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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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Motivational Interviewing as a Way of Being
I was recently chatting with someone about Motivational Interviewing as a way of being. A way of being? I thought it was a skill set? An Evidence-Based Practice? Motivational Interviewing is actually all of the above. MI is a way of being with someone, AND a way of...
Motivational Interviewing with YOU!
I recently had the pleasure of being featured on the Abundance Practice podcast on the topic of using Motivational Interviewing to motivate yourSELF. I had such a great conversation with Allison Puryear. You can listen here! Motivational Interviewing has been around...
Baby Steps!
When I think about “Baby Steps,” I can’t help but recall Bill Murray in the movie What About Bob, when he has the goldfish around his neck in a jar and is shuffling down the street muttering to himself, “Baby steps to the market, baby steps…” At the end of a training...
What do Goldilocks and Motivational Interviewing have in common?
I had a training participant ask me recently, “When is confrontation appropriate? What about when a client is clearly in denial/stuck/not changing?” This is a very good question, the answer of which involves Goldilocks and the Three Bears. I’ll get to Goldilocks....
You Don’t Need to Know
I was recently working with someone who was at one of those “fork in the road” moments in their life. I was getting really worked up (in my head), concerned because I didn’t know which choice that person should make. This was a big decision, there were repercussions...
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...
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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!