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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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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...
The Ethics of Motivational Interviewing
Do you ever feel like Motivational Interviewing can border on manipulation?A while back, I received a text from a colleague about concerns over the use of MI. I immediately gave her a call, curious what she is hearing.Essentially, when it came down to it, the concern...
Motivational Interviewing with Veterans
I just got back from an amazing time at a conference put on by the Veterans Services of the Carolinas, an organization MI Center for Change has provided training for for over 5 years. It has been such a delight to work with such heart-felt, hard-working case managers...
Beware of “I Know”
When you are sitting with a client and you start to get excited because you think you have identified what the problem is and what is needed to solve it, BEWARE!“I know” comes up for me when I think I’ve figured out:What the dilemma is for a clientWhat they should do,...
What About When Our Clients Judge Us? How can Motivational Interviewing help?
People judge each other all the time. Judgment is about having an opinion, and we all have opinions!A key component to maintaining the spirit of MI is the ability to suspend our judgment about our clients’ choices so that we can better...
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!