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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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Can I Use Motivational Interviewing All of the Time?
I periodically get the question, “Do you use Motivational Interviewing all of the time?” Yes… and no. Let’s break it down.The simplest definition of MI, as cited in the Miller & Rollnick Motivational Interviewing book: Then here is a more thorough definition from...
Lock in Empathy!
What does empathy have to do with it? Motivational Interviewing is all about empathy! You can have empathy without Motivational Interviewing, but you can’t have Motivational Interviewing without empathy!I’m a parent, and as a practitioner and trainer in Motivational...
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...
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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!