Mat Southwell is Director of Traffasi, a freelance training company, that supports learning and practice around Motivational Interviewing and related motivational practice approaches. Mat trained in Motivational Interviewing in the early 1990s while working at the Healthy Options Team (HOT) a community harm reduction agency in the East End of London.
He has since trained across a number of sectors in the health and social care, criminal justice, youth and careers, and drug and alcohol services. Mat works with Moves into Consciousness to employ a motivational training approach that supports the adoption of motivational principles and practice.