DRAFT FOR EMDR EUROPE CONSULTANT TRAINING
The applicant has fulfilled the following pre-requirements
Licensing/Registration .a
Applicant is licensed/registered as Mental health practitioner/clinician in own
country
Ethical standing and Integrity .b
Promotes integrity in science, teaching and practice in psychotherapy 
Adheres to ethical and professional standards of EMDR-Europe 
Experience .c
Minimum 2 years post certification experience as an EMDR-therapist
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with evidence of the treatment of 75 patients (s. 3 II) and over 300
treatment hours with EMDR as corroborated by accredited supervisors
Previous supervision experience 
References regarding personal, clinical and supervision skills from two 
accredited EMDR-consultants/supervisors
Standing in the trauma field .d
At least 50% of professional time in clinical practice 
Has treated a variety of cases including acute and complex trauma and 
chronic complex dissociative disorders and visited workshops covering
the new developments in the treatment of those patient groups
Sufficient standing within the clinical and trauma field (clinical 
reference, publication, general reputation)
Evidence of ongoing continual education in the new developments of 
the field of psychological trauma as shown by conference
presence/presentations or publications
Video Check .e
Must supply video evidence of clinical work (at least two cases) to the 
national bodies (if not applicable: international bodies) who approve
the work as meeting the highest professional standards in the
application of EMDR.
The applicant has taken a formal supervisor-training with a recognized
EMDR-training institution and participated in a training program that
consists of at least 30 teaching hours.
The training program must include
Treatment Strategy: .1
Diagnostics, therapeutic relationship, psycho-education, neurobiology,
treatment planning, how to develop and give a rationale for the treatment plans
of:
Acute trauma patients, single incident PTSD patients, complex PTSD patients
with significant comorbidity, patients with DESNOS and DID indications,
contra-indications and potential dangers in the application of EMDR,
stabilization techniques, self-care, ethics and EMDR, oorganization of health
care and major international organizations in the field of psychological trauma
Teaching format: lectures, video, manuals, exercises
EMDR protocol: .2
Evidence base of the EMDR-protocols, Standard and often used experimental
EMDR-protocols and their indications, Cognitions, procedure, closing
techniques, safe place, resource development, interweaves, phobia protocol,
special techniques for complex trauma ( wedging, affect bridge, container,
resource focusing, circling, absorption technique), how to deal practically with
a decompensated trauma patient
Teaching format: lectures, video, manuals, role play, minilectures
Supervisor skills,: .3
Supervised supervision (at least 10 hours)
Attitude, pacing and dosing, common mistakes of beginners in the use of
EMDR and how to deal with them, difficult supervisees
Teaching format: lectures, video, manuals, role play, minilectures
Duration:
The certification lasts for 5 years and is renewable if the above
conditions still apply and if the applicant provides evidence of 25 hrs of
continual education in the EMDR-Method to the national body
Treatment Strategy: .4
Teaching format: lectures, video, manuals, exercises
Overview and Diagnostics
Trauma-Models, Etiology o
Neurobiology o
Type 1 and Type 2 Traumatization o
Acute and chronic Traumatization o
DSM IV and ICD 10: o
Acute stress Disorder .i
Adjustment Disorder .ii
PTSD .iii
Dissociative Disorders .iv
Co-Morbidity .v
Psycho-education
Illusions of safety o
Characteristics of trauma o
Trauma-responses o
Self-healing system o
Treatment planning
Therapeutic relationship o
Transference and Counter-transference 
Treatment frames, principles, and boundaries 
Phases of Treatment o
Stabilization techniques .i
Container 
Safe place 
Inner helper etc. 
Trauma-confrontation techniques besides EMDR .ii
Hypnotherapeutic techniques o
Cognitive-behavioral o
Integration phase .iii
How to develop and give a rationale for the treatment plans of:
Acute trauma patients o
Single incident PTSD patients o
Complex PTSD patients with significant co morbidity o
Patients with DESNOS and DID indications o
Contra-indications and potential dangers in the application of EMDR
Self-care for trauma therapists
Ethics and EMDR
Organization of health care and major international organizations in the field
of psychological trauma
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EMDR protocol:
Teaching format: lectures, video, manuals, role play, mini-lectures
Evidence base of the EMDR-protocols
Literature o
Research o
Books o
Standard EMDR-protocol and procedure
Setting .1
Bilateral stimulation techniques .2
Target selection .3
Present 
Past 
Future 
Assessment .4
Image 
Negative cognition 
positive cognition 
VoC 
Emotions 
SUD 
Body location 
Processing (Desensitization) .5
Installation of positive cognition .6
Body scan .7
Closing techniques .8
Complete session 
Incomplete session 
Reevaluation .9
Strategies for blocked processing .10
Blocking Beliefs .11
Interweaves .12
Often used additional and experimental EMDR-protocols and their indications
Safe place .1
Resource development .2
Resource focusing .3
Wedging, absorption technique .4
Float back technique (affect bridge) .5
Phobia protocol .6
Protocol for children .7
Protocol for acute trauma .8
Special techniques for complex trauma .9
How to deal practically with a decompensated trauma patient
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Supervisor skills: .5
Teaching format: lectures, video, manuals, role play, minilectures
Supervised supervision (at least 10 hours)
Attitude 
Pacing and dosing 
Common mistakes of beginners in the use of EMDR and how to deal with 
them
Difficult supervisees 
Introduction of resourcing techniques 
Supervision of self-experiencing vignettes 
Difficulties in “mixed – groups” of therapists: 
Adult – children therapists 
Cognitive-behavioral – psychodynamic therapist 
Body therapists 