Time & lots of patience for sure. Remember how HUGE we are to a frightened little snake...it may help to handle them "under cover" of a hand towel for a while,
so they learn they are warm & safe with your scent & with you touching them, without having to see this scary "giant" hovering over them.
While snakes feel threatened when you try to "pet their head" (news flash, even dogs aren't crazy about that), once they relax when I handle mine, I make a point
of casually touching their heads as they crawl thru my hands. Same thing for tails, another "flash point". This way they usually do learn that we aren't a threat,
even if touching their more sensitive areas. BTW, they don't seem to mine a chin stroke, going front to back only (w/ direction of scales) but don't hurry this
process...we are over-coming their natural instincts where normally only a predator picks them up, and NOT for social reasons, much less help of any kind.
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