Alicia Shiver (she/they) lives in Pleasanton, California, USA. She is a licensed drug and alcohol and mental health therapist, and the co-owner of the MI Training Center (nmmitc.com). She has two children and enjoys spending her time hiking, rock/fossil hunting, crafting, listening to audio books, and sleeping.
Alicia has degrees in psychology, addictions counseling, and clinical mental health counseling from the University of New Mexico. She has worked in clinical research, education, healthcare, supportive housing, corrections, and community behavioral health as a therapist, case manager, trainer, and program director. Her professional interests include motivational interviewing, public health, harm reduction, neurodiversity, and community-based participatory research.
Alicia has trained upwards of 10,000 people in motivational interviewing since 2016 and regularly provides coding, coaching, and supervision to helpers in the fields of public health, medicine, education, behavioral health, addictions, housing, criminal justice, public safety, and child welfare.
Alicia Shiver is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers and the co-owner of the MI Training Center based in Albuquerque, NM, USA. MITC was established in January 2017 and has since trained over 10,000 helpers in motivational interviewing and other evidenced based practices.
Alicia was first introduced to MI when training as an addictions counselor in 2010 and has received training, coaching, and supervision from William R. Miller, Theresa Moyers, Denise Ernst, Kamilla Venner, and Alyssa Forcehimes. She is proficient in coding using the MITI 4.1 and participates in numerous ongoing coding groups and community learning groups.
Alicia has been supporting others in learning MI since 2015 and is passionate about increasing accessibility to high quality training and coaching. Alicia works from a comprehensive and evidenced-based model of training that supports people in building their skillfulness in MI through direct observation, coding, coaching, and feedback. In learning any complex skill, what is needed are opportunities for direct observation and feedback. Luckily, it has been shown that a few opportunities for feedback is sufficient in building and sustaining clinical skills in MI. To provide ample opportunities and support, I provide coding and one-on-one or small group coaching after initial MI training has been completed.
