Verbal First Aid and therapeutic hypnosis can benefit everyone as we naturally enter trance-like states. Clinicians need to understand how trance states work and can be used to facilitate healing or keep people sick. Specific trance phenomena can hold symptoms in place, so clinicians aim to shift patients' trances by creating a witness and changing trance-thoughts. Hypnosis techniques like rapport building, suggestion, storytelling and addressing the autonomic system can help with issues like addictions, medical problems, and dissociative states.