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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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Motivational Interviewing Training Online FREE, Plus 3 Tips Moving from Wrestling to Dancing with Your Clients
Join our newsletter to never miss our Motivational Interviewing Training Online Free!I have more free motivational interviewing online resources for ya! Today, I’m sharing a free motivational interviewing download called Moving from Wrestling to Dancing.When we are...
Playing Tug O’War with your clients?
Do you ever feel like you are in a Tug O’War with a client about change?Think about it. When YOU have played the actual Tug of War game, with a rope cutting into your hands, feet dug in, leaning back, trying to avoid getting pulled over or losing ground… What is your...
Stop Arguing for Change
You heard me. Stop arguing for change with your clients. But wait, “Isn’t it my job to help clients change? I can’t stop championing change!”Sometimes I think about ambivalence being a delicate flame, like when you are starting a campfire when it’s damp outside, your...
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...
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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!