Intermediate
Advanced Motivational Interviewing Techniques
Advanced Motivational Interviewing Techniques strengthens MI for experienced Canadian addiction counsellors and healthcare workers, teaching advanced reflections, strategic elicitation and consolidation of change talk, managing sustain talk/discord, and structured change planning. Participants gain outcomes-focused skills—improved engagement, retention, collaborative plans and measurable change talk—and trauma‑informed, harm‑reduction, pharmacotherapy, culturally responsive, group/telehealth and MITI fidelity tools.
Lifetime accessCertificate of completion16 lessonsMobile & desktop
Harm ReductionMotivational InterviewingCommunicationCounselling SkillsCultural CompetencyGroup Facilitation
$60CAD
6 CEU hrs
What you'll learn
Elicit, deepen and consolidate client change talk using advanced reflections, precision questioning and strategic summaries to promote commitment and behavior change.
Integrate MI with trauma-informed care, harm reduction and pharmacotherapy approaches (including OAT) while applying culturally responsive adaptations for Indigenous, immigrant and rural/remote Canadian contexts.
Sustain high-fidelity MI practice through MITI-informed feedback, supervision, self-audit and measurable outcome tracking within multidisciplinary Canadian service settings.
Requirements
- Foundational MI training (workshop, course or equivalent practice experience) and regular use of MI in clinical contact prior to taking this course.
- Active clinical role or supervised practice with clients experiencing substance use, ambivalence, or readiness-for-change challenges (recommended for practice exercises).
- Access to audio/video recording for practice and supervision (where permitted) or ability to participate in live role-plays.
