Understanding Motivational Interviewing: Motivational interviewing is a client-centered and collaborative counseling approach designed to help individuals explore and resolve ambivalence about behavior change. It involves active listening, empathy, and guiding individuals toward self-determined goals. Application and Scope of Motivational Interviewing: Motivational interviewing is applied to address a wide range of concerns, including substance abuse, addiction, weight management, and behavioral changes. It's particularly effective for individuals who may have mixed feelings about change and are seeking support to make healthier choices. Motivational interviewing is relevant for people of various backgrounds and stages of readiness for change. What to Expect in Motivational Interviewing Sessions: In motivational interviewing sessions, you'll work with a trained therapist who will create a non-judgmental and supportive environment. The therapist will actively listen, ask open-ended questions, and help you explore your goals and values. Through this collaborative process, you'll clarify your motivations for change and develop a plan to achieve your desired outcomes.

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Professionals Who Specialize in Motivational Interviewing

Rachel Brezel

Therapist, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC

If you want to live a life you’ve never lived, you have to do things you’ve never done.

  • 🥇 Empowering
  • 🎯 Direct
  • 💙 Warm
  • 💡 Solution-oriented

Pessy (Paula) Neuwirth, MHC- LP, CASAC-T

Therapist, Mental Health Counselor, Limited Permit: IN PERSON SESSIONS ONLY

Your past explains you, but it doesn't have to define you.

  • 💙 Warm
  • 😃 Humorous
  • 💡 Solution-oriented
  • 🐣 Out of the box

Yeshaya Kraus

Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW

Create a life that works for you.

  • 🎯 Direct
  • 💙 Warm
  • 👂 Listener
  • 🙌 Affirming

Hannah Pasternak

Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW

I work with adolescents and adults of all ages to make tangible progress towards the life you envision for yourself

  • 💙 Warm
  • 🤝 Collaborative
  • 💡 Solution-oriented
  • 😃 Humorous

Dania Brener

Dietitian, MS, RD, LDN

Your nutrition goals are my nutrition goals!

  • 💙 Warm
  • 👂 Listener
  • 💡 Solution-oriented
  • 🥇 Empowering

Esther Brodt, LCSW

Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW

Within each of us lies the power to access healing and the possibility of moving towards living with more meaning, contentment and ease

  • 💙 Warm
  • 😃 Humorous
  • 🥇 Empowering
  • 🙏 Spiritual

Talia Gutlove, LCSW, CST, C-PST

Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW

Practice Progress, NOT Perfection

  • 💭 Open minded
  • 🥇 Empowering
  • 🎯 Direct
  • 💙 Warm

Yehoshua Kronglas, LSW

Therapist, Licensed Social Worker

Be Yourself. Everyone else is taken.

  • 💙 Warm
  • 👂 Listener
  • 🙌 Affirming

Aryeh Wadler, LCSW

Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker

My therapy is client-centered, with a focus on your unique needs and goals.

  • 💙 Warm
  • 😃 Humorous
  • 👂 Listener
  • 🥇 Empowering

David Jordan, Coach

Coach, M.Ed. Positive Coaching & Athletic Leadership

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson

  • 💙 Warm
  • 💪 Challenging
  • 🎨 Creative
  • 🤝 Collaborative

Shauli Wagschal, MHC-LP

Therapist, Mental Health Counselor, Limited Permit: IN PERSON SESSIONS ONLY

I am not perfect... But I am enough. ― Carl R. Rogers

  • 👂 Listener
  • 💡 Solution-oriented
  • 🌎 Holistic
  • 🐣 Out of the box

Nahum Spirn

Therapist, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself, just as I am, then I can change.

  • 💙 Warm
  • 🙌 Affirming
  • 🐣 Out of the box
  • 🤝 Collaborative

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