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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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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,...
Affirmations shine a spotlight on a client’s strengths, efforts, and intentions.
In Motivational Interviewing, OARS skills are used to guide conversation. We are metaphorically ‘rowing’ toward change with our OARS! This is the second message in a 4-part series on OARS! Click here to read last week’s post on Open-ended questions! This week, we are...
Would you go boating without OARS?
I guess if you wanted the wind or the current to blow you in whatever direction nature intended! Why am I talking about boating and Motivational Interviewing? In Motivational Interviewing, OARS skills are used to guide conversation. We are metaphorically ‘rowing’...
Can one use Motivational Interviewing All of the Time?
I periodically get the question, “Do you use Motivational Interviewing all of the time?” Yes, and no. Let’s break it down. The simplest definition of MI, as cited in the Miller & Rollnick 3rd Edition book: Then here is a more thorough definition from the same...
3 Benefits to Reflective Listening
I was recently providing a Motivational Interviewing Zoom training to a group of peer wellness coaches from Tennessee. Folks were coming back into the main ‘room’ from virtual breakout rooms having completed complex reflections practice activity. One participant...
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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!