Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET)
Are you struggling with making the changes in your life or struggling with addiction or motivation issues?
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a therapeutic intervention that helps you or your loved one uncover the motivation to change.
Motivational enhancement therapy and Motivational Interviewing (MI) are established forms of 1:1 talk therapy that assists you express your thoughts and needs around changing your life. We can help you take on MI and connected to other needs that you may have in mental health or psychotherapy.
During your time in MI, your therapist assists you to recognize the motivation that you have that may not be apparent to you.
This type of talk therapy may first ask you to identify which stage you currently are in, regarding changing your life today:
– Precontemplation. You are not ready to think about change.
– Contemplation. You are actively thinking about changing your life, but you are not making the changes that you need.
– Preparation. You are thinking, talking and planning about changing your life.
– Action – You are taking the steps that you have planned on; you are actively changing your life.
– Maintenance – You are supporting yourself and seeking resources to reinforce changing your life for the better.
Your therapist will frequently identify the current stage of change that you are in. One major goal of MI is for you to reach the “action” and “maintenance” stages of change and to make actionable steps and habits to bring you towards your goals.
MI is a brief clinical intervention and interviewing technique that we are trained in at Wyone Mental Health. Taking part in MET and MI allows you to reach better understandings of yourself and helps you increase your underlying motivations to identify needs but “desires” to change now.
MI works to move you or your loved one, from resistant to therapy, to applying therapy throughout your life, slowly but consistently.
MI allows you the space and time to use the therapeutic process towards making actual changes in your life. MI allows you to define the amount of need and the amount of ability that you have to make the changes, quit the habit, or move your life in the new direction.
This therapeutic process helps you and your therapist understand the changes that you want to make by talking about small movements that you have made and the larger goals that you have for your life.
Movements in motivation that you discover are brought out in your therapy sessions. Incremental movements may come from talking, questioning, identifying barriers, and reflecting your ideas in therapy.
We know that MET and MI are an important therapeutic approach for many people, children and adults. MET and MI may be a perfect option for some children or adults who are resistant to accepting and committing to changes including behavioral changes and even commitment to harmful habits or thinking errors.
MI is a specialty in many practitioner’s practices. We have studied and continued to utilize motivational interviewing in our practices for many years.
Please contact us to set up an appointment to discuss if MI is right for you now.
