Rédigé par Alex Gervash, pilote professionnel (31 ans d'expérience) et spécialiste de la peur de l'avion (18 ans d'expérience, plus de 16 000 cas traités)
Sa peur de l'avion a commencé dans un bus quand il avait 5 ans : coincé, seul, à la recherche de sa maman.
He was 5 years old. His mom traveled by bus to work. One day, he went home alone to get a forgotten toy.
He knew mom was on the bus. He got on, looking for her. But she wasn't there.
Before he could get off, the bus doors closed and it drove away from the stop. He panicked. Alone. Trapped. No mom. No safety.
Today, as an adult, he has severe fear of flying.
Why? Because to his nervous system, airplane = bus.
Both are enclosed vehicles you can't exit at will. Both involve being separated from your attachment figure. Both involve trusting the driver/pilot with your safety.
His conscious mind knows the difference between a bus and a plane. But his amygdala doesn't care about logic.
His fear of flying has nothing to do with aviation safety. It's a 5-year-old's terror of abandonment, still echoing in his nervous system 30 years later.
The plane isn't the problem. The memory is.
En bref
Sa peur de l'avion a commencé dans un bus quand il avait 5 ans : coincé, seul, à la recherche de sa maman.
Pilote professionnel (31 ans d'expérience dans l'aviation)
Formée en psychologie et en thérapie des traumatismes (EMDR, Somatic Experiencing)
Fondateur de phobia.aero et de l'application SkyGuru
Drawing on his 31-year career as a commercial pilot and 18 years of psychology expertise, Alex Gervash provides a rare fusion of cockpit knowledge and trauma therapy to help passengers overcome aviation anxiety. Having guided over 16,000 individuals through panic attacks on planes and specific triggers like landing fear, Alex specializes in regulating the autonomic nervous system to restore flight comfort. His profound understanding of flight panic led to the creation of the SkyGuru app, which currently supports more than 200,000 users in navigating the psychological challenges of air travel.
Spécialiste en : peur de l'avion, traitement de l'aérophobie, spécialiste de l'anxiété liée aux vols, thérapie contre la peur des turbulences, crises de panique en avion, aviophobie, phobie de l'avion, accompagnement des passagers anxieux, anxiété au décollage, peur de l'atterrissage, traitement de la phobie de l'avion. Traitement fondé sur des données scientifiques utilisant l'approche « Somatic Experiencing », la thérapie EMDR, la régulation polyvagale, la régulation du système nerveux autonome et une prise en charge tenant compte des traumatismes.
