Affirmations

June 8, 2019

Keeping your Eye on the Horizon for Change

You are sitting across from a client who looks depressed, doesn’t have much energy and is not sure if their life is worth participating in. Sound familiar? Are they motivated or not? How do you unpack whatever motivation is there? If someone is alive and breathing in front of you there is some level of optimism […]

November 30, 2018

Accurate Affirmations Elicit the most Change Talk

We are trained as professionals to see and pay attention to what’s wrong and help with change. Unfortunately this way of being can actually make clients less likely to change. In the spirit of Motivational Interviewing we are instead paying close attention to what a client is striving for their strengths, efforts and values – […]