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 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 your payment, with your name as a reference, via bank transfer to:
EMDR Association UK
Sort code 089299
Account 65442917
IBAN GB21 CPBK 0892 9965 4429 17
Application forms along with supporting documents need to be scanned as one document and must be sent by email to accreditationadmin@emdrassociation.org.uk
(Please note completion by a supervising consultant who is a close family member will not be accepted.)
Next Accreditation Committee Meetings in 2021:
14th January, 18th 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. Please do not wait until the last minute to submit your application – applications arriving on the day of the deadline will only be circulated to the committee to review and process if they are completely in order. If anything is missing, incorrect or unclear it will be carried over to the next meeting.
Find an 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 your payment, using your full name as a reference, to EMDR Association UK
Sort code 089299
Account 65442917
IBAN GB21 CPBK 0892 9965 4429 17
Application forms and scanned supporting documents must be sent by email only (in one single document) to: accreditationadmin@
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. Please do not wait until the last minute to submit your application – applications arriving on the day of the deadline will only be circulated to the committee to review and process if they are completely in order. If anything is missing, incorrect or unclear it will be carried over to the next meeting.
Applicants must provide evidence of CPD event attendance.
The Association offers 2 four-day Consultants Training per annum. Covered in the Consultants Training is a review of the Accreditation Process and Competency Framework, EMDR theory review and teaching the consultation process which is assessed through live practice.
It is recommended that consultants-in-training attend the Consultants Training after approximately 1 – 1.5 years of becoming accredited as an EMDR Practitioner to gain the optimum learning from attendance at the Consultants Training.
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.
Dates for forthcoming Consultants Training are :
10 – 13 March 2021 in London
If you require further details contact: info@emdrassociation.org.uk
14th January , 18th 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 UK 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.
Scanned supporting documents must be sent by email only to accreditationadmin@
Please submit your application as one continuous document
Re-accreditation criteria and application form (updated Aug 2021) (PDF)
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 your payment, using your full name as a reference, to EMDR Association UK
Sort code 089299
Account 65442917
IBAN GB21 CPBK 0892 9965 4429 17
Re-accreditation Committee meetings for 2021 will be held on the following dates:
14th January, 18th 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 an EMDR Accredited training and you can count cases from the point that you complete level 1 of the standard 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. You need to be a member of the Association to become accredited.
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 standard 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 /reaccreditation
You can count cases for which you have received supervision by an Accredited EMDR Consultant if that consultant provides written confirmation of the supervision, whether that was provided in individual or group supervision. Group supervision hours are counted in the same way as individual supervision hours. Your consultant will expect you to make a significant contribution if you are to count the hours.
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.
If you are unable to get a reference from your previous supervisor, you may only count the early cases if you discuss them in detail with your new supervisor who is then able to sign them off.
No. Only supervision by an EMDR Europe Accredited Consultant is recognised for accreditation. (Though Peer Supervision can be helpful in the absence of consultant supervision.)
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 supervisees 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 recordings of your work OR have seen in vivo sessions which demonstrate your competency in the use of all eight phases of 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 demonstrate your competency in the use of all eight phases of 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. Ideally you should present a number of videos over time showing various aspects of your work.
CPD credits are awarded by the EMDR UK Assoc for workshops/ conferences which fulfil the Association criteria for CPD credits. Since the start of the Covid 19 pandemic the Association has awarded credits for facilitated EMDR workshops/ conferences which are being delivered on online platforms. These are EMDR CPD events which prior to the pandemic members would have attended in person.
The EMDR UK Assoc does not award EMDR CPD credits for any pre recorded internet based courses. Such courses may be awarded credits by other organisations and you may include some credits when applying for EMDR reaccreditation.
One third of the credits required overall (that is 25 out of 75) may be gained from online courses which have CPD points , but no more than one third of the EMDR specific credits may be gained on line.
From January 2020 the number of credits required for reaccreditation as practitioners and consultants was increased to a minimum of 75 CPD credits, 50 of which must be EMDR specific CPD credits. This is an increase from the previous requirement of 50 credits overall, 25 of which were EMDR specific. The additional 25 credits now needed should be from trauma related CPD.
This increase will be introduced during the next 5 years as detailed below:
Accred. due during 2020- 5 additional credits.
Accred. due during 2021- 10 additional credits
Accred. due during 2022- 15 additional credits
Accred. due during 2023 – 20 additional credits.
Accred. due during 2024- 25 additional credits.
Applicants seeking re accreditation as Child and Adolescent Practitioners and Consultants were previously required to have a gained a minimum of 10 of the 25 EMDR specific CPD credits needed from Child and Adolescent focused workshops. By 2024 -5 a minimum of 20 of the required minimum of 50 EMDR specific credits will be from workshops for those working with children and adolescents. Credits required will increase from 10 credits by 2 credits each year until 2024-5.
Write to the Association mitigation lead.( The Association Administrator will provide contact details.) A member of the committee is responsible for considering all mitigating circumstances and will do so without breaching confidentiality. 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 although the Association does try to notify all accredited members when reaccreditation is due. The committee does exercise some flexibility in these circumstances. If your membership has lapsed for some time you may have to reapply for accreditation.
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 implicit that the role of EMDR Consultant 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.