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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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Fix It or Feel It? The Fixing Reflex and Motivational Interviewing
A recent training participant shared a question she and her husband use when they are seeking support from one another about a topic. “Do you want me to help you fix it, or feel it?” they ask one another. Essentially, “Are you asking for my support by helping fix...
Motivational Interviewing Checkup…How Am I Doing?
We go to the doctor and dentist for checkups to stay healthy.I can launch a pretty good case that practicing Motivational Interviewing keeps us healthy as helping professionals…so what about a MI checkup?How are you doing with your Motivational Interviewing...
3 Questions Answered about Motivational Interviewing
3 Common questions about MI: Just what is MI? Why is it called MI? And why is it so important? What is MI? The 2023 definition of Motivational Interviewing is that "MI is a particular way of talking with people about change and growth to strengthen their own...
Vampire Spells and Curiosity via Motivational Interviewing
One night when I tucked my youngest daughter in, she just didn’t fall asleep. Time and time again, I walked by her bedroom and saw her laying in bed, wide awake.What on earth is going on? Maybe starting back to school has her keyed up?“You ok honey? Do you need...
Is MI manipulation? Not when it’s all about the Spirit!
I met with Dayna Guido recently for a planning session on our upcoming live webinar, the Interplay of Motivational Interviewing & Ethics. We sat in her beautiful home office, her puppy Kefi bounding around while we geeked out on Motivational Interviewing and...
A Little Bit of the Soul (the movie) of Motivational Interviewing
I recently rewatched the Disney movie Soul, the story of a middle school band teacher about to make his big music break when he falls into a hole and dies. (Don’t worry, I didn’t spoil anything there, it happens at the beginning).In the afterworld, he escapes the...
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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!