EMDRIA- Approved Basic-training Levels 1&2

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This training is offered over 6 days 8:30-4:30 (PST) spread over three months to allow you to learn each step and then take it to the clients in your practice, as well as a consultation scheduled after the training has been completed

January 20th and 21st

February 10th and 11th

March 3rd and 4th

This EMDRIA-approved basic training is live and interactive via zoom

It meets all of the requirements outlined by EMDRIA, including ten hours of consultation. 

Kate Day is an EMDRIA-approved Trainer who is passionate about EMDR and has designed this training to help therapists understand the big-picture perspective of how EMDR works. so there is no need to memorize a litany of scripts and protocols. Rather, trainees will learn what happens within the client, when to stay out of the way, and when to facilitate the flow of the process. 

This training will include 20 hours of lecture centered on the foundational aspects of EMDR; including how it was discovered, relevant research, how it works, and the 8 Phases of EMDR. Kate will help you understand the big picture of why EMDR works and what your role as a therapist is in your clients' process.

In addition, Kate will cover advanced techniques for complex clients and specialized procedures for anxiety, depression, addiction, as well as dysfunctional ways of behaving, thinking, and relating. 

This training will also include 20 hours of real time EMDR practicum. You will get a personal understanding of how it works from the perspective of the client as well as sufficient practice as an EMDR therapist to feel confident to take it to your own practice. 

Kate will teach you how to update the old, dysfunctional childhood programming that is creating dysfunction in their current adult lives and relationships.  The programs that your clients create out of necessity in their families of origin, to avoid punishment and earn affection are still running in the background and causing much of the presenting problems that your clients show up with. Reprocessing the relationships with caregivers leads to immense healing in their lives.

Unprocessed trauma is stored maladaptively in the brain, trapping a part of the client in it until it can be processed. You will learn how to free this inner child by draining out the pain and adding the current adult perspective and understanding of these relationships to the child part. This alone corrects much of the dysfunction the client is repeating in their adult life.

This training is for licensed mental health professionals or provisionally licensed mental health professionals under the supervision of a licensed professional. If you’d like more information on training eligibility and requirements please visit the Training Eligibility section below.

 The following information is taken directly from EMDRIA regarding training eligibility. For more information please visit their EMDR Basic Training FAQs.

(hyperlink: https://www.emdria.org/training-faqs/)

• Qualifying medical doctors must be licensed to practice in their state or province.
• Qualifying advanced practice registered nurses must have a Master of Science in Nursing (or higher) with a specialization in psychiatric mental health nursing and must be licensed to practice through their state board or province.
• Qualifying Mental Health Clinicians must have a master’s degree in the mental health field (Counseling, Marriage Family Therapy, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Psychiatry, Social Work) or related mental health discipline and be licensed to practice through their state board or province.
• Individuals who only hold a chemical dependency or substance abuse license are not eligible as these licenses generally do not allow for a mental health scope of practice. 

• These are clinicians who are actively pursuing a mental health license through their state board (or province) while working under a licensed supervisor. Some of these license types include associate, intern, limited, provisional, temporary and pre-license.
• Qualifying pre-licensed mental health clinicians must have a master's degree in the mental health field (Counseling, Marriage Family Therapy, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Psychiatry, Social Work) or related mental health discipline and must be actively pursuing a full license through their state board (or province) while working under a licensed supervisor.
• Individuals who only hold a chemical dependency or substance abuse license are not eligible as these licenses generally do not allow for a mental health scope of practice. 

• Qualifying graduate students must be enrolled in a master’s or doctoral program in the mental health field (Counseling, Marriage Family Therapy, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Psychiatry, Psychiatric Nursing, Social Work) or related mental health discipline. Students must have completed their core graduate academic coursework and must be in the practicum/internship portion of their graduate program. First year graduate students are not eligible. Graduate students must be on a licensing track and working under the supervision of a fully licensed mental health clinician.

Graduate students who would like to take an EMDR Training will need to submit documentation, in the form of a letter from their supervisor, in order to verify their eligibility. The letter must reflect that the student is on the licensing track, working under the supervision of a fully licensed mental health clinician, include their practicum or internship details, and include the supervisor’s license information and number. The letter should appear on the supervisor’s office letterhead and include a signature as well as contact information. Students do not need to provide EMDRIA with any documentation unless specifically asked to do so by EMDRIA staff. 

Please email documentation to hardknoxcounselling@hotmail.com

If you meet the eligibility criteria, please fill out all required areas below so we can get to know you a little better. Feel free to add your own comments to tell us a little about yourself. Then scroll down to the next session on this page to submit payment via PayPal