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Lesley is a 28-year-old homemaker who has two young children. The children were taught to swim by their father but they were keen for their mother to join in on the fun too. Lesley, however, had a phobia about swimming pools. As a child, she was thrown in at the deep end but, as she couldn’t swim, she had to be pulled from the water – much to her shame and humiliation. Lesley never got over her aversion to swimming pools and even the smell of chlorine seemed to paralyse her with fear and nausea. She was terrified that she would not be able to cope if one of the children got into trouble and got upset just at the thought of taking the children to the local pool.

Thankfully, the TFT phobia cure (see chapter five) got rid of Lesley’s phobia about swimming pools and she was able to enjoy an outing to the pool with her children.