Motivational interviewing is used in the treatment of addictions and is meant to help a person increase their desire to make a behavioural change as it relates to the use of substances. Motivational interviewing includes education about the effect of substances, weighing the costs and benefits of continuing to use, looking at how a person’s values and goals fit with their current or past use of substances, and examining what a future without substances may look like. The use of motivational interviewing techniques is meant to help explore the ambivalence that can come along with making any significant change in our lives, let alone changing our relationship with substances.