For many people the fear of flying has led them to turn down jobs or promotions, to put off visits to family members who live far away, to pour over road maps or bus and train schedules when planning a holiday, or even worse, been forced to stay at home.

DC Hypnotherapy use a variety of techniques to directly communicate with the unconscious mind, which is where the irrational thoughts provoking a phobia come from. A phobia is a special form of fear which is :

• out of proportion to demands of the situation,
• cannot be explained or reasoned away,
• is beyond voluntary control and
• leads to avoidance of the feared situation

It is believed that a phobia is usually a result of the following factors:

• severe stress
• a series of stressful or negative experiences
• transmission from someone else (e.g. a parent or sibling)
• past trauma

The aim of therapy is never to completely eradicate the fear since a certain amount of fear is neccesary to allow the client to take sensible precautions to avoid danger. Rather the aim is to help the client to manage their fear or have a different response to the fear provoking situation. This is where hypnotherapy comes in. The treatment of a phobia will usually take between 3 and 5 sessions.