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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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Whose Problem Is It? My daughter, scissors, and a very short haircut.
A kid, scissors, and a VERY short haircutStory Time!!I’m going to tell you a story about my feisty youngest daughter. When she was 4 or 5 years old, I was in the kitchen doing dishes while she was playing by herself in the other room. She had been quiet for a while...
Why Ask Why? Why questions and Motivational Interviewing
When I talk about the evoking process of MI, which is essentially about helping a client connect in with their WHY CHANGE, sometimes a training participant raises their hand and says, “But in graduate school, I learned not to ask why questions.” There appear to be two...
5 Tips for working with the Precontemplative client!
The Precontemplative Conundrum!If you are like, “Precontem…what?” check out my blog post on Stages of Change here. In short, “precontemplation” refers to the stage of change when clients aren’t wanting to think or talk about change. They might even be arguing against...
Just what is the relationship between Stages of Change & Motivational Interviewing
Many people confuse the Stages of Change with Motivational Interviewing. They aren’t the same thing, but they work super nicely together. (Fun fact, they both came out around the same time in the early 1980’s!)The Stages of Change, also called the transtheoretical...
Let It Begin With Me
I went camping last weekend. We took a break from gearing up around the start of school, paying attention to social media, news, freaking out about the state of our country and world, thinking about work… I read a novel, sat around a campfire with friends and family,...
Underlying messages of Reflective Listening
Have you ever gone to a friend with a dilemma, and they in turn give you advice, or talk about their own experience with a similar dilemma?Maybe that advice or perspective was just what you needed. Or maybe, you really just needed the space to talk it out and be...
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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!