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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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Using Motivational Interviewing for Self-Change
Using Motivational Interviewing on myself?! Isn’t it just a technique to use with clients? Certainly not! Alan Zuckoff has an entire book about it, Finding Your Way to Change. The gist is, we need to identify what we want to change, build connection to our WHY, and...
Playing Tug O’War with your clients? Drop the Rope!
I was recently talking with another MINTie (member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers) from Rochester, NY. She’s been in the helping professional field a LONG time. She said when she was teaching Motivational Interviewing in the 1990’s, people teased...
The Righting Reflex Machine
“I’ve become a Righting Reflex machine!” a recent training participant said recently. We are responding from our Righting Reflex when we respond by trying to fix problems in our clients lives. It comes from a good place (our desire to help!), but often...
More about horses & Motivational Interviewing?
If you haven’t read my message from last week about Motivational Interviewing and horse training, check it out here. Yep, I have one more favorite moment from the Monty Roberts horse video about guiding a wild mustang to accepting his first saddle and rider. It’s very...
What do Horses and Motivational Interviewing Have in Common?
Have you seen the Horse Whisperer video? Monty Roberts, “the horse whisperer,” is working with a wild mustang in a round pen, with the goal of guiding the wild horse from halter to rider in under 25 minutes. It's pretty awesome. It’s the opposite of traditional...
Stop Arguing for Change
You heard me. Stop arguing for the side of change with your clients. But wait, “Isn’t it my job to help clients change? I can’t stop championing change!” Let me break it down. Scenario: Your client is talking about something they want to change. They are ambivalent....
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!