AvaniDilger
professional
- Business name
- MI Training Team
- Address line 1
- 2525 Arapahoe Ave
- Address line 2
- Suite E4-232
- Town
- Boulder
- Country
- United States
- Postcode/zip code
- 80302
- State
- Colorado
- Telephone number
- 3038595778
personal
- First Name
- Avani
- Surname
- Dilger
company members
- Services Offered
- Introductory Training, Intermediate training, Advanced training, Supervision, Coaching, Coding, Training for Groups
- Area of practice
- Addiction, Criminal Justice, Mental Health, Organisational Change
- Training language 1
- English
- Training language 2
- German
- Training interests
- Criminal Justice, Mental Health, Substance Abuse, Volunteer Organizations
- Trainer statement
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I am interested in providing Motivational Interviewing training for challenging work contexts, such as criminal justice, mental health, and substance abuse treatment. I develop tailored MI trainings for agencies in order to provide practical, user friendly, highly skill oriented MI trainings and long-term strategic implementation plans.
About Me
- About me
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Avani G. Dilger, MEd, MA, LPC, CACIII, is a certified Addiction Counselor Supervisor, a Licensed Professional Counselor, and a Somatic Psychotherapist who has specialized in substance abuse treatment with adults, teens-at-risk, and their families.
She has done extensive research, training, and clinical work with traditional and alternative approaches to substance abuse treatment. She is the founder and director of the “Natural Highs – Healthy Alternatives to Drugs & Alcohol” Program, an interactive, holistic substance abuse prevention and intervention program that is currently offered in several Boulder high schools and at Naropa University. She works as a substance abuse counselor for teens, families, and adults. She is passionate about effective ways of supporting people with issues of resistance and ambivalence and is a member of the International Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). She has been training Motivational Interviewing in the Criminal Justice System, in mental health, and substance abuse treatment in Maine, Massachusetts, Illinois, Nebraska, Idaho, Arizona, New Jersey, Florida, Hawaii, and Colorado since 2005.