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Hi, I’m Hillary Logan
LCSW, LCAS
Member, Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT)
At MI Center for Change, Motivational Interviewing is our passion. Motivational Interviewing will help you become more effective and efficient as you support clients’ change!
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Root Cause? MI is Interested in Root Motivation!
Many of us, as helping professionals, are trained to look for the root cause problem. We notice barriers, issues, problems, and our brains want to go toward identifying those and fixing those. In Motivational Interviewing, we aren’t looking for the root cause, we are...
What does it mean to be using Motivational Interviewing from the Inside Out?
When we are learning Motivational Interviewing, it can feel like we are trying to use skills that don’t feel organic to us. It can feel like we are trying to use MI from the outside in. Consider the metaphor of duck feet. When you see a duck gliding across a pond, it...
Wrestle with yourself so you don’t wrestle with your client!
With Motivational Interviewing, we often say, "We are dancing, not wrestling". Imagine the metaphor of wrestling with your client-- pushing, pulling, persuading, trying to make a change happen. Exhausting! But using Motivational Interviewing is like dancing. MI is...
What is Macro Motivational Interviewing?
Did you know that Motivational Interviewing is being applied to systems work? It’s called macro MI! One of the limitations of traditional approaches to Motivational Interviewing (MI) is the narrow focus on individual behavior change. Yet we know that an individual is...
Less Fixing, More Listening
What most folks need is a good listening to! But as helpers, we tend to want to jump in and fix. Motivational Interviewing calls this the Fixing Reflex- our own urge to give advice, information, or try to fix a problem for a client. Or, try to fix the client! But...
Considerations on how MI applies with family over the holidays
The holidays are nearly here. How can Motivational Interviewing help us with family relationships? What about friends? How many times are you talking with your kids, partner, friends or other family members and feel that itching need to give advice or persuade them to...
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Hi, I’m Hillary Logan
At MI Center for Change, Motivational Interviewing is our passion. Motivational Interviewing will help you become more effective and efficient as you support clients’ change!