EMDR FAQ

The full cost of the training is $1695, inclusive of GST.  This covers your access to the EMDR Library (Over 1.2 GB, 1400 files), six days of training (42 hours) and 10 hours of Case Consultation.  In comparing costings, check that other trainings include the 10 hours of Case Consultation; if they don’t that could cost you an additional $1000 – 1500 on its own.

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If you are enrolled by your employer who is a registered non-profit organisation there is a 15% discount. 

If you chose an instalment payment option you will be sent a separate invoice for each instalment within two business days of your initial registration. Each invoice will have a due date of either one month or two months from the date of your initial registration. Invoices must be paid by the due date. If they are not you, will receive reminders, and if after two reminders your invoice remains unpaid, your place in the training may be reallocated.

Yes you can.  We will need a Purchase Order from your organisation for the registration fee.  We will then register you, and invoice your organisation directly.

We have a maximum of 32 people in each training, and for some parts of the training there will be 4 supervisors, a ratio of 1:8, which is better than the EMDRAA curriculum requires.

EMDR Therapy arose and developed in the context of white privilege. This has led to a historical disadvantage for indigenous Australians, People of Colour, minority cultures, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

My staff and I are committed to cultural humility in seeking to address cultural and anti-racist issues, whilst acknowledging our privileged backgrounds. All clinicians regardless of race, ethnicity, culture, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, and other human differences will be welcomed by our training facility and treated with dignity and respect.

If there are perceived micro aggressions, micro assaults, micro insults, or micro invalidations, please speak to the trainer, or another staff member in private. We ask that you not use the training as a forum for publicly criticising the trainer, staff, or other participants.

This training was developed by Graham Taylor, a white, heterosexual male, New Zealand born therapist of middle class Anglo-Saxon origin, working in a private practice setting in Perth with predominantly white heterosexual clients. Case examples may at times frame this same limited narrative, but we endeavour to offer a very broad range of clinical examples, which include trauma as a result of racism, prejudice, discrimination, inequality, bias, and oppression. It is our experience that EMDR Therapy can be used to address these experiences.

We use a lot of clinical examples in the trainings, so you will almost certainly hear about clients who have similar experiences to yourself.  That is going to be triggering, and so you need to have good affect tolerance and emotional regulation skills.  If you have a therapist, discuss this with them.  If you don’t have the therapist, feel free to contact us and we’ll talk with you about this.

There is not a simple answer to this question. The developer of this training has attended both extraordinarily good and really terrible trainings in both formats. In 2019, before COVID, Therapist Training made the decision to offer online training only, for the following reasons.

• Numbers in the training are smaller, because we do not have to cover the overheads of travel, accommodation, venue and catering.
• A multi-day training such as our four-day Introductory level can be split over a number of days, reducing the cognitive load on trainees, and allowing more time for the consolidation of knowledge and skills.
• For people living outside the capital cities, online training is a much more economical option than travelling for a face-to-face training, which are typically held only in major cities.
• Online trainings offer a distraction free environment in breakout rooms, compared with having many small groups clustered one training a room as is the case with face-to-face training.
• In an online training you have a choice of partner in breakout room exercises, and you can change partners, rather than being stuck with one person for the entire training. Yes, we have had the experience ourselves of being stuck with a “difficult” colleague in a face-to-face environment.
• The online format makes it easier for a trainee to catch up a section of the training they may have missed due to external circumstances.
• The online format allows the utilisation of peer-to-peer exercises between and after training days, for additional practice. These have been optional for the last few years, but we have consistently found that those who take advantage of self-paced additional practice sessions demonstrate higher fidelity to the EMDR protocol, and greater confidence in doing EMDR. They will be a mandatory component for all trainings from 2025.

Ethically, we can’t claim that, and practically we can’t either. It also depends on what you are looking for in a training. If you want a smaller group, many immersive exercises, an open invitation to ask questions and share your thoughts, have access to a huge library of resources, receive a full-text Reference Manual, currently 244 pages, be part of Peer Support group, access Case Consultation sessions as required by the EMDRAA Curriculum included in the training fee, then you will love our training.

If you prefer to learn by lectures and Powerpoint slides, sorry, we don’t use Powerpoint in the training days. If you don’t want to commit to an extensive program of pre-training day preparation (readings, videos, workbook questions and reflections, peer group exercises) and feel uncomfortable in doing exercises with personal experiences (both positive and negative) with a person you’ve only recently met, then our training is not for you.

If you want just the basic EMDRAA Curriculum, our training Is not for you. It’s not called Basic and Beyond for nothing.

Also, if you want to do just the Introductory Level training, our training is not for you. We do not permit people to register for just the Introductory level. EMDR is a complex skill to master, and the Introductory Level training is not enough for some clients. You sign up for the full Training,: Introductory and Advanced trainings (6 days total) and Case Consultation sessions (10 hours) which can be completed in 4 months or spread over as much as 18 months.

