Completing EMDR Basic Training is a major milestone. Since EMDR Basic Training with EMDR Professional Training is 57 hours of training with included case consultation, the completion of this program allows you to practice EMDR therapy with clients and start seeing the benefits.
But professional growth and excellence in your practice shouldn’t stop when training ends.
Clinicians who grow the most after EMDR Basic Training and move forward to use EMDR therapy effectively and consistently are those who stay connected through consultation, continuing education, and to other EMDR professionals working through the same clinical questions. That connection is what EMDR Professional Training’s membership community provides.
This is not another course to check off. It is a structured way to keep learning, stay supported, and strengthen your practice for the long haul. Here is what that looks like in practice.
The EMDR Professional Training membership community is ongoing access, not a single event. Where EMDR Basic Training is a defined course with a start and end date, our membership community gives you continued resources, study groups, and professional connection long after your basic training ends.
Think of it as infrastructure for growth. Instead of researching your next steps alone every time a hard case or a new specialty interest comes up, you have a place to turn to and people who have been there. It is a long-term investment in your clinical and career development.
Here is what consistent community involvement actually changes in your practice.
You get continued exposure to new clinical thinking and evolving approaches instead of relying on what you learned once, years ago. Regular exposure also reinforces the foundational EMDR therapy concepts that are easy to let slip once daily practice takes over.
A membership community focused on your practice of EMDR therapy gives you real opportunities for clinical skill development: applying EMDR principles to situations your training did not cover, learning directly from experienced clinicians, and building genuine confidence through continued practice.
Membership allows you access to perspectives from experienced EMDR therapy professionals, sharpening your clinical decision-making in ways solo practice cannot. Our online membership community affords ongoing access to discussions, questions, and answers that help your development as a clinician.
Learning from other therapists' real experiences, and sharing your own, builds professional relationships that outlast your initial training. It also reduces the isolation that comes with specialized clinical work.
Our EMDR membership community helps you discover advanced training opportunities, fulfill continuing education requirements, and develop the specialized interests your caseload is steering you toward. It opens pathways for learning with no end date.
Training, certification, and continuing professional development are three different pieces of your growth as a clinician. Training qualifies you to practice EMDR therapy. Certification, granted by EMDRIA, is a separate, voluntary credential built on documented experience, consultation hours, and CE credit.
Community membership does not replace either one, but it supports the consultation and education pieces that make the certification path, if you choose to pursue it, considerably more manageable. At EMDR Professional Training’s membership, we offer study groups to bolster your clinical and professional growth in a supportive environment.
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This kind of community serves a wide range of clinicians:
As you start your work in EMDR therapy training, you’ll quickly notice that this is a journey with many needed supports, resources, and educational pieces along the way.
Your caseload will change. Your interests will shift as you gain experience. A professional community lets your expertise keep developing alongside them, instead of stalling out once the initial excitement of training fades.
Our membership community at EMDR Professional Training exists to provide continuity once formal training ends. Ongoing resources, peer connection, and study groups let you keep developing real expertise, not just a certificate.
Membership is not a requirement. It’s an opportunity for clinicians who want continued EMDR learning to be part of how they practice, not something they did once and moved past.
Ready to keep growing? Explore EMDR Professional Training's membership community for resources, support, study groups, and advanced training opportunities built for EMDR clinicians.
An ongoing professional development structure, distinct from a single training course, that combines resources, study groups, and connection with other EMDR clinicians over time.
EMDR Basic Training covers foundational protocol, not every clinical presentation you will encounter. Continued support, connection, study groups, and resources keep your skills and clinical judgment current as your caseload evolves.
Ongoing access to peer connection, current clinical resources, study groups, discounted advanced trainings, along with reduced professional isolation and a structured path for continued growth.
Yes. It supports the consultation hours and continuing education that feed into certification and advanced specialization, while keeping you connected to other practicing EMDR clinicians.
Connection with peers as well as experienced trainers and consultants, study groups and current resources, all within a space built for licensed mental health professionals.
