Consultant and Consultee Responsibilities

This packet outlines the core competencies for EMDRIA Approved Consultants™ and their consultees, detailing the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and ethical foundations required to support effective, developmentally informed EMDR consultation.

This packet includes consultant and consultee responsibilities in the following areas:

• Foundational Consultation (EMDR Basic Training)
• Certification Consultation
• Consultant in Training Consultation

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Consultant and Consultee Responsibilities – Foundational Consultation (EMDR Basic Training)

The chart below describes the consultant and consultee responsibilities before, during and after EMDR basic training consultation.

Before Consultation Begins

Consultant Responsibilities:

• Confirm agreement with the EMDRIA Approved Trainer™ to provide consultation hours.
• Verify the trainer’s requirements around procedures, forms, and documentation for tracking hours.

Consultee Responsibilities:

• Ensure the consultant is approved by the EMDRIA Approved Trainer™ to provide consultation for their training.
• Review consultation expectations, procedures, and documentation process.

During Consultation

Consultant Responsibilities:

• Identify areas needing additional development and adjust focus as needed.
• Provide clear, direct feedback on the progress of stated goals.

Consultee Responsibilities:

• Seek clarification about expectations for competency and completion.
• Provide behavioral samples for feedback.
• Reflect on feedback and discuss progress of stated goals.

After Consultation Ends

Consultant Responsibilities:

• Follow EMDRIA Approved Trainer’s™ procedures to document and sign off on consultation hours.
• Provide information about EMDRIA™ credential pathways and ongoing development opportunities.

Consultee Responsibilities:

• Submit all required documentation for completed consultation hours to the EMDRIA Approved Trainer™.
• Seek ongoing professional growth through workshops, reading, and engagement with current EMDR research.

 

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Consultant and Consultee Responsibilities – Certification Consultation

The chart below describes the consultant and consultee responsibilities before,
during and after certification consultation.

Before Consultation Begins

Consultant Responsibilities:

• Confirm that the consultee can provide you with a copy of their EMDRIA™ Approved EMDR Basic Training final completion certificate.
• Review EMDRIA’s™ certification requirements.
• Confirm that the hours are for the certification consultation requirement.
• Establish consultation goals, structure, documentation procedures and expectations for case presentation and feedback in a written agreement/contract.
• Clarify ethical guidelines, boundaries and confidentiality in the consultation process.

Consultee Responsibilities:

• Confirm that the consultant is a current EMDRIA Approved Consultant™ or EMDRIA Approved Consultant in Training™.
• Review EMDRIA’s™ certification requirements.
• Identify personal learning goals for the consultation process.
• Provide copy of your EMDRIA™ Approved EMDR Basic Training final completion certificate to your consultant.
• Complete the Consultant in Training Declaration Form.
• Identify personal learning goals and areas for growth as a future consultant.
• Commit to active participation, including case presentations, reflection on clinical application and focus and deliberate practice to work toward learning goals.

During Consultation

Consultant Responsibilities:

• Identify areas needing additional development and adjust focus as needed.
• Provide clear, direct feedback on the progress of stated goals.

Consultee Responsibilities:

• Seek clarification about expectations for competency and completion.
• Provide behavioral samples for feedback.
• Reflect on feedback and discuss progress of stated goals.

After Consultation Ends

Consultant Responsibilities:

• Follow the process to verify the number of hours and provide recommendation for certification (if applicable).
• Offer formative and summative feedback on professional strengths and areas for continued growth.

Consultee Responsibilities:

• Follow the process to submit documentation of the hours for the EMDRIA Certified Therapist™
  application.
• Continue ongoing learning through advanced workshops, peer consultation and engagement with the EMDRIA™ community.
• Integrate feedback into ongoing EMDR clinical practices.

 

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Consultant and Consultee Responsibilities – Consultant in Training Consultation

The chart below describes the consultant and consultee responsibilities before,
during and after consultant in training consultation.

Before Consultation Begins

Consultant Responsibilities:

• Establish a clear consultation plan outlining goals, structure, documentation procedures and evaluation criteria.
• Clarify expectations, role boundaries and establish an agreement/contract for consultation of consultation.
• Confirm that the CIT meets EMDRIA™ prerequisites to begin the consultant in training process (e.g., current certification credential, completes CIT declaration form).

Consultee (CIT) Responsibilities:

• Confirm that the consultant is a current EMDRIA Approved Consultant™.
• Review EMDRIA’s™ consultant requirements.
• Complete the CIT declaration form.
• Identify personal learning goals and areas for growth as a future consultant.

During Consultation

Consultant Responsibilities:

• Identify areas needing additional development and adjust focus as needed.
• Provide clear, direct feedback on the progress of stated goals.

Consultee Responsibilities:

• Seek clarification about expectations for competency and completion.
• Provide behavioral samples for feedback.
• Reflect on feedback and discuss progress of stated goals.

After Consultation Ends

Consultant Responsibilities:

• Follow the procedures and process to verify the number of hours and provide a recommendation for the consultant credential (if applicable).
• Offer formative and summative feedback on consultant competences using the role of educator, evaluator and motivator.
• Provide guidance on next steps in the EMDRIA Approved Consultant™ application process and encourage continued engagement in the EMDRIA™ community.

Consultee Responsibilities:

• Follow the process to submit documentation of the hours for the EMDRIA Approved Consultant™ application.
• Engage in ongoing professional development, including keeping up with relevant literature and
  research to refine consultation competencies and leadership within the EMDR community.