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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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Ted Lasso has a lesson for us! Ted and Motivational Interviewing: Relationship over Outcome
I invite you to think about a sports metaphor for a moment. If you are a coach, and your focus is totally on the outcomes of scoring and winning, what do your relationships look like with your athletes? And if you are relationally focused? Ted Lasso has taught us a...
Sympathy is Different Than Empathy: Empathy & Motivational Interviewing
In Motivational Interviewing, we often talk about the importance of Empathy, especially when it comes to engagement with clients, but we don’t focus on Sympathy.Why?Because Sympathy is different from Empathy! People often think they are the same and use them...
Applying skills of Motivational Interviewing in Conversations with Friends and Family
Last week, I wrote about applying the spirit and OARS skills to a conversation with my daughter around piercing her own belly button (OUCH!). I can’t tell you HOW many times training participants have asked me, “Do you teach this stuff to the layperson, because my...
My daughter pierced her own belly button. Using Motivational Interviewing to engage in meaningful conversation.
So… My oldest daughter got on a group chat with a couple other kids one evening recently, and they pierced their belly buttons together. She timidly and excitedly showed me her piercing later that night, seeking my approval. (I’d wondered why she rushed through the...
Sometimes Figuring Out Our Client’s Target For Change Isn’t Easy! Target Behaviors in Motivational Interviewing
There are four processes in Motivational Interviewing: 1. Engaging is about establishing rapport, connecting, ensuring that your client feels heard and understood.2. Focusing is about determining the target behavior, what is the topic of change. 3. Evoking process is...
Let Me Clear My Throat! Ambivalence and Motivational Interviewing
(If DJ Cool’s Let Me Clear My Throat song just popped into YOUR head, welcome to my brain.)It has come to my attention, via my kind and patient husband, that I clear my throat excessively every morning. First, I figured it was allergies. So I restarted my allergy...
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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!