COACHING YOUR CLIENTS’ COGNITIVE BIASES

In contrast to the cognitive distortions which are always inadequate and which inevitably distort things, the cognitive biases are frequently quite useful. When useful, they essentially offer a short-cut in thinking. As a heuristic that is accurate and/or useful most of the time, these biases will move you forward. These patterns become problematic when you use them in a non- thinking way, when you simply assumes they are always useful or effective. That’s when they become the source of problems, blind-spots, and false-to-fact conclusions.