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What Qualities make the MOST Effective Helping Professionals?
Have you ever wondered what the spark is that shifts our clients towards change after a visit? Is it the professional’s training, level of education or years of experience? It turns out that education, experience and [...]
Suspending Advice
If you could be a fly on the wall, what would you like to hear your client reveal to their friends about your session with them? Do you want to be seen as helpful and empathetic [...]
Finding your balance with COVID Anxiety
How do we use our values to navigate our anxiety in the midst of the crisis? If our anxiety dial is stuck on high it can render us powerless to do what we need to do [...]
Doing the Most Good in Social Distancing
Our world is rapidly changing, and people are feeling vulnerable, scarred and wondering about the future. What is the most good we can do in the little time that we have with clients, especially with the [...]
Getting to THE WHY
How do you get to the why of someone's motivation for change? WHY is a tricky word since asking why can be shaming depending on how you frame it. Rather than asking why do you do [...]
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 [...]
Are you Responding in a Helpful way?
Do you ever wake up in the morning with a heavy responsibility of solving the world's problems? Clients comes to you in distress and are in want of help, answers, and direction or are they? What [...]
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 [...]
Is Learning Motivational Interviewing Worth It?
You've heard about Motivational Interviewing (MI) - that it's evidence based and when practitioners use it they have much better outcomes BUT is it worth it? Is it worth your time to take workshops, receive coaching [...]
Finding Your Way to Change
Your clients come to you with multiple types of ambivalence and seek help for how to see their way through to change. How do you help them in a way that shows empathy with their situation, [...]
Are you Creating Engagement?
When an old or new client walks into your office, is engagement or re-engagement really necessary? Do you need to create an atmosphere of engagement every time you see a client? Stephen Rollnick, co-author and founder [...]
Do you really know what the FOCUS Is?
A client makes an appointment to come see you due to drinking, depression, or some other desired change and through a brief conversation on the phone you think you know what their focus is. BUT is [...]
