Format and Content
It is recommended that clinicians plan on completing all four parts of the training.
Between each part trainees are expected to practice what they have learned by using EMDR under supervision on suitable clients. During training, practical work takes place in groups of 10-12 trainees with the assistance of an experienced facilitator. Trainees are expected to practice the protocol by working on old traumatic memories in dyads as both the client and clinician.
Part 1 Training: highly interactive with a balance between theoretical and practical work and video material.
- How EMDR was developed and its theoretical background
- The AIP model (Adaptive information processing)
- Comprehensive training in all eight phases of the protocol
- Taking a trauma history, assessing treatment contra-indications
- Case conceptualisation and the ‘Three layered approach’
- Strategies to stabilise patients/clients before embarking on treatment
- Dealing with abreactions during treatment as well as with blocked processing
- A basic understanding of dissociation
Part 2 Training: a deeper understanding of the protocol, more complex presentations, stuck processing and specific treatment problems:
- The Cognitive Interweave - when processing stops
- The Touchstone Memory - finding the root memory/ earliest experience feeding current problems
- Coping with affect-tolerance problems and blocked processing
- Installing resources to aid processing
- Phobias and current anxieties and future template
- Supervision
- Clinical practice as a client and clinician, working on a current anxiety or phobia, role plays and video material
Part 3 Training: more challenging and complicated problems and interventions
- Complex trauma and dissociation
- Sexual and other abuse, chronic pain, grief and somatic disorders.
- Children
- The ‘Float forward’ or anticipatory anxiety strategy
- Further supervision and experience of using the protocol
- Role plays and practising advanced emotional containment and ‘benign dissociation’ strategies
Part 4 Training: supervision and revision
- Supervision of completed and promblematic cases
- All attendees are expected to present cases in small group format for discussion and peer group learning
- Review of stuck processing strategies as well as complex presentations
- A personal assessment of each indivdual's level of progress
- All supervision hours during the four treatment parts will count towards accreditation as a practioner as of 1 January 2011 for indivduals starting with part 1 after this date
On completion of all four parts, you will be trained to a level which is recognised throughout Europe and you will receive the EMDR Europe certificate of completion. You can then start the accreditation process as an EMDR UK and Ireland Association and EMDR Europe Association practitioner. Useful information about this will be provided.
