Motivational Interviewing
Taking responsibility for your choices.
Motivational interviewing is a technique in which I become your helper in the change process and express acceptance of you. It is a way to interact with substance-using clients, not merely as an addition to other therapeutic approaches, and a style of counselling that can help resolve the ambivalence that prevents you from realizing your personal goals. Motivational interviewing builds on Carl Rogers' optimistic and humanistic theories about people's capabilities for exercising free choice and changing through a process of self-actualization. My role in motivational interviewing is directive, with a goal of eliciting self-motivational statements and behavioural change from you in addition to presenting your own discrepancies to enhance motivation for positive change. Working on your decisional balance to empower you toward positive change.