Biographical Sketch

Dr. Carolina Yahne trains clinicians in Motivational Interviewing in both English and Spanish, and consistently earns excellent instructor ratings averaging 95% from her trainees. The originator of Motivational Interviewing, William R. Miller, has written that she is "one of the finest trainers I have ever known".

Her undergraduate degree, with distinction, is from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her doctorate in Counseling Psychology is from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

She is Past President of the New Mexico Psychological Association, and the recipient of the Heiser Award for Advocacy from the American Psychological Association.  With an international group of colleagues, she founded the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT).