Moticational Enhancement Therapy (MET)

Are you struggling with making the changes in your life that you need? Is your life in serious need of change but you feel like there is too much work involved to change your life? Is someone in your family struggling with a habit, behavior, or addiction and refusing to accept that they need to make some changes?

What is Motivational Enhancement Therapy?

Motivational enhancement therapy or MET is a therapeutic intervention that helps you or your loved one uncover the motivation to change.

Motivational enhancement therapy is an established form of 1:1 talk therapy or a group therapy intervention that assists you in expressing your thoughts and needs around changing your life. We can help you take on MET even with current social distancing measures.

During your time in MET, your therapist assists you to recognize the motivation that you have that may not be apparent to you.

This type of talk therapy may first ask you to identify which stage you currently are in, regarding changing your life today:

• Precontemplation. You are not ready to think about change.
• Contemplation. You are actively thinking about changing your life, but you are not making the changes that you need.
• Preparation. You are thinking, talking, and planning about changing your life.
• Action – You are taking the steps that you have planned on; you are actively changing your life.
• Maintenance – You are supporting yourself and seeking resources to reinforce changing your life for the better.

Your therapist may frequently identify the current stage of change that you are in. One major goal of MET is for you to reach the “action” and “maintenance” stages of change.

How does MET work?

MET is a brief type of treatment and intervention. Taking part in MET allows you to reach better understandings of yourself and helps you increase your underlying motivations. MET works to move you or your loved one, from resistant to therapy, to applying therapy throughout your life, slowly but consistently.

MET allows you space and time to use the therapeutic process towards making actual changes in your life. MET allows you to define the amount of need and the amount of ability that you have to make the changes quit the habit, or move your life in a new direction.

This therapeutic process helps you and your therapist understand the changes that you want to make by talking about small movements that you have made and the larger goals that you have for your life.

Movements in motivation that you discover are brought out in your therapy sessions. Incremental movements may come from talking, questioning, identifying barriers, and reflecting on your ideas in therapy.

At Thoughtwise, we know that MET is an important therapeutic approach for many people, children, and adults. MET may be a perfect option for some children or adults who are resistant to accepting and committing to change.

We look forward to talking with you about how MET works in modern-day treatment, please schedule a consultation at Thoughtwise today.