Psychology
fromPsychology Today
13 hours agoWhy Doing Nothing Can Feel Safer (Even When It Isn't)
Omission bias leads clinicians to avoid effective interventions like EMDR, causing greater harm from inaction than from careful, responsible action.
I am a diehard EMDR therapist, so when friends and family ask for therapist recommendations, I usually recommend they go to an EMDR therapist. But this brings me to a crucial, often overlooked truth: it can be a trap to get too caught up in the therapy models themselves-CBT, EMDR, IFS, DBT, ACT, or others. Clients usually search for therapists based on modality, sometimes even assuming that one model will "fix" them better than another, and miss what matters much more: Who delivers them.