dimanche 22 décembre 2013

How To Obtain EMDR Certification

By Eugenia Dickerson


If you intend including EMDR as a service in your practice, you have several ways in which to achieve this. To commence with gaining experience in the field, it is required of you to complete the Basic Training program and thereafter apply 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.

It is necessary to provide evidence of registration or certification to prove that you are a professional in the field of mental health. You need to provide copies of documents that indicate your ability 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.

To qualify, you need to have undertaken at least 50 relevant consultations with a minimum number of 25 clients. You need to provide documentation to this effect and the documents should be notarized. As with the experience requirements, you have the opportunity to put this requirement in writing and have that document notarized. You may combine the two requirements into one written document and have it notarized.

It is necessary for you to have undergone a minimum of 20 hours' consultation with an Approved Consultant in EMDR. Your consultant should be able to provide you with required documentation for this purpose. The documentation needs to list the hours you received in individual consultation and the hours you received in group consultation. If you received these hours from more than one consultant, you need to acquire the necessary documents from the different consultants.

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.

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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