I am a speaker, trainer, and consultant in Motivational Interviewing and similar brief intervention approaches to changing health behavior. I have been trained by some of the most well-known experts in brief interventions including  William Miller, Alan Marlatt, Terri Moyers, Denise Ernst, Mary Larimer, and John Baer.  I have been involved in MI training and consultation since 2000, and have been a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) since 2003.

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I am a clinical health psychologist and Professor in the Department of Psychology at Oklahoma State University.  I completed my graduate training at the University of Washington and my pre-doctoral internship at the Puget Sound VA Healthcare System – Seattle.  I have trained thousands of providers across the state of Oklahoma, and have been training and consulting with home-based service providers since 2001. My research interests include brief motivational interventions for health behavior change and motivational predictors of self-directed and assisted behavior change.  I have worked on numerous different federal, state and privately funded intervention projects that investigated adaptations of motivational interviewing.

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