I’ve written many Tips on giving advice. As nutrition counselors that is an important part of our job. To summarize: Motivational Interviewing offers us this format for most effectively couching our education: Elicit what the client already knows and/or needs…

When we provide advice to our clients, we make sure it is based on solid scientific evidence. What about how we deliver the advice? Is there evidence that can direct us here? Indeed, careful Motivational Interviewing research on specific wording…

Do you have a colleague who wants to practice counseling skills as much as you do? Great! Here are some ways you can help each other.

I am often asked how to most effectively work with interpreters.

We talk in nutrition counseling sessions and the client talks, too. What is an ideal relative amount of talking for each of us? First let’s look at the various reasons you may talk.

Motivational interviewing is a carefully researched model for change conversations. One of the parameters measured is the counselor’s ratio of reflections to questions.

As counselors, we strive for accurate empathy. We listen carefully and reflect back what we hear that seems important.

Making real, lifestyle change is tough and usually involves many steps and setbacks. To make the permanent changes we recommend takes persistence on our client’s part and ours.

We all encounter clients who tell us that if they change their body (lose weight), it will change their life for the better and a focus on weight loss alone is all they wish from us.

Here we look at how the four processes of MI (Tip # 114) support a nutrition counseling session based on the HAES® paradigm.