Friday, December 20, 2013

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.

Once you have completed the basic training, you will have the opportunity to apply for EMDR certification. This requires a certain level of experience and the fulfillment of certain criteria. The application for the certificate requires the successful completion of the Basic Training program. You will have to provide a certificate to indicate that you have completed this training program.

You should be able to provide proof of a certification or registration as a professional in the mental health field. A photocopy of the documents that show you are able to practice independently need to be submitted with your application.

Applicants need to prove that they have at least 2 years' experience in their chosen practice field. This should be relevant to the specialty indicated on your license or certificate as a professional. The documentation that is provided to this effect should be notarized as proof of the specialism in your field. If you do not possess such documentation, you may write out the required statement regarding the two years of experience and the written acknowledgement should be notarized.

A minimum of 50 relevant sessions to at least 25 clients is required to have been conducted by you. It is necessary to provide documents proving that you have completed this requirement. The documents in proof should be notarized. It is possible for you to write down that this requirement has been fulfilled and have the statement notarized. You have the opportunity to combine the statement declaring the two year's experience and the minimum sessions and obtain notarization in one 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.

A minimum of 10 hours should be individual consultation and the balance could be via a small group consultation. The number in the groups may not exceed 8 participants at any one time. The eligibility of the hours is limited to the consultations you received after the completion of the basic training program.

It is necessary for you to obtain recommendation letters from the Approved Consultants which refer to your use of the service while you were consulting with them. This is required as an attachment to your EMDR certification application. Letters of recommendation are required from both your colleagues and your peers regarding your EMDR use in practice. You also have to provide certificates of completion of further education undertaken in EMDR. The number of hours of further study should not be below 12. Your completion of the Basic Training program does not qualify for this requirement. There are many approved training programs that you are able to undertake that will suffice for this requirement.




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