Weekly Motivational
Interviewing Blog

I LOVE teaching advanced Motivational Interviewing courses. Helping people sink their teeth into the meat of MI is so satisfying. I hear participants share about the energy shift that happens when they are not efforting so much. Clients talk and share more. There is...

It’s a journey, for sure! I’ve trained a lot of people in Motivational Interviewing. I often hear participants say, “I know MI, I use it all the time.” And MI has been around a lotta years (since the early 1980’s!). Most of us have had exposure to MI skills training...

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) because I didn’t know which choice that person should make. This was a big decision, there were repercussions on both...

When you love someone who struggles with substance misuse, you often need a lot of support to stay sane and in your lane. That’s where Motivational Interviewing comes in. A MI trainer buddy of mine Kate Watson has a popular podcast and wrote a book called Only Trying...

We have another free motivational interviewing online training for ya! Dayna Guido was a professor of mine when I went through the UNC-Chapel Hill masters in social work program. She has been a mentor of mine and a good friend, and we LOVE to train together! We are...