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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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Motivational Interviewing to Save Time
New learners often say, “But I don’t have time to use Motivational Interviewing!” They say this because there is often a fear that slowing down to engage and deeply listen to our clients will equate to wasted time accomplishing goals! Yet Motivational Interviewing was...
Ask Why Change!
Why not ask why? So often when we meet a client, “Nice to meet you, what would you like to change?” We move right to a plan for how to get them there. We skip the why change! We move right from focusing to planning. Motivational Interviewing’s heart lies in the...
Where your focus goes, energy flows!
"Where your focus goes, energy flows!" What a great phrase to describe a part of what we are doing in Motivational Interviewing. A training participant shared this recently, and I love it! As a motivational interviewer, I want to pay particular attention to what I'm...
Language & Focus Matters in Motivational Interviewing
Whether you work directly in nutrition and fitness or not, nearly ALL of our clients will bring up diet, food, nutrition, and exercise at some point. And we know that how we respond matters! Do we inadvertently reinforce diet culture messages, or accidentally bring...
Roots of Change: Creating Change Plans with Motivational Interviewing
Sometimes I get asked, “I make change plans with my clients, and then they don’t follow through. Why aren't they following the plans we created?” I’m going to tell a side story about planting a tree in my yard. I am a ‘quick start’ type of personality. I see a...
Do You Use Motivational Interviewing All of the Time?
“Can I use Motivational Interviewing all of the time?” I hear this question a lot as a Motivational Interviewing trainer. My short answer is no, we don’t want to use Motivational Interviewing all of the time. But I’m going to have to break it down a bit more 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!