Become an EMDR Europe accredited therapist
Accreditation is a mark of your competence and trustworthiness as an EMDR therapist. As an accredited therapist, people looking for help can feel confident knowing that you have reached a certain level of experience and expertise and have accountability in place.
Once you have accreditation from EMDR Europe (the overarching body of which the EMDR Association UK and Ireland is a member), you can be listed on this website under the ‘Find a Therapist’ feature so that potential clients or referrers can find you.
EMDR therapists can be accredited at 3 levels – Practitioner, Consultant and Trainer. Practitioner and Consultant accreditation details are below. Details on how to become an EMDR Trainer can be found here:
Accredited Practitioners are recognised as having demonstrated their competence in the practice of EMDR under supervision of an EMDR Consultant. They are entitled to have their details listed on the Association’s website. In order to see the criteria and the application form for accreditation as a Practitioner please download the following:
Accreditation fee: £80.00
Re-Accreditation fee: £45.00
Child and Adolescent Accreditation fee: £45.00
Please make cheques payable to EMDR Association UK and Ireland and post to:
EMDR Association UK and Ireland
PO Box 3356
Swindon
SN2 9EE
Application forms along with supporting documents need to be scanned as one document and must be sent by email to: info@emdrassociation.org.uk
(Please note completion by a supervising consultant who is a close family member will not be accepted.)
Next Accreditation Committee meetings for:
2019:
17th January, 21st March, 16th May, 11th July, 12th September, 14th November
2020:
16th January, further dates TBC
Electronic papers must be received by email at least 10 working days prior to the meeting. Papers which miss this deadline will be considered at the next meeting.
Find a EMDR clinical supervisor
To find an Accredited EMDR Consultant to assist you in working toward accreditation please follow this link here and search the map for consultants.
Accredited Consultants are accredited Practitioners who have received further training and supervision as well as having extensive experience in the practice of EMDR. They are qualified to supervise EMDR therapists who are working towards becoming accredited Practitioners and Consultants.
To see the criteria and the application form for accreditation as a Consultant please download the following:
(Please note completion by a supervising Consultant who is a close family member will not be accepted.)
Accreditation fee: £80.00
Re-accreditation fee: £45.00
Please make cheques payable to EMDR Association UK & Ireland and post to:
EMDR Association UK & Ireland
PO Box 3356
Swindon
SN2 9EE
Application forms and scanned supporting documents must be sent by email only (in one single document) to: info@emdrassociation.org.uk
Applicants must provide evidence of CPD event attendance.
2019 – TBC but likely to be February 2019 in London and will include Child and Adolescent consultant components.
If you require further details contact: info@emdrassociation.org.uk
18th January 2019, 22nd March, 16th May, 11th July, 12th September, 14th November, 16th Jan 2020
Papers must be received by at least 10 working days prior to the meeting. Papers which miss this deadline will be considered at the next meeting.
EMDR Europe Guidelines for Training Facilitators
Accreditation with EMDR Europe as a Practitioner or Consultant lasts for five years. You will need to apply for re-accreditation at the end of this period.
If you have a break in your EMDR Association membership of more than three months, e.g. if your membership has lapsed, you must also apply for re-accreditation.
Please read the re-accreditation criteria in the document below.
Re-accreditation criteria
For re-accreditation as an EMDR Practitioner, you will need one reference from an EMDR Accredited Consultant, plus one other professional (clinical supervisor/manager) reference.
For re-accreditation as an EMDR Consultant, you will need references from two EMDR Accredited Consultants, one of whom needs to be able to comment on your clinical work.
For re-accreditation as a Consultant who is also accredited as a Child and Adolescent Consultant, you only need to submit one re-accreditation application but one of your Consultant recommendations must be from an Accredited Consultant who works mainly with children and adolescents. Ten of the required twenty five EMDR-specific Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits must be for Child and Adolescent workshops.
(Please note completion by a supervising Consultant who is a close family member will not be accepted.)
Increase in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements for re-accreditation effective from JANUARY 2020.
The EMDR Association United Kingdom and Ireland Trustee Board has recently approved (April 2018) a proposal to increase the CPD requirements for EMDR Europe Accredited Practitioner and Consultant re-accreditation status.
There is currently a requirement to gain a minimum of fifty EMDR Europe credits, twenty five of which must be EMDR specific, over the five year period of accreditation. Comparison with CPD requirements of other professional accrediting bodies has indicated to the Association and the Association’s Accreditation Committee that the existing re-accreditation criteria was minimal.
EMDR Europe Accredited Consultants and Practitioners whose re-accreditation falls due post January 2020, will be required to provide evidence of seventy five CPD credits, fifty of which must be EMDR specific. This must include attendance to at least one national conference of the EMDR Association United Kingdom and Ireland.
Scanned supporting documents must be sent by email only to: info@emdrassociation.org.uk
Please submit your application as one continuous document
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Applications will be considered through the EMDR UK and Ireland Accreditation Committee. If successful the period of renewal will be for a further five-year period.
Re-accreditation fee: £45.00
Please make cheques payable to EMDR Association UK and Ireland and post to:
EMDR Association UK and Ireland
PO Box 3356
Swindon
SN2 9EE
Re-accreditation Committee meetings will be held on the following dates in 2018:
18th January 2019, 22nd March, 16th May, 11th July, 12th September, 14th November, 16th Jan 2020
Papers must be received by at least 10 working days before the meeting. Papers which miss this deadline will be considered at the next meeting.
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