Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a collaborative and empowering treatment modality focused on your inherent drive to make healthy and positive adjustments, particularly in an area where you are feeling conflicted or unprepared for change. MI focuses on the identification, examination, and resolution of uncertainty about changing a behavior. MI is evocative, your therapist will support you through autonomy, to uncover any ambivalence or insecurity you have about a particular behavior or issue and will help you to identify and work to resolve this internal conflict. Together, you and your therapist will use this motivation to determine realistic, actionable, and incremental steps that will enable you to shift your behavior to better align with your goals. Because these steps are determined collaboratively, with your goals and internal motivations front and center, you will be prepared for and committed to these changes and able to sustain them over the long term. Ultimately TF-CBT is to allow both child and parent to continue to develop their skills and communication techniques in a healthy manner.