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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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Who’s Problem Is It?
A kid, scissors, and a VERY short haircut Story Time!! I'm going to tell you a story about my feisty younger daughter. When she was 4 or 5 years old, I was in the kitchen doing dishes and she was playing by herself in the other room. She had been quiet for a while,...
Working with Someone who is Stuck in a Hole?
I was recently talking with a training participant who shared about his work with a client who is really struggling with depression and motivation. He said, “I'm just trying to get him out of that hole! I keep telling him what to do and cheering him along, it’s just...
You Already Have What It Takes!
You’ve heard a lot from Hillary about MI, time to bring in the voices of the MINT trainers joining the Bolter Consulting team! Hi! I’m Chris Miles, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). I think about...
The Voice Inside
Good Ol’ Shel Silverstein! This sweet little poem speaks so well to the spirit of Motivational Interviewing. Why do I talk so much about the spirit of MI? Because, it’s not MI without the spirit. Sometimes I think about the concept of ‘catching the spirit,’ like...
Keeping things focused with SUMMARIES!
This is the fourth message in a 4-part series on OARS skills! Click here to read the first three posts on Open-ended questions, Affirmations, and Reflections. This week we’re doing a deeper dive into the OARS tool of SUMMARIES! In Motivational Interviewing, OARS...
Wouldn’t it be nice if you had all the time in the world?
If we had all of the time in the world, we might go boating without OARS. But as helping professionals, we have limited time AND our goal is to work with people to support change. So we gotta have some tools to guide the conversation! In Motivational Interviewing,...
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!