(HS Rollnick, Adams 150467 2026) Advanced Motivational Interviewing with Stephen Rollnick: How to Use Advice and Offer Fee...

Course overview

For decades, clinicians have been warned to avoid giving advice in therapy for fear of triggering resistance, damaging rapport, or undermining client autonomy. Yet many clients explicitly seek guidance -- and when handled skillfully, feedback can become a catalyst for engagement, collaboration, and real behavioral change. It can also be seamlessly merged with motivational interviewing. In this advanced training, Motivational Interviewing (MI) co-founder Stephen Rollnick, PhD, supported by Orla Adams, explore how the MI approach has evolved to embrace advice and feedback as essential components of the therapeutic process -- when they are offered with respect, autonomy support, and collaborative spirit. Through a combination of lecture, discussion, demonstration, and applied practice, participants will learn how to integrate MI-consistent guidance into sessions focused on anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship issues, and other clinical concerns. Participants will deepen their understanding of the nuanced language, timing, and structure that transform advice from a source of resistance into an opportunity for change. They will also gain ready-to-use scripts and strategies that increase engagement, reduce dropout, and foster sustained motivation -- equipping them to meet client needs more effectively in diverse real-world contexts.