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Tom Bunn L.C.S.W.

About

Therapist and retired airline captain Tom Bunn, L.C.S.W. has dedicated over 35 years advancing the treatment of flight phobia. His program is at https://www.fearofflying.com. He is the author of SOAR: The Breakthrough Treatment for Fear of Flying and of Panic Free: The 10-Day Program to End Panic, Anxiety and Claustrophobia, and most recently, Panic Free Pandemic Workbook: Exercises To Calm Pandemic-Related Fear, Anxiety, and Claustrophobia.

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Recent Posts
Don't Just Imagine Reality. Test It.
Anxious passengers can't accept not knowing. To fill the information vacuum, they make something up. A typical image is that the plane is falling out of the sky.
Managing Turbulence During Air Travel
Wearing a seat belt is all you need to do to be physically safe. To feel safe, you may need to change the "valence code" associated with turbulence from negative to positive
A Visual to Combat Fear of Flying

Deep in a tunnel, there is nothing to see. Intellectually, we know the exit will eventually come into view. But emotionally, It seems like the blackness will never end.

Deep in a tunnel, there is nothing to see. Intellectually, we know the exit will eventually come into view. But emotionally, It seems like the blackness will never end.

Coping With Turbulence When Flying

When flying, wear your seat belt. The only passengers who get hurt are those who refuse to wear seat belts.

When flying, wear your seat belt. The only passengers who get hurt are those who refuse to wear seat belts.

A Simple Exercise to Help You Calm Down

The 5-4-3-2-1 Exercise a quick way to dispel anxiety. It's a concentration exercises that, by occupying your mind, pushes anxiety-producing thoughts aside.

The 5-4-3-2-1 Exercise a quick way to dispel anxiety. It's a concentration exercises that, by occupying your mind, pushes anxiety-producing thoughts aside.

Misinformation About Fear of Flying

When a therapist offers aviation safety statistics as reassurance, an anxious client incorrectly thinks they can't be helped, or correctly thinks the therapist is clueless.

When a therapist offers aviation safety statistics as reassurance, an anxious client incorrectly thinks they can't be helped, or correctly thinks the therapist is clueless.

The Fear of Flying Tip That Went Viral

Flying is a lot more comfortable when you picture something holding your plane up. A solution to flight anxiety just went viral.

Flying is a lot more comfortable when you picture something holding your plane up. A solution to flight anxiety just went viral.

Should a Cup of Coffee Cause Panic?

So many of us lack good emotional down-regulation, the inability to easily calm down may seem normal.

So many of us lack good emotional down-regulation, the inability to easily calm down may seem normal.