Motivational Interviewing

Motivational Interviewing is especially useful when clients are interested in change, but are having difficulty moving forward. This is a way of exploring our hesitance and stumbling blocks to make lasting change more likely.

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a collaborative, empowering approach that helps you tap into your own motivation for positive change. Through open, supportive conversations, MI helps you explore your goals, overcome challenges, and build the confidence to take meaningful steps toward the life you want.

Utilizing motivational interviewing, which is a directive client-centered counseling style, in tandem with CBT has demonstrated to bring about change and growth in patients in a rapid and efficient manner. By going through the stages of change with patients, it can help them to see where they may be stuck in ambivalence and inspire them to move in a positive direction of behavior change.

My first foray into addiction counseling included training in Motivational Interviewing. Since that time, I have utilized that model to work with clients and found it to be exceedingly helpful with all types of clients. I have regularly engaged in workshops and training focused on Motivational Interviewing because of the success I have found in utilizing this approach.

Motivational interviewing is a counselling method that involves enhancing a client's motivation to change. Using 4 concepts: resist the righting reflex, understand the client's own motivations, listen with empathy, and empower the client.

While using Motivation Interviewing, I focus on exploring and resolving ambivalence towards change. Through a collaborative process, I help individuals identify their own reasons for change and work towards their goals. Whether dealing with addiction, mental health or other life challenges, Motivation Interviewing can be a powerful tool to promote lasting change and personal growth.

I use open-ended questions, affirmations, and reflective statements to elicit and enhance the client's own insights. By fostering a supportive and empowering environment, Motivational Interviewing encourages autonomy, self-efficacy, and a sense of ownership over the change process.

Meeting people where they are

Motivational interviewing is a powerful tool to help you make decisions, identify goals, and make lasting changes in your life. This technique empowers you to understand and then take steps towards what you want.

Extensive MI training

I love using motivational interviewing! I strongly believe that you possess wonderful resilient qualities that can assist in empowering you to overcome and achieve your therapeutic goals. You are the expert of your own story and I am here to help you discover new meanings and point of views. I have used this therapy when working with all types of people because I believe that every human deserves to feel loved and empowered.

I have specific training in using motivational interviewing and use it often during sessions.

I have completed two 21 hour training courses on integrating the approach of motivational interviewing in counseling approach. Motivational Interviewing is a counseling approach that is client-centered (you are the expert), counselor directed (I make observations and help increase awareness) focused on resolving inner conflict regarding change. This approach focuses on empowering clients to find their own meaning for, desire to, and capacity for change.

MI is a therapeutic method that teaches therapists about actively and empathetically ensuring clients feel heard. In session, expect to see me listen attentively, ask questions that invite you to tell me more, and to leave after the session feeling heard.

Motivational Interviewing is a client-centered and targeted approach to therapy. It provides a direction for therapy that is rooted in your value system. You and I will work together as a team to uncover your goals, and explore how to leverage your intrinsic strengths to meet those goals. Motivational Interviewing is at the heart of my training both as a social worker and an addictions professional.

Wrestling with a big decision? Feeling pulled in opposite directions as one part wants to make a change while the other doesn't? Thinking of leaving your job, changing careers, or starting a company? Contemplating whether to smoke less weed or cigarettes? Through Motivational Interviewing, we'll work through ambivalence so you're no longer stuck or conflicted. We'll explore your reasons for change, problem solve barriers, and set you up for success.

Motivational Interviewing is exactly what it sounds like - it's a way of asking questions that increases your likelihood for positive change. MI uses a core assumption from restorative practices: you already have everything needed for positive change. The idea is that this method of questioning elicits reasons for change that you've already been considering and simply gets you thinking about them and talking about them more, creating a plan, and then problem-solving identified obstacles .

I utilize this approach with all change processes. The way society teaches us to think about change is misleading and can impede our ability to make change in our Iives. This approach helps fix this misconception - inciting change.

Feeling stuck, confused, or unsure "what's next?" after a major personal or professional milestone? Or has a recent setback got you wondering where to go from here? One or two sessions of motivational interviewing (MI) can be an affirming, nonjudgmental way to explore your options and gain some clarity. We'll talk about how your values and choices fit together and figure out what's holding you back from change. MI works either as a standalone treatment or to help clarify your therapy goals.