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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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How to gather info about difficult topics!
Here’s another tool for approaching “itchy topics” with clients using a tool from Motivational Interviewing. What’s an “itchy topic?” (Check out my first blog post on these here) An itchy topic is a hard-to-approach topic with clients! It kinda makes you or your...
How might YOU be contributing to client resistance?
The Motivational Interviewing term “Roll with Resistance” morphed into “Dancing with Discord” in the newest edition of the MI book. Why? Because it’s really, really important to not write off clients as “resistant.” Think about it. What causes resistance? Something...
Finding my keys and other things that need REFRAMING!
A word from MINT trainer Chris de Beer: Today, I wanted to talk a little bit about one of the most powerful tools that we have in our MI tool box, and that is reframing. What is a reframe? Reframing is a specific type of reflection in which you pull out what the...
Approaching “Itchy Topics” with Clients
What is an “Itchy Topic?” Something that makes you or your client uncomfortable, like you have an itch! Steven Rollnick, co-creator of Motivational Interviewing (MI), came up with the term “itchy topics” to refer to when we need to have a conversation with a client...
Releasing New Year’s Resolutions
One thing I have learned about studying behavioral change for decades is that change is NOT simple or easy. If change was as simple as making a resolution and sticking to it, I’d be out of a job (both as a therapist and a trainer of Motivational Interviewing!). ...
TWO Experts in the Room
In one of my previous MI trainings, I had a participant who shared a story that has always stuck with me. She was a nurse who was struggling with a certain medical issue that had been recommended for surgery. She was very reluctant to consider this option and when it...
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!