by Hillary Logan, LCSW, LCAS | Mar 26, 2025 | Motivational Interviewing, Spirit of Motivational Interviewing
Reading Time: 5 minutes Motivational Interviewing and Financial Planning – Part 2 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...
by Hillary Logan, LCSW, LCAS | Mar 26, 2025 | Motivational Interviewing, Spirit of Motivational Interviewing
Reading Time: 4 minutes Motivational Interviewing and Financial Planning part 1 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...
by Hillary Logan, LCSW, LCAS | Mar 11, 2025 | Motivational Interviewing, Spirit of Motivational Interviewing
Reading Time: 5 minutes 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. ...
by Hillary Logan, LCSW, LCAS | Feb 25, 2025 | Motivational Interviewing, Spirit of Motivational Interviewing
Reading Time: 5 minutes 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...
by Hillary Logan, LCSW, LCAS | Feb 18, 2025 | Motivational Interviewing, Spirit of Motivational Interviewing
Reading Time: 4 minutes 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,...
by Hillary Logan, LCSW, LCAS | Jun 25, 2024 | Motivational Interviewing, Spirit of Motivational Interviewing
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Planning task of Motivational Interviewing and Brief Action Planning! There are four tasks in Miller & Rollnicks’ Motivational Interviewing: Engagement, Focusing, Evoking & Planning. The final task of Miller & Rollnicks’ MI,...