Requirements To Obtain EMDR Certification

By Eugenia Dickerson


If you wish to use EMDR as part of your practice, you have several training options available to you. If you do not have any experience in this field at all, you will need to commence your training program with the Basic Training program, prior to application for EMDR certification.

You can move on to the EMDR certification once you have completed the basic training. To be eligible for the certification course, there are a few criteria you have to abide with. To make application for the certification, it is necessary to complete the Basic Training program. A copy of the certificate to prove completion has to be attached to the application.

The application requires proof of registration or certification in the professional mental health field. You have to provide copies of documents to indicate that you have the facility to practice independently.

To apply, you need to have experience in your chosen practice field of at least two years. This should be relevant to the field of specialty indicated on your registration, license or certificate of professionalism. The documents you provide to prove your professionalism need to be notarized. If you are unable to provide proof of this experience, you have the opportunity to make a statement to this effect in writing and have that document notarized.

You should have conducted a minimum of 50 EMDR sessions with a minimum of 25 clients. This pre-requisite requires documentation to prove that you have this experience and the documents should be notarized. Once again, you do have the opportunity to write that you have fulfilled this requirement and have that particular document notarized accordingly. It is possible for you to combine your two years' experience and minimum sessions' declaration and have it notarized as a single document.

Qualification for the certificate requires that you have received a minimum of 20 hours of consultation from an Approved EMDR Consultant. The consultant should issue you with documentation which lists the amount of group and the amount of individual hours of consultation that was delivered. If you received consultation from more than one consultant, documentation should be obtained from each consultant.

Of the consulting hours you received, at least 10 should be individual and the rest may be allocated to small group hours. The groups should not have been larger than eight participants. These hours should be those you received after you completed the Basic Training.

To make a successful application for EMDR certification, letters of recommendation obtained from Approved Consultants in regard to your application of the service while in the consulting relationship are necessary. You should provide letters of recommendation regarding your use of the application in your practice are required from your peers and colleagues. A further requirement for the application is that you provide certificates showing that you have completed at least 12 hours of further education. The Basic Training program does not form part of this training. The training includes approved programs that you have undertaken after your basic training.




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