Motivational Interviewing is an appropriate model for working with Nancy’s case. One of the reasons is that exploring and resolving ambivalence is the emphasis of the MI approach. It is clear that Nancy’s ambivalence affecting her to living a healthy and fulfilling life. Obviously, the obstacles that are blocking the development of her spiritual life tie to her sexual abuse, her history of multiple addictions, her failed relationships, and her career problems as she mentioned in the first session. The ambivalence is that on the one hand she says she had been delivered from the pain of being abused; on the other hand, she realizes that her forgiveness work is incomplete. In addition, her denial of her emotional pain through the spiritual bypass
