EMDR Consultation
EMDR Consultation for Therapists
In full time private practice since 1999 and EMDR Certified since 2006, Dr. Wright is a well-seasoned clinician with experience as a clinical supervisor of masters-level therapists. She is also an EMDR Consultant-in-Training, offering consultation to therapists who wish to improve their EMDR clinical skills and/or pursue EMDRIA certification.
Benefits of EMDR Consultation
Dr. Wright quickly learned the value of EMDR Consultation after her Basic Training, when she realized she was working with a complex client and did not know how to appropriately treat them. Dr. Wright has participated in both individual and group consultation throughout her career, and understands firsthand the value of an emotionally safe and supportive learning environment in which all questions are viewed as valid.
Whether or not you hope to become certified in EMDR, case consultation is an invaluable process that will strengthen your confidence as an EMDR therapist while it also improves your skills with a variety of clients and presenting issues. As your Consultant, Dr. Wright will provide organization and structure to your meetings, and give handouts and reading materials (or recommend reading materials) as necessary depending on your cases.
Helpful Consultation Topics include:
- Conceptualization of cases through the lens of the Adaptive Information Processing Model.
- EMDR-specific client history taking techniques including how to screen for dissociation.
- Assessing client suitability and readiness for EMDR.
- How to explain EMDR to clients.
- When and how to establish stabilization/affect tolerance tools and what to do if clients have difficulty.
- Case conceptualization including target selection and sequencing; understanding the 3-pronged approach of past/present/future.
- How to move smoothly from target assessment to desensitization and reprocessing.
- When, why, and how to use cognitive interweaves.
- How to deal with looping, stuck processing, and abreactions.
- Ego state and/or internal family systems techniques.
- What to do when difficulties arise during installation of the positive cognition or body scan.
- Technical questions about types of bilateral stimulation, EMDR equipment, body positioning.
- Use of the future template.
- Use of specialized protocols depending on your client/presenting issues.
- Clinician self-care.
Benefits of EMDR Certification
- Increased knowledge base and confidence, which can translate into better client outcomes and increased job satisfaction.
- Signaling to clients and referral sources that you are a well-trained, dedicated EMDR professional
- Membership in EMDRIA and the wider EMDR community (we are a committed, welcoming, and passionate group!).
- Access to high quality, advanced EMDR and trauma trainings.
- Listing on the EMDRIA website “Find a Therapist” section for referral purposes.
Requirements to become certified in EMDR include 20 hours of consultation after you complete Basic Training. Ten of those 20 hours can be in a small group setting; the other 10 must be individual sessions. Consultants-in-Training are allowed to provide 15 of the required 20 hours; the remaining 5 hours must be completed with an EMDRIA Approved Consultant. Dr. Wright is happy to provide referrals to Approved Consultants for those last 5 hours.
You may review the full requirements for becoming Certified in EMDR at www.emdria.org.
Individual EMDR Consultation rate: $80 for 60 minutes. Group rate: $45 for 90 minutes.