Motivational Interviewing - Foundational

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

Your Motivational Interviewing 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 Motivational Interviewing 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 interact directly with William Miller, Stephen Rollnick, or Theresa Moyers

• 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.

Enrollments

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