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:
2020:
16th January, 27th March, 14th May, 11th July, 10th September, 12th November
2021:
14th March, 13th May, 8th July, 16th September, 11th November
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
4-7 March 2020 London
7-10 October 2020 Newcastle or London (final venue TBC)
Each course will include Child and Adolescent consultant components
Attendance requires a letter of recommendation from your supervising Consultant and attendance should be towards the end of your consultant-in-training preparation.
If you require further details contact: info@emdrassociation.org.uk
2020:
16th January, 27th March, 14th May, 11th July, 10th September, 12th November
2021:
14th March, 13th May, 8th July, 16th September, 11th November
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 Accredited Consultants with 2 years post-accreditation experience and teaching experience can work towards becoming a Training Facilitator through mentorship with an Accredited EMDR Trainer. Further Guidance can be found below.
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:
2020:
16th January, 27th March, 14th May, 11th July, 10th September, 12th November
2021:
14th March, 13th May, 8th July, 16th September, 11th November
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.
You are required to be a member of the Association to apply for accreditation but do not need to be a member to undertake the training and you can count cases from the point that you complete level 1 of the basic training, provided they have been supervised by a Europe accredited EMDR consultant supervisor.
Please see above. You do not have to be a member of the Association to train or be supervised by an accredited consultant. From Jan 2011 it became compulsory to add additional supervision hours to training. Part 4 provides 10 hours of supervision . Once you have completed all parts of your EMDR basic training you will have accrued 10 hours of supervision which counts towards accreditation. Please note that trainings before that date did not include a supervision element.
Only supervision by a EUROPE Accredited EMDR Consultant can be counted for your application for accreditation.
You can count cases for which you have received supervision by an Accredited EMDR Consultant if that consultant provides written confirmation of the supervision and you include it with your application.
No. Ask your previous supervisor to provide you with written confirmation of the work you have done together and sign off the cases he/she has supervised.
No. Only supervision by an EMDR Europe Accredited Consultant is recognised for accreditation (though Peer Supervision can be helpful).
Yes. Group supervision hours are counted in the same way as individual supervision hours.
Ideally a group should consist of no more than 5 participants and should last for around 2 hours. EMDR Consultants need to be able to be sure that they can safely supervise the practice of all of their supervisees. EMDR Consultants need also to be able to gain a clear picture of their supervisee’s practice and to take into account the regularity of attendance of their supervisees at groups.
The guidelines make it clear that in order to fulfil the conditions for accreditation your EMDR consultant must either see a recording of your work OR have seen an in vivo session which satisfies him/her that you are able to utilise the standard protocol.
The guidelines make it clear that in order to fulfil the conditions for accreditation your EMDR consultant must either see a recording of your work OR have seen an in vivo session which satisfies him/her that you are able to utilise the standard protocol.
You need to be able to demonstrate competency in all eight phases of the EMDR protocol: this may be in combination with examples from your video material.
Write to the Association administrator explaining your circumstances. A member of the committee is responsible for considering all mitigating circumstances.The committee will consider mitigating circumstances. It is also advisable that your EMDR Supervisor/consultant writes to the Chair stating their support for the request.
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.
If you have a break in membership of more than 3 months you must reapply for accreditation.
It is your responsibility to keep track of your accreditation. If your membership has lapsed for more than 3 months then you must reapply for accreditation. NB: All members are sent reminders.
It is your responsibility to satisfy your registering body that you have fulfilled the CPD requirements for continuing registration. You can provide this evidence when you apply for reaccreditation.
CPD points are not awarded for supervision, but attendance at a supervision group fulfils one of the criteria for re accreditation and you should make reference to it in your application.
It is expected that you would engage in such activities throughout your period of accreditation but this would be over and above your attendance at CPD events.
We recognise that you may be supervising people who do not wish or are not ready to seek accreditation. Putting people forward for accreditation is not a requirement for re accreditation though we would like you to encourage supervisees to apply for accreditation.
The creation of the role EMDR consultant is not meant as a title to provide status. You are encouraged provide supervision and your lack of provision of supervision may be a factor when considering your reaccreditation. It is explicit that the role of the EMDR Consultant is to provide EMDR clinical supervision.
You should let your supervisee know that you have a duty inform both their registering body and the EMDR Association.
You should inform the Association where you have serious concerns which you can substantiate.