Recommended book
Antony, M. M., & McCabe, R. E., (2005). Overcoming Animal and Insect Phobias: How to Conquer Fear of Dogs, Snakes, Rodents, Bees, Spiders, and More. New Harbinger.
The complete book is available as a PDF on Martin Antony's website for free. Go to https://martinantony.com/publications and click on "Out of Print" books. Here is a direct link that may work.
The book is also available on Amazon.
For a brief overview of the treatment strategy, see paged 20-22.
Table of Contents
1. About animal phobias
2. Where do animal phobias come from?
3. Developing a hierarchy
4. Preparing for treatment
5. Confronting your fear (exposure-based strategies)
6. Changing your thoughts
7. Staying well
8. Helping someone else with an animal phobia
Exercises
Chapter 2. Where do animal phobias come from?
Where did your phobia come from? (p. 28)
Chapter 3. Developing a hierarchy
List your feared situations (p. 44)
List the factors that influence your fear (p. 46)
Generate an exposure hierarchy (p. 47)
Chapter 4. Preparing for treatment
What materials do you need? (p. 60)
Chapter 5. Confronting your fear (exposure-based strategies)
Practice exposure to your feared animal (p. 89)
6. Changing your thoughts
Identify your anxious thoughts (p. 102)
Learn about your feared animal (p. 107)
Examine the evidence (p. 110)
Challenge catastrophic thinking (p. 113)
7. Staying well
Anticipate obstacles and create an action plan (p. 127)
Principles for getting the most out of exposure therapy (from Chapter 5)
Take steps at a pace that works for you
Plan practices in advance
Minimize surprises
Long exposures are the key to success
Schedule your practices close together in time
Eliminate safety behaviors
Practice in different situations and with different animals
Don't fight your fear
Protect yourself from real danger
For more information about exposure therapy, see: Exposure therapy
Lepidopterophobia (a fear of butterflies and moths)