Weekly Motivational
Interviewing Blog

It’s a journey, for sure! I’ve trained a lot of people in Motivational Interviewing. I often hear participants say, “I know MI, I use it all the time.” And MI has been around a lotta years (since the early 1980’s!). Most of us have had exposure to MI skills training...

I 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) because I didn’t know which choice that person should make. This was a big decision, there were repercussions on both...

When you love someone who struggles with substance misuse, you often need a lot of support to stay sane and in your lane. That’s where Motivational Interviewing comes in. A MI trainer buddy of mine Kate Watson has a popular podcast and wrote a book called Only Trying...

We have another free motivational interviewing online training for ya! Dayna Guido was a professor of mine when I went through the UNC-Chapel Hill masters in social work program. She has been a mentor of mine and a good friend, and we LOVE to train together! We are...

OARS deep dive time!  Ready for some more free motivational interviewing training info? This is the third in my OARS series as it relates to CHANGE TALK.  First, I talked about Open-ended questions, then Affirmations. Today, it’s all about REFLECTIONS that go...