Providing information about the technical aspects of flying is important.  Flying in the Comfort Zone accomplishes this in Therapeutic Learning Format which is heavily illustrated with easy-to-learn and remember pictures.

Patients should learn how to label their anxiety on a scale. This is part of Flying in the Comfort Zone.

Education should be provided about how fear manifests itself in the body. This is provided in both our books and video.

Patients should learn how to deal with thoughts and images and contrast them with reality.  Flying in the Comfort Zone opens with lessons in these areas.

The program should teach relaxation and breathing techniques. Our program designed the relaxation techniques we teach to be used specifically in distracting environments like airplanes.

Appropriate humor should be used.  Flying in the comfort zone if full of humorous illustrations that teach a lesson.

Therapists should have adequate training. Flying in the Comfort Zone is developed and taught by a Ph.D. licensed (Wisconsin) psychologist.  He also holds commercial pilot and flight instructor qualifications in aviation.

Encourage patient's to take an active role.  This principle forms the fabric of our program.

Be clear, empathic and understanding.  Dr. Tomaro's 14 years of successful live seminars speaks directly to this point.

Conduct an escorted flight on an airline. Dr. Tomaro has logged hundreds of hours in the air with fearful flyers.  The Virtual Reality flight is as close as we can come to this in a video program.  It was designed from his experience in the air with fearful flyers.  It is currently the only product of its kind in the world.