EMDR Consultation — Find a Consultant, Track Your Hours

For EMDRIA Certification in EMDR, clinicians must complete 20 hours of consultation with an EMDRIA-Approved Consultant after basic training. Of those 20 hours:

• At least 10 hours must be individual (1-on-1 with the consultant)
• The remaining 10 may be group consultation (up to 8 consultees per group)
• Hours must cover a minimum of 50 EMDR sessions across 25+ clients
• Hours must be completed within a reasonable timeframe of basic training

Most clinicians dramatically under-document their hours and have to reconstruct dates and consultant names months later. EMDR Assist's Consultation Tracker logs each hour the moment it happens, separates group from individual automatically, and produces a clean PDF your consultant can sign.

Not every EMDRIA-Approved Consultant is the right fit. The good ones combine three things: deep protocol fidelity, comfort with the populations you treat (complex trauma, dissociation, kids, couples), and a consultation style that matches how you learn.

Questions to ask any prospective EMDR consultant:

• How long have you been EMDRIA-Approved, and what populations do you specialize in?
• Do you offer individual, group, or both — and what's the rate for each?
• Will you review session video or only verbal case presentations?
• How do you handle blocked processing, dissociation, and cognitive interweaves in consultation?
• Will you sign off on hours toward EMDRIA Certification?

Our consultant directory lists EMDRIA-Approved Consultants and Consultants-in-Training (CITs) with their specialties, group availability, and rates.

Individual consultation is the most tailored format — uninterrupted time to walk through your hardest cases, review your protocol fidelity, and get personalized feedback. EMDRIA requires at least 10 of your 20 hours to be individual.

Group consultation (up to 8 consultees) is more affordable, exposes you to a wider range of clinical scenarios, and builds a peer community. Most consultants charge $40–$75 per group hour vs. $125–$200 per individual hour.

A typical EMDRIA certification path uses 10 individual + 10 group hours, completed over 6–18 months alongside your first 50+ EMDR sessions.

Once you're EMDRIA-Certified for two years and have completed the additional Consultant-in-Training requirements, you can apply to become an EMDRIA-Approved Consultant and start your own group. EMDR Assist gives consultants a free dashboard to manage consultees, log hours per person, and issue signed hour certificates.

See EMDR Assist for Consultants for the consultant workflow.

• EMDR International Association. EMDRIA Certification Requirements. Accessed 2026. (Source for the 20-hour consultation requirement and the individual/group split.)
• EMDR International Association. EMDR Consultation. Accessed 2026.
• Shapiro, F. (2018). Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy (3rd ed.). Guilford Press.
• Cost ranges are EMDR Assist's own 2026 survey of publicly listed consultant rates, not an EMDRIA figure.