Accredited EMDR therapy training is limited to:

 

Mental Health Professionals

Clinical Psychologists (Registered with HCPC or Psychological Society Ireland)

Counselling Psychologists (Registered with HCPC)

Educational Psychologists (Registered with HCPC)

Forensic Psychologists (Registered with HCPC)

Psychiatrists (MRC Psych, SpR)

Registered Mental Health Nurses (NMC) and Registered Social Workers who:

• Have mental health training, can recognise and assess common mental health problems and have experience of working in a mental health setting, and
• Have training and a minimum of two years experience of providing one-to-one psychotherapy, either as part of their professional training or in addition to it, and
• Have provided a reference from their clinical supervisor confirming the above.

Clinical & Counselling Psychologists in final year of training are acceptable with letter of recommendation from their supervisor

 

Counsellors/Psychotherapists

MUST hold accreditation OR have provisional accreditation (BABCP only) by one of the following professional bodies:

• Association of Christian Counsellors (Accredited Counsellor – AC)
• BABCP, BACP, UKCP
• British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC)
• Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP)
• Irish Association of Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy (IAHIP)
• National Counselling Society Accredited Professional (MNCS Accred Prof) grade
• Federation of Drug and Alcohol Practitioners (FDAP) who are NCAC accredited
• Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP)
• COSCA
• COSRT

 

General Practitioners

Registered with the General Medical Council (GMC) who are experienced in psychotherapy and psychological trauma and are accredited counsellors or psychotherapists or working towards a psychotherapy accreditation

 

Art Psychotherapists and Occupational Therapists who:

• Registered with HCPC.
• Have mental health training, can recognise and assess common mental health problems and have experience of working in a mental health setting.
• Have training and a minimum of two years’ experience of providing one-to-one psychotherapy, either as part of their professional training or in addition to it.
• Have provided a reference from their clinical supervisor confirming the above.

 

Mental Health professionals from Countries outside of the UK and Ireland

Are requested to submit a letter from their national EMDR Association agreeing to them undertaking their training in the UK and stating that they fulfil the eligibility to train in EMDR criteria for their country of origin.

Applicants from countries with no national EMDR Association are scrutinised on a case-by-case basis. They need to follow EMDR Association UK eligibility criteria broadly, ie they should be a mental health professional who is accredited/registered with a governing body in their own country.

In either case, external applicants who are resident in the UK are not eligible to train in EMDR or practice EMDR in the UK unless they also meet the UK eligibility criteria above.