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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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Ask-Offer-Ask Motivational Interviewing example in a convo with my teen when she pierced her bellybutton with a safety pin!
Ask-Offer-Ask is a Motivational Interviewing tool that is used when exchanging information or advice. The goal is to support client choice and autonomy as we first evoke their knowledge and thoughts on something before imparting ours! So, when my daughter pierced her...
MI Tip: Empathy in Motivational Interviewing
In a training I provided recently, participants got into a deep discussion on what empathy is and how it fits in with Motivational Interviewing (MI). Empathy is the ability to understand, and even partially experience, the feelings of another. And Motivational...
The Planning task of Motivational Interviewing and Brief Action Planning!
There are four tasks in Miller & Rollnicks’ Motivational Interviewing: Engagement, Focusing, Evoking & Planning. The final task of Miller & Rollnicks’ MI, planning, is all about how our client is going to accomplish their desired change. Moving into...
When to use (and not use) Motivational Interviewing
As Motivational Interviewers, we are not using Motivational Interviewing to get someone to do what we want them to do. Getting someone else to do what we want them to do is manipulation. Motivational Interviewing is designed to support someone to move towards...
A RULE of Motivational Interviewing
Are you familiar with the RULE acronym in Motivational Interviewing? RULE is sometimes referred to as the “guiding principles” of Motivational Interviewing. The RULE Motivational Interviewing acronym is an oldie but goody! And when I say oldie, it’s because...
Ambivalence is normal… but did you know it can be a strength?
Years ago I ran Motivational Interviewing groups for folks with substance misuse. I distinctly remember a participant's response in one particular group, when we were talking about ambivalence (and normalizing ambivalence about substances). I wrote the word...
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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!