Treatment
Treatment
The treatment takes place primarily through therapy sessions with a duration of 50 minutes, but can also when clients have extreme fear include a flight together with the therapist. The number of therapy sessions and treatment approach is obviously dependent on the severity of the flight anxiety but usually requires 3 to 5 therapy sessions. 
During the course of treatment, you should put into action a prepared and training flight that could go from Stockholm to Malmö or some other destination at a similar distance. Two sessions with a duration of 50 minutes, which includes the history of how and when the fear of flying aroused, and what your symptoms are and what you actually do in the fear situation. Psycho education of what anxiety is and what happens in the body. The method is basically done by exposing to what you are afraid of and it will gradually loosen up the anxiety. This may involve working with emergency thoughts, memories, sounds and smells or other sensations that arouses anxiety. Relaxation exercises, breathing and acceptance techniques are reviewed. Homework is given between sessions.
The treatment concludes with a meeting of one to two weeks after the flight. Here is the evaluation and development of a program how to maintain what you have learned and achieved. In more severe cases I can accompany the client on the training flight. |