Rapid resolution of flight anxiety in only 1-5 sessions
Therapy for Fear of Flying
Online in Massachusetts, Washington State, & Oregon
When a Fear of Flying Controls Your Choices
Your brain did exactly what it was supposed to do: it learned that flying feels dangerous and created a fear response to keep you safe. The problem is that the alarm system won’t turn off, so every time you book a flight or even think about flying, your body responds like you’re in real danger, even though you know rationally that you’re not.
You can read the statistics about how safe flying is, understand that turbulence is normal, know that your fear doesn’t make logical sense, and yet still feel your heart pounding at the thought of getting on a plane. Your nervous system is operating on a fear response it learned and hasn’t let go of.
Traditional therapy helps you understand why you’re afraid and gives you coping strategies. Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) helps your brain process and release the fear response entirely. Most people who work with me have already tried exposure therapy (ERP), breathing exercises, and mindfulness. But they are tired of managing fear and ready to resolve it.
Flight anxiety affects about 25 million adults in the U.S. For many people, it’s not just uncomfortable, it's career-limiting, relationship-straining, and life-shrinking. ART brings speed and completeness to resolving flight anxiety. In other words, I’m not teaching you how to white-knuckle your way through flights; I’m helping your brain eliminate the fear response entirely so that flying becomes unremarkable.
Most clients complete treatment in 1-5 sessions, and when I say “complete,” I mean you can book the flight and get on the plane without your nervous system treating it like a life-or-death situation.
There’s a gap between the life you want and the one fear of flying has left you with…
You turned down the promotion because it requires quarterly travel. The job you actually want, the conference that would expand your network, and the client meeting that could change your career trajectory all require flights that you spend weeks dreading. Your fear of flying has been making your career decisions for years.
Someone books a destination wedding six months out, and your stomach drops. You make and cancel the reservation three times. The week before, you barely sleep. You consider every possible excuse to avoid going. Sometimes you actually do bail at the last minute and spend the next year feeling guilty about missing something that mattered.
You’re at the gate, and your hands start shaking. You board, and your heart is racing before you even sit down. You take a Xanax just to make it tolerable, then feel foggy and exhausted when you land. Or you drink enough to numb the panic and arrive at your destination hungover and depleted.
Your partner wants to travel internationally for your anniversary, but you keep suggesting road trips instead. Your kids ask why you never fly anywhere when their friends’ families do. You missed your family’s Thanksgiving because it required a flight. Your extended family assumes you just don't care enough to show up, which couldn’t be further from the truth.
You vacation within driving distance, even though you’d rather see mountains or oceans that require flights. You’ve never seen the places you promised yourself you’d visit, even though you keep a list of faraway places you want to travel to. The world got smaller while you were trying to stay safe, and you’re tired of living in the radius your fear allows.
You’re successful, intelligent, and capable in every other area of your life, but you can’t get on a plane without feeling like you’re going to die. You know that your flight anxiety is irrational, but none of that knowledge touches the fear. You’re done letting your fear of flying make your decisions for you.
How Accelerated Resolution Therapy Resolves Fear of Flying
ART works with how your brain naturally processes and stores experiences. At some point, whether from a turbulent flight, hearing about a crash, or anxiety that emerged seemingly out of nowhere, your brain filed flying under “DANGER: THREAT TO SURVIVAL.” Now every time flying comes up, your brain pulls that file and activates your entire panic response.
ART helps your brain refile it properly.
The Neuroscience of Accelerated Resolution Therapy
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) directly addresses the fear and anxiety about flying at the neurological level, bypassing the need for months of talking about it.
ART uses eye movements similar to what happens naturally during REM sleep to help your brain reprocess the anxiety and fear response. Flying moves from the “DANGER” category to something more like “unremarkable form of transportation.”
The facts stay (you know you’ll be on a plane), but the fear response that has been dictating your decisions just stops activating.
The results of ART are real and concrete: You board the plane and your heart rate stays normal. Turbulence starts, and you sleep through it. The flight lands, and the event is just a matter of fact.
The best part is that these changes don’t happen because you’re trying harder or using skills. They happen because your brain has moved the thought of flying to the “just another experience” category, and your nervous system no longer sees flying as an active threat.
