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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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Do you have more or less empathy when you have ‘been there too’?
One day when I was driving to work, I heard a snippet from the podcast Hidden Brain on NPR. The research question addressed was, “Do we have more or less empathy when we have had the same or similar experience as another?” The answer surprised me. We tend to have...
Resistance Fortifies The Psychological Immune System
What an interesting way to look at it! Did you know that when someone is ambivalent about change, and you argue for change, you are likely to solidify their argument AGAINST change? Think about it! The more you defend something, the more invested and connected you...
What is Equipoise?!
The founders of Motivational Interviewing (William Miller and Stephen Rollnick) define MI as "A directive, client-centered, counseling style for eliciting behavior change by helping clients to explore and resolve ambivalence." When we first learn Motivational...
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...
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!