Motivational Interviewing as a Way of Being
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was recently chatting with someone about Motivational Interviewing as a way of being. A way of being? I thought it was a skill set? An Evidence-Based Practice? Motivational Interviewing is actually all of the above. MI is a way of being with...
Motivational Interviewing with YOU!
Reading Time: < 1 minutesI recently had the pleasure of being featured on the Abundance Practice podcast on the topic of using Motivational Interviewing to motivate yourSELF. I had such a great conversation with Allison Puryear. You can listen here! Motivational...
What do Goldilocks and Motivational Interviewing have in common?
Reading Time: 2 minutesI had a training participant ask me recently, “When is confrontation appropriate? What about when a client is clearly in denial/stuck/not changing?” This is a very good question, the answer of which involves Goldilocks and the Three Bears. I’ll...
You Don’t Need to Know
Reading Time: < 1 minutesI was recently working with someone who was at one of those “fork in the road” moments in their life. I was getting really worked up (in my head), concerned because I didn’t know which choice that person should make. This was a big...
Using Motivational Interviewing for Self-Change
Reading Time: < 1 minutesUsing Motivational Interviewing on myself?! Isn’t it just a technique to use with clients? Certainly not! Alan Zuckoff has an entire book about it, Finding Your Way to Change. The gist is, we need to identify what we want to change, build...
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