Weekly Motivational
Interviewing Blog

In my MI and Financial Planning- Part 1 blog, I listed some examples of client ambivalence to illustrate how MI can be a good fit.  A financial advisor can use MI very skillfully in order to help their clients figure out what they need in order to move through their...

Motivational Interviewing and Financial Planning?  Humm…not a field you may have thought of where MI can be used. Typically, MI is discussed with mental health and social service providers, but, MI is applicable in any conversation where someone is ambivalent...

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...

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...

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...