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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 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...
Setting Goals Clients Own
I can remember in my early days of social work how much my enthusiasm clouded my ability to set goals with clients. The main issues were that 1. I was setting their goals more than they were, and 2. the goals weren’t attainable!In retrospect, I can see how much my own...
What’s the relationship between holding clients accountable and Motivational Interviewing?
Last week, I wrote about how MI can be useful in talking with clients about ‘accountability’ to program rules (here’s the link!).Today, my focus is on client accountability to the goals clients set!I gotta break down the work accountable first. What does it mean to...
Is there space for accountability in MI?
A past training participant reached out to pick my brain about how keeping clients accountable fits (or doesn’t fit) with MI. She expressed frustration about clients trying to place the blame on us (providers) for what’s not working for them. This happens, doesn’t...
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!