Ali Hall

Ali Hall is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT), a MINT Certified Trainer, and an independent consultant and trainer. Ali currently serves as a Director Emeritus from the MINT Board of Directors where she focuses on professional skill development for MI practitioners and trainers. Ali will serve as Lead Trainer for the MINT Training for New Trainers (TNT) in 2025 (virtual) and served as Lead Trainer in Canada (2023—Virtual), Warsaw (2019), New Orleans (2018) and Berlin (2015), co-trainer in Atlanta (2014) and provided training team support in Fort Wayne (2012) and Sheffield (2011).

Ali has designed and facilitated thousands of Motivational Interviewing (MI) workshops for a wide variety of providers, including those who serve within behavioral health, substance use recovery, mental health, health care, child and family, wraparound, senior service, and criminal justice systems. Ali also provides training for trainers in several evidence-based practices. Ali regularly provides skill development coaching for interdisciplinary provider teams. Ali is the co-developer of the Motivational Interviewing Competency Assessment (MICA), a coding and coaching tool for MI skill improvement, co-author of the book Motivational Interviewing for Mental Health Clinicians: A Toolkit for Skill Development (2021) and co-author of the forthcoming What’s the Problem? An Advanced Guide to Motivational Interviewing (2025).

Ali is a subject matter expert for several MI demonstration series including: “MI with Adolescents” produced by psychotherapy.net that includes MI with Adolescents: Core Concepts, MI in Juvenile Justice Settings, MI for Adolescent Health Behavior and MI for Adolescent Substance Use; for the California Judicial Education Resources (CJER) MI video scenarios and guide for judges; for the University of California at Davis Human Services Academy supporting child welfare services and parent partners across the state; and the UC Davis MI in Child Welfare video series. Ali is a consultant for Chapin Hall/University of Chicago, for supporting MI implementation best practices under the Family First Prevention Services Act.

Ali regularly designs and evaluates MI interventions for funded research, including large national and international studies. Ali’s work with agencies includes creating skills development curricula for staff and materials for those served. Ali also regularly provides workshops in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), applications of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and integration of MI and skill building evidence-based practices.

Ali spent her undergraduate years at Occidental College in Los Angeles and completed her graduate studies in organizational behavior, organization design and work motivation at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) at Cornell University, as well as her J.D. at the Cornell University School of Law. Ali holds an Advanced Certificate from Cornell University’s ILR School in Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility Strategies (IDEAS) and is a Cornell Certified Diversity Professional. In her spare time Ali participates in marathon swimming events, raising funds for under-resourced kid’s charities.