our overarching therapy or counseling process together will focus on overcoming fear of flying, another reason people have preferred this approach is because how the process works tends to also have a positive impact on other life issues outside of flying. For example, one of the benefits of working with an experienced therapist on this issue is the vast majority of people who go through this process find a noticeable improvements in other emotional areas, as well — such as with anxiety, or depression, improving confidence, and even how relationships are approached and handled.
How can improving fear of flying help in other areas of life, too?
Some significant pieces of improving fear of flying involves us looking at how you sit, for example, with vulnerability, or trust, or helplessness, just to name a few of the underlying possibilities. As we come to understand and help you through the areas that make flying so difficult and anxiety-inducing now, the ripple effect of these improvements tends to spread to other areas where, for example, trust and vulnerability can also impact your life (such as, anxiety in relationships).
In addition to fear of flying, I have specialties in various other areas as a therapist and coach. Therefore, when other life struggles come up that could use our attention, there is room for these conversations to also become integrated into our work here (and it is often interconnected anyway, which generally becomes helpful in the flying process, too). Simply said, there is room here for the struggles your are going through in your life, alongside the goal of overcoming fear of flying. It is okay and actually quite common for people to contact me to work on flying anxiety while also addressing other emotional or life goals simultaneously, if this is helpful for your situation. You’re welcome to reach out and we can discuss what you’re looking for together.
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