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Date: Friday, February 27 and March 6, 2026

Time:  9 a.m. - Noon ET

Program Cost: $140

Delivery: Synchronous Virtual Classroom via Zoom

Motivational Interviewing is an evidence-based and person-centered counseling technique for eliciting and supporting behavioral change that is steeped in the Humanistic approach of Carl Rogers. As our systems of care become increasingly recovery oriented, practitioners need tools for eliciting individuals’ own motivation in planning and implementing their own recovery. In addition, in many counseling environments, clients enter by mandate or medical need and are ambivalent about change. This client-centered approach stands in contrast to more traditional and ineffective confrontational methods that pathologize client resistance. Motivational Interviewing approaches resistance and ambivalence with respect, warmth, and curiosity, and this leads to better outcomes.

Using a combination of lecture, discussion, role play and video examples, this two-day program will provide participants with some of the building blocks of Motivational Interviewing for use in practice.

As a person-centered and evidence driven technique, Motivational Interviewing is inherently inclusive of diverse cultures and belief systems.  In addition, teaching examples will include discussion of counselor biases and the potential impact of these on the behavior change process.

Students will role play elements of a Motivational Interviewing session and watch a video of William Miller applying these techniques

This workshop is appropriate for all levels of practitioners in varied practice settings.

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this session participants will learn:

1. The qualities of Motivational Interviewing
2. The 4 Principals of Motivational Interviewing
3. About client ambivalence and best practices to work with ambivalence
4. Counselor behaviors that increase or decrease client resistance
5. How to recognize Change Talk
6. Techniques to elicit and respond to Change Talk

Instructor: 
 

Ruth Conviser, M.S.S., L.C.S.W., founded Growth Solutions Counseling in 2008 and specializes in people with anxiety and OCD as well as helping couples through the Gottman Method. She is a graduate of the Â鶹AV School of Social Work and Social Research (GSSWSR) at Â鶹AV, has a Diplomate in CBT from the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and trained is in Gottman Couples Therapy.

Cost | CEUs

Program Cost: $140

CEUs: 6

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