Instead, each individual has all the resources necessary for change already residing within him or her. The hypnotherapist helps the client awaken these latent potentials. She conveys options to the client which were formerly unperceived. In order to do this, the hypnotherapist uses a variety of techniques. She may dialogue with the unconscious, tell anecdotes and metaphors, stimulate memory recall, utilize age regression, help the client recall, reinterpret, or reparent the original childhood trauma, or even assist in changing the original birth experience.
Some esoteric hypnosis seeks to connect the client with past life events.
Few good hypnotherapists utilize only hypnosis in treatment. Many use insight-oriented and behavioral techniques as well. The problems treatable through hypnosis are equally diversified. Even forms of schizophrenia and multiple personality have been cured through hypnosis. The medical applications range from pain control and anaesthesia to the more generalized use of stimulating the overall healing process.