This is one of the therapeutic techniques that professionals use to help traumatised people. It is important to add that other processing methods are also used, such as cognitive processing and emotional processing, as well as other techniques, like emotional regulation, for instance. However, trauma processing involves a systematic approach to desensitising a patient. Usually, a response activation and counter-conditioning model is followed along with a careful deconstruction of disparity within the patients emotional and reality states. In other words, patients are trained to help themselves by understanding when they feel an emotion that is a result of their traumatised minds and when it is not, the idea being that their trigger points will become less anxiety-inducing.