About The MI Training Center
MITC is owned and operated by Alicia Shiver and Lindsay Worth who are both members of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) and licensed counselors. They have diverse and comprehensive experience in training, coaching, and supervising professionals and behavioral health critical supporters and have a combined 40 years of experience working in clinical research, addictions, education, healthcare, and correctional settings.
MITC has received numerous government grants to provide training and education services in New Mexico. We have supported and facilitated two virtual MINT-Endorsed Training of New Trainer programs in 2020 and 2021 with participants attending from 14 countries. We continue to support people in learning and implementing motivational interviewing and have successfully worked with over 10,000 people in our 9 years of business.
Alicia and Lindsay live in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the home of Motivational Interviewing (MI). They currently work with and learn from William Miller, Ph.D. and Theresa Moyers, Ph.D. in their training and research program. This opportunity, along with years of MI teaching experience, has supported us in training and supporting others in Motivational Interviewing and other evidence-based practices.
Alicia Shiver, MA, LADAC, LPCC
Director at MITC
Member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers
Alicia is a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor (LADAC) in New Mexico and a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) in New Mexico and California. She is currently acting as an Associate Director of Behavioral Health and Social Services at a federally qualified health center (FQHC) in the Bay Area of California.
Alicia has clinical experience in primary care, dialysis clinics, correctional facilities, hospital emergency rooms, inpatient child and adolescent psychiatry, permanent supportive housing, outpatient community mental health, and medication-assisted treatment.
Alicia was first trained in MI in 2010 and has since stayed active in the field through research, clinical applications, implementation, coding, coaching, and training. Her professional interests include motivational interviewing, public health, harm reduction, neurodiversity, and community-based participatory research.
Stephen Rollnick, PhD Lindsay Worth, & William Miller, PhD MINT 2016, Montreal, Canada
Lindsay Worth, LMHC, MPA, MA
Director at MITC
Member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers
University of Washington
Lindsay is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with over 25 years of experience in mental health and addictions research at the University of New Mexico. Currently, she work with the University of Washington’s Northwest ATTC, where she support efforts to strengthen the addiction workforce through training, consultation, and the implementation of evidence-based treatment and recovery practices.
Lindsay has been training in Motivational Interviewing for the past 15 years, working with groups in New Mexico, across the United States, and internationally. She loves the opportunity to collaborate with diverse communities and settings, and is especially interested in empathy, change and sustain talk—the “music of language”—and the research base that supports MI. What she enjoy most is helping others explore how MI can deepen connection, inspire change, and strengthen practice in meaningful ways.
Lindsay Worth, Monty Roberts, & Alicia Shiver
Advanced MI Training at Monty Robert's Ranch, Solvang, CA, 2018
2021: MITC hosted a Virtual MINT Endorsed Training of New Trainers!
Virtual MINT TNT Team! Reyna Puentes, Alicia Shiver, Paul Warren, John Whitson-Russell, Takeshi Shimada, William R. Miller, Theresa Moyers, Katie Hartlieb, Raymond Anderson, Tara McCune, Verna Burden, Lindsay Worth, Carolina Yahne, Patricia Juarez, Walid Hassan
2020: MITC hosted the first ever online MINT Training of New Trainers!
Virtual MINT TNT Team! Kim Liphardt, Alicia Shiver, Desiree Phillmore, William R. Miller, Theresa Moyers, Mary Hodorowicz, Denise Ernst, Carol DeFrancesco, Nicki Venable, Cade Arnick, Patricia Juarez, & Lindsay Worth
Alicia Shiver, Theresa Moyers, & Lindsay Worth Virtual MINT TNT, October 2020
Press Conference for launch of the Bernalillo County Education & Training Grant (from left) Lindsay Worth, Julie Morgas Baca, Enrique Cardiel, Maggie Hart Stebbins, & Alicia Shiver
Alicia Shiver presenting preliminary data on the Bernalillo County Training & Education grant in Talinn, Estonia (2019)!
Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity (MITI)
MITI Training with Denise Ernst, PhD, January 2020
