Motivational interviewing can help build confidence by: 1. Showing Self-Kindness: Be compassionate with yourself instead of judgmental. 2. Recognizing Strengths: Reflect on your past successes to remind yourself of your abilities. 3. Setting Small Goals: Focus on manageable steps toward growth, which boosts confidence as you progress. 4. Fostering Self-Belief: Trust that you have the power to make positive changes. 5. Encouraging Inner Motivation: Shift focus from needing outside approval to finding confidence within. These techniques helped me personally turn self-doubt into self-assurance by focusing on my own strengths and growth.

Motivational Interviewing (MI) can help build confidence by fostering self-awareness and highlighting personal strengths. Through open-ended questions, reflective listening, and affirmations, MI guides you to recognize past achievements and current capabilities. This process helps you see your potential and value, transforming self-doubt into self-belief. By exploring your values and setting realistic goals, MI strengthens your commitment to change and enhances confidence, helping you focus on progress rather than perceived flaws.

MI can help you to learn more and gain further understanding of where that self-doubt comes from and to make a decision and take action to remove it. The need to build rapport and some agreed understanding of how to proceed is important. MI helps a client become more self-aware, ready to take action to make changes to their life and how they see themselves. This includes challenging any cognitive dissonance. A client often experiences self-doubt when their beliefs and actions are not consistent or they hold two beliefs that are in conflict. For example, a belief in giving your time to your family and a belief in achievement at work. Using socratic questions helps unpick that conflict and reduce self-doubt.