Re-experiencing of incidents provides an opportunity for discussing how one can be freed from fixed responses of the past. One can always go and experience things from different viewpoints. And one can always look for the lesson in any experience. The client can with great benefit do that in the present whenever she is in a somewhat stressful situation. Or she can do it lightly with parts of her past that are available to her.
People can reframe themselves.
For example, they can take any situation and find what is positive about it, what makes it a learning experience. They can get used to the idea that any apparently limiting situation opens the door to new possibilities. Perceptual processing can be done with excellent benefit by oneself. Changing of perceptual distinctions or the swish pattern are wonderful tools that a person can use anytime. She might learn in session that she feels insecure when she has a small, colorless picture of herself, and she feels bold and adventurous when she has a big, colorful picture of herself.