You clearly have more and more recent experience in such treatments than I do.
I would suggest, however, that transferring a memory/response dynamic from emotional to logical is one way to neuter, take the wind out of the sails of the pain from a historic event.
In terms of PERCEPTION—many experts would insist that PERCEPTION = REALITY in most practical terms.
While what you are saying is true in a person’s life functionality, a suppressed or ignored unresolved emotion often manifests as a severe illness.
For example, this is the reason that most people with PTSD also have back pain.
You wouldn’t believe me if I shared how I can compare the various treatment modalities. The actual stored memory which has the emotion of the trauma attached is physical to my perception. I’m able to scan peoples stored memories since conception and identify the perceptual programming event causing the problem without the patient saying one word. I do not touch them either. Consciousness itself is physical to me.