End Your Fear of Flying and Start Living
Through our work together, you’ll stop letting fear and anxiety about flying make your decisions. You’ll be able to choose the career opportunities, the trip, the life you want instead of the one your fear has left you with.
What changes after using ART for flight fear and anxiety…
The first thing people notice is physical: your chest isn’t tight when you think about flying, your heart rate stays normal when you book a flight, and your hands don’t shake at the gate. Your body finally gets the message that flying isn’t a threat.
When your nervous system stops treating flying as a survival situation, you get your decision-making back. The mental loops about worst-case scenarios quiet down, and suddenly, you have capacity for what matters instead of spending your energy managing fear.
At work:
You pursue roles based on growth potential and interest, not whether they require travel
The conference in Austin becomes an opportunity to learn and network, not a logistical nightmare to avoid
You can say yes to the client site visit that builds the relationship instead of delegating it to someone else
Business travel becomes part of your job, not the reason you can’t take the job
In your personal life:
You plan trips based on where you want to go, not how far you can drive
The honeymoon conversation is about choosing between Italy and Japan, not finding somewhere within driving distance
You book the family reunion flight and look forward to seeing everyone instead of dreading the getting-there part
Travel becomes about the destination and experience, not about surviving the flight
The logistics simplify:
Flying becomes a boring mode of transportation, like taking a bus or train
You work on the flight, catch up on podcasts, and sleep
Turbulence is mildly annoying, like hitting a pothole, not evidence of imminent death
You arrive at your destination ready and excited to be there
ART for flight anxiety is for you if you are someone who…
Needs to travel for work
Wants to travel for important life events or family functions (weddings, funerals, holiday gatherings, etc.)
Has a bucket list of faraway places you want to see
Has tried other approaches (exposure therapy, EMDR, flight courses, etc.) that haven’t brought the results you wanted
Is tired of managing the panic symptoms and wants real, long-term results without grueling exposure therapy or spending months in talk therapy
A 90-minute Accelerated Resolution Therapy session is $500.
ART sessions are $500 per session. Each session runs as long as needed to complete the protocol, typically 60-90 minutes. The average length of treatment is 1-3 sessions for flight anxiety, but it can take up to 5 sessions.
Total investment for most clients: $500-$1,500
ART is an investment in your freedom and well-being.
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Fly Without Fear
If you’re tired of letting fear of flying control your career, miss important events, or limit where you can go, let’s resolve it.
FAQs
Frequently asked questions
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Most people notice a significant reduction in fear during or immediately after the first session. Full resolution typically happens within 1-5 sessions. Some people resolve their fear of flying in a single session. I've had clients take cross-country flights shortly after their first appointment with no panic response. Others need 3-4 sessions to fully eliminate the fear. We work until flying no longer activates your nervous system.
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No. ART resolves the fear response in the session itself. Some people choose to book a test flight after treatment to confirm the fear is gone, but it’s not required as part of therapy.
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That’s common. Many people develop flight anxiety without an obvious reason. ART works with the fear response itself, regardless of origin.
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Normal nervousness (like you might feel about any travel logistics) might remain, but the overwhelming fear and panic response that has prevented you from flying in the past will be gone.
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Exposure therapy gradually desensitizes you to flying by exposing you to progressively more intense triggers, ie, pictures of planes, airport visits, eventually taking flights. This helps you build tolerance over time through repeated exposure. ART goes directly to how your brain has stored the fear response and resolves it at the source. With ART, you’re not building tolerance through repeated exposure, you’re eliminating the fear response. Most people complete ART treatment in a matter of days or weeks instead of the months exposure therapy typically requires.
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Both ART and EMDR use bilateral stimulation (eye movements) to help the brain reprocess experiences, but there are significant differences. EMDR requires you to verbally process traumatic experiences in detail and talk through your emotions and thoughts extensively during sessions. ART allows you to keep traumatic details private; you don’t have to describe it to me. ART also uses a specific technique called Voluntary Image Replacement where you actively choose new imagery, giving you more control over the reprocessing.
Sessions are typically shorter with ART (1-5 vs 6-12+ for EMDR), and many people find it less emotionally taxing because you’re not verbally reliving the experience.
heal the root cause in 1-5 sessions
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