Mining for Affirmations
Motivational Interviewing practice
Instructions

Affirmations are observations of a client's genuine strengths, values, and efforts, not compliments, and they center the client, not the clinician's reaction to them.

1
Bring a current or recent client to mind. Use fictional or composite details only.
2
Identify the genuine strengths, values, and efforts you notice in them.
3
Turn each strength into an affirmation you could say to the client, then check your work.
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Part One
Identify Client Strengths

What strengths, values, or efforts do you notice in this client?

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Part Two
Craft the Affirmation

Each strength appears above in green. Write an affirmation in the field below it: a genuine, specific statement you could say directly to this client.

Add strengths in Part 1 to get started.
AI feedback
Check my work

Get motivational interviewing feedback on the affirmations you wrote. You will see what works, what reads more like praise, and a stronger version where it helps.

This sends the strengths and affirmations you typed to an AI model for feedback. Use fictional or composite client details only, never real client information.

Save your work