Motivational Interviewing - Foundational

Learn to guide conversations that inspire change - with the developers of MI.

About the course

Start date
Starts 10 June 2025
Time
6 weeks | 10 hours
Who this course is for
Mental Health Professionals & Coaches
Accreditation
10 CE / CME

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a collaborative, evidence-based approach for strengthening a client’s own motivation and commitment to change. Instead of trying to convince clients to change, MI helps them explore their own reasons, build confidence, and move forward with greater clarity and autonomy.

Motivational Interviewing is especially useful when clients are unsure, stuck, reluctant to follow advice, or facing difficult decisions about change. Whether you work in mental health, addiction, healthcare, or social services, MI offers a flexible, evidence-based way to engage clients and help them move forward.

In this course, you’ll learn how to:

  • Use an effective alternative to trying to persuade clients to change

  • Respond when clients feel unsure, stuck, or ambivalent

  • Use questions and reflections to support change - even in emotionally charged moments

  • Let go of the pressure to make clients change

  • Support clients who doubt their ability to succeed

There are 10 CE/CME credits available for this course (see Learner Notification). Please visit our FAQS to review CE/CME details, course objectives, speaker/planner conflict of interest disclosure and more.

Motivational Interviewing - Foundational
Learn from the Founders of MI

This course is taught by the developers of Motivational Interviewing - William Miller and Stephen Rollnick - alongside internationally respected MI trainer and researcher Theresa Moyers.

  • William Miller, PhD is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico. He co-developed Motivational Interviewing and has authored over 600 publications, including some of the most widely cited texts in behavioral science.

  • Stephen Rollnick, PhD is Honorary Distinguished Professor at Cardiff University. As co-developer of MI, he has helped shape its global application across addiction, mental health, healthcare, and sport.

  • Theresa Moyers, PhD is a leading MI researcher and trainer, and Professor of Psychology at the University of New Mexico. Her work focuses on how clinicians build MI skill, and she is known for her engaging teaching style and deep clinical insight.

Together, they offer a rare opportunity to learn MI directly from the people who created and refined it—through step-by-step instruction, filmed demonstrations, and decades of real-world experience. See more about these experts here.

Bill Miller, Theresa Moyers and Stephen Rollnick teach Motivational Interviewing
What This Course Helps You Do

This course gives you a practical, skills-based framework to apply Motivational Interviewing in your everyday clinical work - especially when clients are unsure, stuck, or ambivalent to change.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Build a strong working alliance - even with hesitant or disengaged clients

  • Guide conversations by drawing out the client’s own reasons for change

  • Respond skillfully when motivation is unclear or uncertain

  • Recognize and respond to change talk in the moment

  • Support clients in developing realistic, self-directed plans for change

Bill Miller teaching
Your Learning Experience

This six-week online course combines expert instruction, real clinical examples, and interactive practice to help you build genuine confidence in using Motivational Interviewing.

Each week, you’ll engage with:

  • Focused video lessons that explain key MI concepts and techniques

  • Filmed demonstrations showing MI in action across diverse client scenarios

  • Animations and interactive quizzes to reinforce learning

  • Downloadable exercises and resources to support your clinical

  • A moderated discussion forum where you can ask questions, reflect on practice, and learn from leading MI experts

  • A curated library of readings and resources to help you deepen your understanding and apply MI flexibly.

This course is ideal for psychologists, therapists, social workers, counselors, nurses, doctors, peer workers, case managers, and coaches - anyone in a role where supporting motivation, behavior change, or client engagement is central to the work.

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