Should I make a New Year’s Resolution or not? That common phrase we hear at the beginning of the year that most of us dread. Change is uncomfortable so we procrastinate and ultimately end up in a cycle of ambivalence – wanting and not wanting incompatible things at the same time. So, WHAT does one […]
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, emphasizes autonomy and strategically keeps change on the horizon without injecting your own agenda? We know the language of […]
Your client who comes in weekly is stuck in ambivalence. HOW do you help them get out of the quicksand and have a different kind of conversation? One thing we teach in Motivational Interviewing is WHAT to reflect. Are you reflecting the ambivalence, or the vision of your client? How do you cherry pick the […]
You are reluctantly remembering your last session with a client who wanted to quit smoking and feeling guilty that it did not go the way you would have hoped. Your helper instinct kicked in and you were trying to have a conversation about the ramifications of his 2 pack per day habit of 20 years. […]
There’s no greater feeling as a practitioner when you hear your client arguing for change instead of you trying to convince them of change. I think I could quit smoking in the next 3 months I really want to lose 10 pounds Drinking is not the celebration I thought it once was So how do […]