You finished training. Now make EMDR truly yours.
Ongoing EMDR consultation with EMDRIA-Approved Consultants — for mastering the basics, treating your most complex cases, and reaching EMDR Certification.
EMDR skills are built in the room, not in a weekend. The research is clear that EMDR loses effectiveness without ongoing consultation — and that’s exactly the gap we fill. In a warm, judgment-free setting, you’ll get individualized feedback on the things that actually dictate outcomes: case conceptualization, client readiness, target selection, treatment planning, and how to keep EMDR safe and effective with complex, dissociative, or highly traumatized clients.
Whether you want to feel solid in the basics, work through a case that has you stuck, or earn your EMDR Certification, our team of seasoned, EMDRIA-Approved Consultants will meet you exactly where you are.
Your guided path to EMDR Certification — The Restorative EMDR Method™
Certification can feel like a maze of requirements. We turn it into a clear, supported path. The Restorative EMDR Method is a connection-centered certification curriculum that pairs advanced clinical training with the consultation you need to actually get there — built around compassion and clinical excellence in equal measure.
You’ll get:
• 20 consultation hours toward EMDRIA Certification, with experienced EMDRIA-Approved consultants
• Advanced training in case conceptualization, target sequencing, and extended resourcing for complex clients
• Deeper work in somatics, attachment wounds, and dissociation
• EMDRIA credit hours that count toward your certification requirements
All in a relational, human setting designed to make you not just certified, but genuinely better at this work.
EMDR Trained
vs EMDR Certified
Consultation
What is Consultation? Consultation allows trainees to safely and effectively integrate the use of EMDR therapy into their clinical setting. Consultation provides an opportunity for the integration of the theory of EMDR therapy along with the development of EMDR therapy skills. During consultation trainees receive individualized feedback and instruction in the areas of case conceptualization, client readiness, target selection, treatment planning, specific application of skills, and the integration of EMDR therapy into clinical practice with complex clients. Consultation also allows the trainee to develop and integrate EMDR therapy skills creatively into their other skills in a way that enhances clinical efficiency and effectiveness in helping a wider range of clients meet their goals for change.
What is consultation good for? Consult about EMDR cases to increase competency Gain professional development of conceptual, perceptual, & procedural skills as EMDR clinicians “Establish, maintain, & promote the highest standards of excellence & integrity in EMDR practice, research, & education” (Lichti, 2014) Helps clinicians “to safely and effectively integrate the use of EMDR therapy into their clinical setting” (EMDRIA, 2016) Efficacy decreases without consultation (Leeds, 2016). Practice with a manualized therapeutic framework to maintain fidelity for client success Balance between staying “out of the way” to allow spontaneous reprocessing & knowing when interventions are needed (Shapiro, 2018) Increase insight of nonverbal elements to guide interventions Hone skills related to knowing when EMDR reprocessing is not appropriate Source - Purposes of Consultation Browning, Leeds, Madere, Sells, & Sperling (2020)
Consultation addresses, but is not limited to, the following content: Use of EMDR therapy within a structured treatment plan Application of the 8 Phases of EMDR therapy Case conceptualization and target selection Client readiness including inclusion, exclusion and cautionary criteria for EMDR therapy Client safety and effective outcomes Integration of EMDR therapy into the clinical setting with more complex clients Application of advanced EMDR skills with specific populations if applicable (i.e. complex trauma, dissociation, somatic/medical symptoms, first responders, addiction, children, OCD, etc.)
Consultant Criteria
Per EMDRIA
1. EMDR International Association Approved EMDR Training
Provide a copy of your certificate of completion of an EMDRIA Approved EMDR Training program.
2. License/Certification
Provide a copy of your license to practice independently as a mental health professional in the state or province where you practice.
3. Three Years of EMDR Experience
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Do you have at least three years of experience after completing an EMDRIA Approved EMDR Training program?
Applicants must have the minimum 3 years of experience after completion of the EMDR Training.
4. Notarized Statement of EMDR Sessions
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Have you conducted at least 300 EMDR sessions with at least 75 clients?
Provide a notarized document supporting this statement. Applicants can simply state "I have conducted at least 300 EMDR sessions with at least 75 clients" or similar wording and then have it notarized.
5. Twenty (20) Hours of Consultation-of-Consultation by an EMDR Consultant™ in EMDR
Twenty hours of consultation-of-consultation are required. Provide documentation from the EMDR Consultant(s)™ who provided consultation-of-consultation to you. It must specify the exact number of consultation hours you received and designate how many of those were individual consultations and how many were group consultations.
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If you have received consultation from more than one EMDR Consultant™, you will need documentation from each one.
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Consultation-of-consultation groups cannot exceed more than four EMDR Consultants-in-Training at any one time.
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Only consultation hours received after becoming an EMDR Certified Therapist™ can be applied towards this requirement.
6. EMDR Consultant™ Letter(s) of Recommendation
Provide letter(s) from one or more EMDR Consultant(s)™ addressing the quality of your consultation in EMDR to others.
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Letters may include documentation of consultation hours as required in #5 above.
7. Letters of Recommendation Regarding Professional Practice
Provide two letters of recommendation regarding your professional utilization of EMDR in clinical practice, consultation abilities, ethics in practice, and professional character. These letters may be from colleagues or peers.
8. 12 Hours of EMDRIA Credits
Provide certificates of completion for at least 12 hours of EMDRIA Credits (continuing education in EMDR).
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Only EMDRIA Credit Programs in EMDR obtained after the completion of EMDR Training may be used towards this requirement. EMDR Training programs are not awarded EMDRIA Credits.
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EMDRIA Credits are one-time use only. If you've used credits to apply or renew EMDR Certification, they cannot be reused for the EMDR Consultant™ application.
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Certificates of completion of EMDRIA Credits hours should include the EMDRIA program approval number and the number of credits earned.
9. EMDR International Association Policies Agreement
Applicants must read and verify on the application form that they agree to adhere to
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UPSIDE Approved Consultation Provider
The EMDRIA Uplifting Populations Support Initiative program increases the number of BIPOC & LGBTQIA+ individuals who have advanced in leadership capacity in EMDR by becoming EMDR Certified™ or EMDR Consultants™ through providing scholarships for consultation hours.