Lars Forsberg, Ph.D. and clinical psychologist and licensed psychotherapist, now retired from the department of clinical neuroscience at Karolinska institutet, where he was in the faculty as senior lecturer in psychotherapy.
He has practiced MI in criminal justice and at the Dependency center Stockholm with clients with dependency disorders. Since he become a MI trainer in 1994 he has conducted numerous trainings in MI and has been active in the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) organization since its inception. He was a Trainer of New Trainers in 2007.
He has pioneered the use of MI in a range of groundbreaking contexts like enhancing environmental behavior and in veterinary animal health.
In 2005 he established one of few validated MITI coding labs (www.miclabglobal.com) in the world still serving research and training in MI, nationally and internationally. Lately, because of the corona pandemic also offering an internet based distance MI e-training. He has been an author to many publications for use in Sweden and chapters of Motivational Interviewing in several Swedish and international books as well as research articles.
I was first exposed to Motivational Interviewing (MI) in 1985 and in role play caught by the way counselor language shaped client respons. In my work with inmates at a prison I experienced that my use of MI helped in consultations with clients. Since then I have practiced MI, done research on MI effectiveness and on how to learn MI. I have trained MI in primary care, correctional staff and university students. I feel honored and lucky to be a part of the MI development in Sweden and internationally.
