Licensed Mental Health Professionals

• 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.

Pre-Licensed Mental Health Professionals

• 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.

Graduate Students

• 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 certain documentation (graduate transcript, practicum or internship details, and a letter from their supervisor which includes the supervisor's license information and number) in order to verify their eligibility.

To register for this training, select the session that works best for you, then click the link to either pay in full or enter into a payment plan. You will agree to a Participation Agreement when you register.

After you register, you will receive access to the pre-course materials. The pre-course materials should be completed prior to Day 1 of training. You will also need to purchase Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures, Third Edition by Francine Shapiro, to begin reading prior to the training.

You will be given access to the rest of the course materials once the live trainings begin. You will also participate in consultation groups in between the trainings.

Yes, you will need to attend the entire training live all 6 days. Your attendance will be confirmed by Zoom reports. Attendees must attend all scheduled sessions in their entirety. Please keep your webcam on during all live training sessions. This is the equivalent of “being in the room” for an in-person training and is required for continuing education hours.

This is not your average training to just check off your continuing education for the year.  This training is an investment in your professional development.  It is an investment in you, your clinical skills and your clients.  This training is for professionals who want to treat trauma well, and who recognize that we need additional tools beyond talk therapy to be effective with treating our clients.  This training is focused on leveling-up your practice.  You will have a new way to conceptualize and treat clients, and I have never yet had a trainee regret it!

This training is an EMDRIA-approved Basic Training that provides all of the necessary parts of the training for you, based on EMDRIA’s requirements (EMDR International Association).  You should know that you need to have an EMDRIA approved training to be able to use EMDR and to become certified.  There are shorter trainings out there that do not meet these requirements.

Please see the individual training webpages to learn more about continuing education credits. 

Consultation hours cannot be counted towards clinical supervision time for provisionally licensed clinicians. Consultation services are different from clinical supervision. Consultants do not take responsibility for participants' cases or how participants implement consultation suggestions with clients. Client PHI should not be shared during consultation and consultants do not have access to client PHI. 

During the first training weekend, clinicians sign up for a consulting group that meets virtually a total of five (5) times for 2-hours each (10 total hours of consultation).

Between the two training weekends, consulting groups meet four (4) times. The fifth (5th) and final consulting group call happens within two weeks after the second training weekend.

If you have to cancel your training, you will be able to use any funds paid towards this training to reschedule and join a future training with Trauma Specialists Training Institute.  We do not offer refunds for training registrations. Please click here to review our Rescheduling Policy.

Please reach out to our program administrator, Maria, at [email protected] for any additional questions you may have. We are happy to answer those for you so you feel confident when signing up for our Basic Training!

We may also be reached:

By mail: Trauma Specialists Training Institute, 124 North Court Street, Frederick, MD 21701

By phone: (301) 304-7108

Learn more by visiting our webpage at www.traumaspecialiststraining.com.

After completing registration, you will receive a purchase confirmation email. The email provides a  login link for immediate access to the training and you may begin your training by watching the 1.5 hours of video materials you need to prepare for EMDR Basic Training at your convenience. You may also access the training by clicking login at the top of any of our website pages.

You'll also need to purchase the course textbook, Francine Shapiro's Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures, Third Edition and begin reading prior to the training.

In this training, you will:

• Learn the history, research, and neurobiology of EMDR Therapy.
• Be able to apply all 8 Phases of EMDR Therapy with their clients/patients.
• Be able to adapt EMDR to special populations, giving consideration to diversity, equity and inclusion.
• Learn to apply EMDR with various diagnoses and symptoms.

The training will include didactic teaching segments, discussion segments, and practice segments.  You will also break out into smaller groups in order to practice the EMDR skills learned. This means that you will experience EMDR as a client, a therapist and an observer. This component is key to learning EMDR effectively and part of the requirements of EMDRIA.

The APA/CESA LOs are:

• Participants will describe the origin of EMDR including the research that started it all
• Participants will be able to name three (3) parts of the brain that influence the neurobiology of trauma and the neurobiology of EMDR Therapy.
• Participants will be able to name the important principles of AIP that help conceptualize EMDR Therapy with clients/patients.
• Participants will demonstrate the ability to apply EMDR Therapy to the past, present and future.
• Participants will demonstrate the ability to apply all 8 Phases of EMDR Therapy with their clients/patients.
• Participants will demonstrate the ability to adapt EMDR to special populations, such as children, addictions, and LGBTQIA individuals.
• Participants will demonstrate the ability to apply EMDR with various diagnoses and symptoms, such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, Bipolar Disorder.
• Participants will be able to explain the theory of Structural Dissociation and its implications for Trauma Therapy.
• Participants will be able to list three (3) helpful resources to use with clients who identify as a minority population.

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