Consult Online: MI Change Cre8tors!
An Online MI Learning Community for Helpers Working with Ambivalent Clients
This monthly online Motivational Interviewing (MI) Learning Community! This is a small group setting conducted using the collaborative "Spirit" of MI for helpers. Learn how to get your ambivalent client to build their own arguments for change. Join the group in the comfort of your own office or home!
This consultation group is for providers who have received some MI training (at least one hour of training) and who have been practicing MI in applied settings:
• Counselors
• Psychologists
• Social Workers
• Physicians
• Nurses
• Health Coaches
• Clinical Research Staff
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Behavior Specialists
• Students
• Fellows/Residents
• Peer Support Staff
• Pastoral Counselors
Days: 2nd Friday of each month
(Friday, March 13, 2020)
Time: 9:30am to 11:00am EST
Cost: $34.99 USD per monthly group session slot. Stay in the group as for as long as you want. One free miss per year. Few slots.
Each month, I will give each participant a receipt for each transaction (can also be used as a business expense receipt).
Group members will have the opportunity to:
• Discuss ways to use MI to get “unstuck” with motivating ambivalent or “resistant” clients to change (and particularly with challenging cases).
• Practice identifying and responding to change talk (language about changing).
• Sharpen skills to effectively respond to sustain talk (language about not changing) with clients who engage in power struggles.
• Smooth out the nuances of MI methods.
• Explore how to blend MI with other interventions/therapies (i.e., cognitive behavior therapy, mindfulness, interpersonal therapy, health coaching, psychodynamic therapy, etc.).
• Help build the agenda for each group session, including discussion of other topics areas in MI delivery (i.e., MI in group therapy/support groups, measurement of MI fidelity, MI supervision, etc.)
Ready to sign up? Let me know and I will send you a consultation consent, meeting dates, log-on information, and other details.
For more information or to register, email or call Angela Bethea-Walsh:
O: 404-654-3614
E: angela.bethea@gmail.com
Group Facilitator:
Angela R. Bethea-Walsh, Ph.D., is a Licensed Psychologist in Atlanta, Georgia. She owns a private practice with clinical interests in evidence-based, culturally-sensitive interventions to treat individuals with substance use disorders, depression, anxiety, behavioral health concerns, chronic medical illness, trauma exposure, and/or group identity development concerns (racial, ethnic, gender, sexual, acculturation).
Dr. Bethea-Walsh also conducts substance use evaluations and evaluations for medical interventions (i.e., bariatric surgery, infertility treatment, third party reproduction including gestational surrogacy).
She is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers, an international organization of trainers in Motivational Interviewing (MI) started in 1997 by a small group of trainers trained by William R. Miller, Ph.D., and Stephen Rollnick, Ph.D.
