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How can you use MI to build confidence in clients with phobias?

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Phobias are irrational and intense fears of specific objects, situations, or activities that interfere with your daily life. They can cause anxiety, panic, avoidance, and distress. If you struggle with a phobia, you may feel hopeless, embarrassed, or ashamed. But you don't have to live with fear. You can use motivational interviewing (MI) to build confidence and overcome your phobia.

MI is a collaborative and client-centered approach that helps you explore and resolve your ambivalence about changing your behavior. It focuses on your strengths, values, and goals, rather than on your problems, weaknesses, or barriers. MI can help you increase your motivation, commitment, and confidence to face your phobia and reduce your anxiety.

Here are some ways you can use MI to build confidence in clients with phobias:

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Chad Senkowski

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Alice Pehk, PhD

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1 Identify your readiness

One of the first steps in MI is to assess your readiness to change. You can use a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 means not ready at all and 10 means fully ready, to rate how willing and able you are to confront your phobia. This can help you identify your reasons for changing, as well as your concerns or doubts. You can also use the scale to monitor your progress and celebrate your achievements.

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Chad Senkowski

Host of theJOURNEY Podcast | Giving EVERYONE a Voice! Conversations that matter.
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Being able to assess where you are and where you want to be is key. At one time my public speaking ability was at a 1. I was terrified even to speak to small groups for fear of judgment. Being able to be honest with myself and see what I needed to work on helped to forge my plans. Here are a couple of tips I used. You can apply them to become better at public speaking: 1. Speak in front of people you trust to get better 2. Record video and review - it will help identify bad habits 3. Deepen your knowledge about subjects you want to speak about 4. Breathe - it will lower your heart rate and anxiety 5. Smile - it will make you more engaging and build your confidence The world is your stage; identify, embrace, and succeed!

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Laila St.Matthew-Daniel

Using our MENDR? Transformational Leadership Coaching programs to empower Executives, Management, and personnel in managerial positions to achieve their utmost optimal peak performance. Doctorate in Humanitarianism
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Very critical to the process to identify the issue and the point you are at. The scale scoring enables deep r eflection of the issue - depth thinking. This is the point where people want to avoid digging deep ans tend to gloss over the issue. The score will enable one to keep track as to the progress being made

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Alice Pehk, PhD

musicpsychotherapist, creative coach and team trainer, couples therapist, lecturer, supervisor, author
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Motivational interviewing can be supportive for a person with phobias, but psychotherapeutic intervention is definitely needed to cope with the phobias and get rid of these fears to a significant extent. In order to gain control over the phobias and to manage the emotions associated with them, it is necessary to clarify the causes of the phobias and to work through the possibly traumatic experiences associated with the phobias. One of the interventions that certainly works here is psychotherapeutic music therapy, which allows for rapid contact with one's subconscious in order to clarify what is going on there, including the background of the beliefs that cause the phobias and the emotional landscape associated with them.

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2 Explore your values

Another key element of MI is to explore your values and how they relate to your phobia. You can ask yourself questions like: What is important to you in life? How does your phobia affect your values? How would overcoming your phobia align with your values? These questions can help you clarify your vision and purpose for change, and increase your intrinsic motivation.

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3 Elicit your strengths

A third way to use MI is to elicit your strengths and resources that can help you cope with your phobia. You can ask yourself questions like: What are some of your skills, talents, or abilities? What are some of your positive qualities or traits? What are some of the supports or resources you have in your life? These questions can help you recognize your potential and capabilities, and boost your self-efficacy.

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4 Affirm your efforts

A fourth way to use MI is to affirm your efforts and achievements in facing your phobia. You can ask yourself questions like: What are some of the steps you have taken to overcome your phobia? What are some of the benefits or rewards you have experienced from changing your behavior? What are some of the compliments or feedback you have received from others? These questions can help you appreciate your progress and reinforce your confidence.

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Tarun Prajapat

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A tried and tested method, from personal experience, is to simply fill the shoes of the kind of person you want to be, in the moment. It’s a handy daily excercise for literally anything you want to achieve. Just beleive you are that person, behave like them, eventually you’ll become them. That’s self confidence in a nutshell - you’re not born with it, you attain it through self-belief. And, remember to never ‘want’ or ‘ask’, but to always ‘be’ and ‘have’ - affirmations manifest exactly what you focus on, so focussing on wanting or asking will always manifest a state of wanting and asking. Whereas focussing on being and having will manifest being and having, if that makes sense!

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5 Plan your actions

A fifth way to use MI is to plan your actions and strategies to overcome your phobia. You can ask yourself questions like: What are some of the specific and realistic goals you have for confronting your phobia? What are some of the actions or steps you can take to achieve your goals? What are some of the potential challenges or obstacles you may face, and how can you overcome them? These questions can help you create a clear and feasible plan that matches your readiness, values, and strengths.

MI is a powerful and effective tool that can help you build confidence and overcome your phobia. By using MI, you can tap into your own motivation, commitment, and confidence to change your behavior and improve your quality of life.

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6 Here’s what else to consider

This is a space to share examples, stories, or insights that don’t fit into any of the previous sections. What else would you like to add?

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