MadMac, yes, I agree EFT is your best bet. I developed a crippling cougar phobia last October after I heard one nearby one night. It was taking over my thinking there for awhile.
I resisted doing EFT, because I didn't want to be not afraid of something dangerous. But eventually I got rational enough to brave doing the EFT.
EFT is strange. You won't think anything is happening, and if something shifts, you'll just think it happened by itself if you even notice it at all. That's how subtle and gentle it is.
So, I did the EFT and, you know, weeks later it occurred to me that I was walking out the door without fearfully scanning the trees, the roof and under the shed. It just sort of gently dissolves things.
One insight I had was that the cougar phobia was symbolic of other fears which were sort of bundled with it, and it was their "spokesperson," if you see what I mean.
I have also suffered from a vomiting phobia, though not as severe as yours, and mine was a fear of vomiting in my not-very-nurturing therapist's office. I would carry a plastic bag in my purse and want to sit by a waste basket, and obsess about whether I could get to a bathroom in time.
I had childhood abuse issues that felt like they were about to explode out of me, and I didn't feel safe enough with the therapist to talk about them, so I kind of shifted all that to the vomiting phobia, sort of like I shifted several scary things on to the cougar phobia.
To me, the vomiting thing was about having stuffed as many feelings as one mortal could stuff and knowing that they could erupt uncontrollably at any time if I wasn't very watchful and controlling.
Network Chiropractic gave me some good relief back then, while the therapist only made me worse. In addition, I learned from Network Chiropractic how to trust my body to work out these things in the privacy of my home, because our bodies really do know how to heal themselves.
Through Network I got the freedom to let myself make any noises or contortions that my body needed to make in order to shake off this dissonant energy I was stuffed with. I would likely be dead if I hadn't learned that.
So, don't judge your body; it knows what to do, and it's signalling you through the phobia that it wants to talk to you, I would imagine.
Also, if you want some of us to do surrogate EFT for you, we can.
All best wishes,
Megan