What we can say is that between 2019 and August 2024 we have conducted more than 190 publicly advertised trainings, and many in-house trainings for both Government and non-government agencies. This is more trainings than any other EMDR training organisation in Australia. Is that “better”? That’s not for us to say, it’s for you to decide.

We would encourage you to ask around. There are Australian EMDR Facebooks groups on which people will offer their opinions.

Trainees provide anonymous feedback. Click here to read a sample of evaluations from 2023 trainings. Nothing has been edited or added.

The training was originally accredited by the EMDR International Association in 1996, Graham Taylor was amongst the very first batch of Accredited EMDR Trainers in the world.  Accreditation was transferred to the EMDR Association of Australia in 1998, when that organisation formed, and the training has been continuously accredited since then, longer than any other EMDR training.

Each of the six training days is seven hours of active training, so 6 x 7 = 42.  Add to that 10 hours of Case Consultation, and add to that around 15 hours of self-paced preparation for the training days (you could do more).  That totals 67 hours minimum.  That works out at $25 per hour. 

Accreditation is managed by the EMDR Association of Australia, or a parallel EMDR Association if you live in another country.  The standards for Accreditation are much the same worldwide: one year of clinical experience after completing your training, a case log of 25 clients treated, some additional EMDR Professional Development, and some additional Case Consultation.  So the short answer is no, there are more requirements beyond the Basic Training in order to be granted Accredited Practitioner status.   You can however say that you have completed an Accredited EMDR Training.

Yes it does, 10 hours.  But because of the legal definition of supervision adopted by AHPRA, we cannot take legal responsibility for your work, so we call it Case Consultation instead.  Note that 10 hours of Case Consultation is a curriculum requirement of EMDRAA, but the Therapist Training program is the only accredited training in Australia that includes these 10 hours as an integral part of the training, covered by the training fee.

The EMDRAA curriculum has been copied from the EMDR International Association, which (in spite of the name) is the US EMDR Association.  In the USA any mental health professional will have a Masters degree as a minimum, and a two year internship.  So in the USA a certain level of experience knowledge and skills can be assumed. 

That is not the case in Australia.  Days 1 and 2 of our training cover trauma informed assessment, a broad range of resourcing and stabilising strategies (well beyond the curriculum requirements), and an emphasis on skills in case conceptualisation and treatment planning.  These constitute the foundation for effective trauma therapy.  And you will be practising these skills with clients for four weeks before you get to the “finger waving” part of EMDR in Days 3 and 4.  Other Australian trainings start teaching this part of EMDR earlier.  We do not think that this is appropriate, and some would argue that it’s unethical to teach EMDR without first teaching the foundations of safe and effective trauma therapy.

In spite of this, our training fee is less than all other trainings, and it also includes the 10 hours of Case Consultation required by the curriculum.

The phases of EMDR defined by its developer, Francine Shapiro, include assessment, resourcing, stabilisation, case conceptualisation and treatment planning.  So you will be practising all these aspects of EMDR for four weeks after Days 1 and 2, before you get to the “finger waving” part.

We cover all the requirements of the EMDRIA and EMDRAA curriculum.  This is the “Basic” part of the training.  “Beyond” covers additional theoretical and conceptual foundations of trauma therapy, a broad range of trauma informed assessment strategies, a broad range of resourcing and stabilisation strategies for more emotionally dysregulated or dissociative clients, depowered versions of standard EMDR more suitable for dysregulated or dissociative clients, and considerable emphasis on the behavioural change aspect of EMDR, often given little attention in other trainings. 

We run as many Advanced trainings as we do Introductory trainings.  If you look at other EMDR training websites you will see that they do far fewer Advanced trainings compared with Introductory ones.  You need to ask yourself why that would be.

If you have done our training before, you may repeat it for a 33% discount.

You need to have completed the Introductory and Advanced training days within a 12 month period, and the Case Consultation within two years of the start of your Introductory training.

Yes, no exceptions allowed.

Case Consultation is what many people call supervision, but without the legal requirements imposed by AHPRA.  You can ask questions about any aspect of your clinical work, and you will be required to present summaries of your case conceptualisation, treatment plan and treatment sessions. 

Yes.  Your Case Consultation has to be conducted by an EMDRAA Accredited Consultant.  There is a list of them on the EMDRAA website.  If you choose to do your Case Consultation outside of the sessions provided by Therapist Training, you will need to bear the cost of this yourself.

Yes, at a fee negotiated with your chosen EMDRAA Accredited Consultant.

You can, but because we run limited numbers in each group, to change trainings within 28 days before Day One, or after Day One we have to take one full seat out of another training group.  Understandably, there is a fee for this; it is 60% of the full training fee.  Therapist Training will bear the 40% loss.

If you cancel more than 28 days before Day One of your training, there is a cancellation fee of $300, to take account of the vast amount of training material provided to you upon registration.  There are no refunds for cancellations closer than 28 days to the start your scheduled Day One, or after Day One.  

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