You only get one opportunity to sit down with your clients and get up close and personal enough to ask them questions relating to where they are in their life. The series of breakthroughs we want for them create waves in our own lives; I experience this every day. We have just concluded two weeks of treatment and most of our clients have sponsors and are working the steps. My role is to push them to persevere in writing a thorough fearless moral inventory and give them a swift kick to stay on it. Motivational interviewing is good for a short while, like an Anthony Robbins event. You get psyched and are on top of the world, but unless you move forward with action, the excitement evaporates. That is what happens most of the time.

Here at Into Action Treatment, we consider ourselves to be that gym where you jump in and lift weights, not walk in to shoot the breeze!