Speaker Bios:

Kristin Dempsey, EDD, LMFT, LPCC

Kristin is a psychotherapist, counselor educator, and trainer in evidence-based psychotherapy practices.  Kristin is a practicing licensed marriage and family therapist and licensed clinical counselor.  She has worked in a variety of clinical settings: schools, community-based organization, county mental health, training agencies, and universities and professional schools. Kristin has been training clinicians and students in motivational interviewing since 2008, and Kristin has been practicing motivational interviewing since 2001. In addition to training in motivational interviewing, Kristin trains and provides consultation for clinicians in dialectical behavior therapy, trauma informed care, cognitive behavioral therapy, co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, clinician self-care, and suicide prevention and intervention. Kristin is lecturing faculty at San Francisco State University where she teaches addictions counseling, and she is an associate professor at the Wright Institute’s Counseling Psychology program where she teaches counseling skills, developmental psychology, research-based practice, group counseling, and addiction treatment. Kristin has assisted counseling agencies with self-assessment and programmatic change, and her EdD in Organizational Change and Leadership has assisted her in providing systems-level consultation. She is the author of The Harm Reduction Workbook for Addiction published by New Harbinger Press in 2024. She sees clients in San Francisco and Burlingame, CA offices.

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Ali Hall

She joined MINT in 2006 and works full time as an independent consultant and trainer, virtually as well as out of Reno, NV, San Francisco, CA and the Washington, DC areas. She has been fortunate to have designed and facilitated several thousand MI workshops for health care practitioners, behavioral health clinicians, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists and criminal / juvenile justice professionals, and provide training for trainers in evidence-based practices. She currently serves on the MINT Board of Directors and works with the professional skill development committee grouping. She also has served on a number of MINT committees and TNT teams in Fort Wayne, Atlanta, Berlin, New Orleans and Warsaw. She frequently provides MI coding and skill development coaching, coding QA, research intervention design, and consultation to systems for effective MI implementation. She is also a co-developer of the Motivational Interviewing Competency Assessment (MICA) coding and coaching instrument and co-author of Motivational Interviewing for Mental Health Clinicians: A Toolkit for Skills Enhancement. She spent her undergraduate years at Occidental College in Los Angeles, and completed graduate studies in organizational behavior at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University as well as my J.D. at the Cornell University School of Law. In her spare time, she participates in cold- water marathon swimming events, raising funds for under-resourced kids’ charities.