Category: MI Core Skills

This conversation about change has offered many examples of how to build confidence with clients. Today, we will explore both identifying and affirming strengths and reviewing past successes. When we spend time with our clients, we get to know them and learn about their experiences. We often learn about their...

This has been a great conversation on building confidence with our clients and numerous approaches have been discussed. And one experience clients can have is feeling like they are “failing” in their attempts to change and they can get very discouraged. One strategy to work with clients who feel this...

This series of blogs has been focusing on counseling with neutrality and not guiding the client in any one direction. The clinician is allowing the client to make their own decision even if the process brings up a great deal of tension for both clinician and client. One approach that...

I hope there have been some interesting and helpful posts along the way. I like to think of MI as a conversation about the possibility of change, integration, or adherence of a new behavior where we empower and support the client in creating the change they want in their lives....