by Hillary Logan, LCSW, LCAS | Dec 16, 2025 | Motivational Interviewing, OARS Skills, The Change Process
Reading Time: 5 minutes It’s Not Your Job To Fix Anyone Many of you will spend time with family, extended family & friends over the holidays and my guess is that you will spend time with folks you love that also make decisions that you don’t always love… So just a...
by Hillary Logan, LCSW, LCAS | Nov 25, 2025 | Motivational Interviewing, OARS Skills, The Change Process
Reading Time: 4 minutes What is the best Motivational Interviewing training What is the best Motivational Interviewing training? The one that works best for you! (Yes, as a Motivational Interviewing trainer, I am going to lean into partnering with you and supporting...
by Hillary Logan, LCSW, LCAS | Nov 11, 2025 | Motivational Interviewing, OARS Skills, The Change Process
Reading Time: 5 minutes Motivational Interviewing with Veterans, Service Members & Military Connected Families For those of you in the U.S., I hope you had a wonderful Veterans Day holiday yesterday! In many ways, Veterans taught me that I needed Motivational...
by Hillary Logan, LCSW, LCAS | Oct 28, 2025 | Motivational Interviewing, OARS Skills, The Change Process
Reading Time: 4 minutes Motivational Interviewing in Documentation: Getting it ‘Write’ I am sure this piques the interest of supervisors and helping professionals alike! We are often asked by Motivational Interviewing learners, “How do I document that I used...
by Hillary Logan, LCSW, LCAS | May 8, 2023 | OARS Skills
Motivational Interviewing in Conversations with Friends and Family Last year, I wrote about applying the spirit and OARS skills to a conversation with my daughter around piercing her own belly button (OUCH!). I can’t tell you HOW many times training participants have...
by Hillary Logan, LCSW, LCAS | Feb 13, 2023 | Motivational Interviewing, OARS Skills
Summaries that Focus & Guide The Motivational Interviewing OARS deep dive continues! This is the fourth and final in my OARS series as it relates to CHANGE TALK in Motivational Interviewing. In Motivational Interviewing, OARS stand for Open-ended questions,...