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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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3 MI Tips to Support Change
YOU are in the business of helping people change! Yet sometimes you may inadvertently say things that contribute to client resistance to change. How does this happen? Let’s take a look! I invite you to ask yourself these questions: Do I listen more than I talk? Or...
“Spirit of Motivational Interviewing!?” What does that mean anyhow?
What if, Just for Today, you fully embodied the spirit of Motivational Interviewing?What does that mean anyhow? “Spirit of Motivational Interviewing!?” It actually clicked for me when I heard MI co-creator Steven Rollnick call it “attitude” rather than spirit.Yes, the...
Story Time! When Change Talk is Embedded in Sustain Talk…
OK, I obviously have some playful, kid parts inside of me. I was reading my youngest a bedtime story one night, and realized, “OH! Change Talk! And lots and lots of Sustain talk.”So let me back up and define Change Talk & Sustain Talk. In Motivational...
Clients have reasons for change, and reasons against change.
Motivational Interviewing brings us some specific skills that help us guide clients when they are stuck in ambivalence! Last week, I wrote about the importance of Change Talk. This week, I'm writing about what to do with it when we hear it! But the first task is to...
To Change or Not To Change, That is the Question!
It can drive us crazy, as helping professionals, to sit with clients as they vacillate between desire to change and staying stuck. Which are they? Stuck and complaining, or ready to change??Back and forth, back and forth. To change or not change?That is THE...
Listen Up! Free audio resources for MI
Y’all! Did you know there are now a bunch of podcasts on Motivational Interviewing?The explosion of podcasts has been hard to keep up with. Sometimes I go into deep dives into my favorite podcasts.Other times, I remember to listen to music, or be in silence and let my...
Are your clients stuck?
Let’s change that!
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!