Sandra M. Pollino

Sandra M. Pollino has helped thousands conquer their fear of flying. She earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Saint Francis University, Pennsylvania, a master’s degree in counseling from the University of Akron, Ohio, and a doctorate degree in clinical psychology from California Southern University. She is a specialist in the area of fear of flying and the founder of Coaching for Fear of Flying, a clinic for fearful flyers. She maintains a private practice while working with fearful flyers and athletes, presenting workshops for corporations, sports teams and other organizations in South Carolina, Florida and Pennsylvania. She resides in York, Pennsylvania.

Flying Fear Free

Does the mere thought of flying cause you to experience shortness of breath, heart palpitations, nausea, vomiting, dry mouth, dizziness and shaking? Does it give you a panic attack? Have you lost out on a promotion or missed an important family function because you suffer from aerophobia or the fear of flying?

You are not alone. Oprah Winfrey, David Bowie, Jennifer Aniston, Billy Bob Thornton, Colin Farrell and more than twenty million other people are panicked when taking air travel. Studies have found that up to 40 percent of the population experience heightened anxiety when boarding an aircraft. Recent airline accidents and complicated security procedures only exacerbate fear. However, help is available. Sandra M. Pollino, MS.Ed., Psy. D., has successfully shown thousands how to overcome their apprehension and fear of flying. In Flying Fear Free: 7 Steps to Relieving Air Travel Anxiety (January 2012, New Horizon Press), Pollino uses her unique background as a counselor/psychotherapist, nurse and former flight attendant to provide a proven approach to conquering the stress and anxiety that affects fearful flyers.

Pollino explores and defines phobias associated with flight fear (claustrophobia, aerophobia, etc.) and educates readers about every aspect of the air travel industry. Then she takes the fearful flyer through seven steps using a cognitive behavior and holistic approach. Helpful exercises, checklists and techniques provide fearful flyers tools to overcome their flight anxiety. A holistic approach that uses aromatherapy, color therapy, music therapy and more works to cure flight fear on a psychological, physical, emotional and spiritual level. Pollino provides the tools for enabling the once apprehensive traveler a comfortable and fear free flight.

Flying Fear Free utilizes and instills important coping skills that other programs have left out and will successfully enable millions of fearful and tense air travelers to take control and overcome their fear of flying once and for all.

SUGGESTED INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

• How many people are fearful of flying?
• What steps can a passenger take in order to fly free of fear and more comfortably?
• How can a person identify a fear of flying?
• What can parents do to ease the fear of flying in their children?
• What are the techniques, exercises and procedures that will ease fear of flying?
• How can aromatherapy and color therapy help relax someone?
• How can someone set goals to fly free of fear?
• What makes Flying Fear Free stand out from other books on fear of flying?
• How are you specially qualified to work with fearful flyers?
• What would you tell individuals who live in the “What Ifs?” and obsess over their fear so that it interferes with their daily lives, families, jobs, vacations, events etc.?