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Lourdes is a Licensed mental health counselor with 7 years of post graduate experience. She is passionate about helping people change the patterns in their life that they want to change. She works primarily with substance use disorders and eating disorders in her private practice.
She was introduced to MI in 2014 where she learned to use the skills in parent groups to facilitate change. At this time, she learned how to use MI, co-trained, and used a coding system for treatment integrity and research reliability. Since then, Lourdes has been a coauthor of many research projects involving MI for parents and teens with ADHD. In 2018, Lourdes was invited to attend the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) Training for Trainers (TNT). Since becoming a MINT member, she has worked with many graduate students as a supervisor and uses MI coaching and coding as a teaching tool and has continued to work on several research projects, one of which includes the design of a coding system for MI.
Lourdes is passionate about facilitating learning and empowering individuals in the helping and health professions.
January 18, 2024
Lourdes is a Licensed mental health counselor with 7 years of post graduate experience. She is passionate about helping people change the patterns in their life […]
January 5, 2024
Sara Schieffelin, LICSW (she/her) lives in Florence, Massachusetts, and respectfully acknowledges this is where the Indigenous communities of the Nipmuc, Nonotuck, and Pocumtuck lived. Sara is […]
January 4, 2024
Maureen Gecht-Silver is an occupational therapist and a medical educator. She has worked as an occupational therapy clinician, educator, and researcher in community-based settings and in […]
January 2, 2024
Teresa respectfully acknowledges the land on which she lives, works, and plays, the unceded traditional territories of the Eno, Tuscarora and Occaneechi peoples (band of the […]
December 19, 2023
Amy Shanahan, a consultant in Pittsburgh, PA, acknowledges the ancestral lands of the Seneca, Adena culture, Hopewell culture, and Monongahela peoples, joined later by refugees from […]
October 4, 2022
Joe Simmons is a Professional Certified Coach, trainer, and member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers, based in New York City. He partners with healthcare […]
October 4, 2022
Verna Burden, MS, RD spent the first part of her career in nutrition research. But after a workshop on Motivational Interviewing (MI) in 2001, she began shifting […]
September 7, 2022
Lynn respectfully acknowledges that since she lives and works in Ottawa it is the traditional unceded, unsurrendered territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin People. The Algonquin People […]
September 7, 2022
Margarita respectfully recognizes and honors the original peoples of New Mexico. The indigenous peoples, past and present, that have protected and stewarded these lands since time […]
August 22, 2022
Carol DeFrancesco, MALS, RDN has been an active member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) since completing her training for new trainers (TNT) in […]
February 8, 2021
Ariel (pronounced R-E-L) has over a decade of experience working on health promotion and health system redesign, primarily with safety net health care organizations in Oregon […]
April 14, 2020
Christina is facilitator, teacher and coach focused on assisting individuals and teams to deepen their own knowledge and ability to apply improvement principles. She works alongside […]