How the emetophobia-free programme was developed
Channel: Emetophobia-Free
Date: 2022-10-21

Rob was already a practicing therapist when he recognised the following about Emetophobes;

Emetophobes are, generally speaking, very bright, driven people.  This is due to the fact that being obsessive requires a certain level of intelligence and commitment.
Emetophobes are perfectionists and black and white thinkers.
Emetophobes tend to brood and ruminate a lot.
The vast majority of Emetophobes are females.
So it was unsurprising when, by default, there was a large number of emetophobes in the university town of Cambridge, where Rob had already been practicing for thirty years.

Rob remembers being one of (if not the first) practitioners in the UK to advertise his success and experience at treating emetophobes and that the term ‘emetophobia’ was hardly used, least of all by other therapists.   Due to the nature of the therapy that Rob was already practicing which was loosely based on a positive psychology programme, it was second nature to mould that programme into The Thrive Programme, and then to tailor that specifically to the needs of emetophobes. In the early days, prior to synthesis of The Thrive Programme, Rob had colleagues who were already practicing his brand of positive psychology and therapy, and it was with their successful efforts in treating clients, that the first symptom specific manual was created, aimed at smoking cessation.

Rob learned early on that emetophobes desire for control caused them to skip through the initial, essential chapters of the manual, to find the ‘cure’.  Which of course, was ineffective as the early chapters are crucial to understanding how the programme, and the individual’s thinking, work.  This lead Rob to create the emetophobia workbook which meant that every single chapter within the book was essential and related directly to emetophobia.

Emetophobia sufferers were undertaking ‘The Rob Kelly Method’ the precursor to The Thrive Programme, before the first draft of the book had been considered.  Hundreds of emetophobes had already cured their emetophobia using the techniques described, before an emetophobia-specific book had been published.

The success of the programme Rob accredits to the hard work of his colleagues who are numerous, and who see and successfully treat hundreds of emetophobes – which in his own words explains why the programme is so successful.  At a guess Rob has only taken 10% of the total emetophobes through the programme himself, the other 90% have been his programme coaches.  Arguably this emphasises the accessibility  of the programme, as if he, the author, only accounts for 10% of the success, the majority belongs to those who have interpreted and then taught the programme to clients.

Rob’s commitment to helping those with emetophobia overcome their symptoms stems from the fact that those with thought related disorders have historically been deemed ‘difficult’ to help.   This is due to a combination of low self esteem and very high desire for control. Typically, these are the clients that suffer the most from their thinking styles.

The success of the programme is evidenced not by a single client’s success, but by the overwhelming number of testimonials available on the website.  The most evidential however is that of Mary aged 83, who after 70+ years of emetophobia and all the types of therapy you can think of, rid herself of her emetophobia using the manual and then had a brief follow up session with Rob to tweak some perfectionist habits!

A new version of the emetophobia manual is coming out later this year, and has been informed by data and statistics provided by clients before, during and after completing the programme.  Such statistics have informed Thrive HQ of areas in which the manual can be improved and tweaked in order to make the Thrive Journey as impactful as possible for soon-to-be ex-emetophobia sufferers.

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