(**These are not rates for EMDR Therapy services for clients, but rates for EMDR Clinicians who are seeking consultation services. For Therapy Session rates, please visit This Page**).

Welcome! As a Qualified Supervisor in Florida for Mental Health Counselor licensure since 2013, I’ve been passionate about helping clinicians develop their skills. To further my own skillset, I was trained in EMDR by Roy Kiessling, founder of EMDR Consulting, in early 2017. Continuing that passion for helping clinicians hone their skills, after becoming Certified in 2019 I became an EMDRIA Consultant-in-Training (CIT) in early 2020 and became a full Approved Consultant as of 05/01/2022. I am also a Coach (Facilitator) for EMDR Basic Trainings provided by EMDR Consulting, LLC and am also able to provide consultation toward the 10 hours required for Basic Training for those trained by EMDR Consulting.

If you have completed EMDR Basic Training through an EMDRIA-Approved program, meaning all 40 hours of lecture and 10 hours of consultation, you are eligible to begin working toward EMDR Certification. As an Approved Consultant, I can provide EMDR consultation for all 20 hours required by EMDRIA for certification. At least 10 of these 20 hours must be individual (1:1), and the other 10 can be earned in either individual or group format.

If you’ve completed the Certification process and you’re interested in becoming a Consultant-in-Training, I’d be happy to discuss Consultation of Consultation as well.

Please scroll to the bottom of the page for current Consultation Rates and contact information.

Why Get Certified?

While certification is not presently required after fully completing the basic training to practice EMDR, the additional consultation while working toward certification can help to strengthen skills even further. I know many folks who aren’t Certified that are amazing EMDR clinicians. I also know many more that took Basic Training and then stopped using EMDR because they didn’t have the ongoing support to feel confident in using it, especially as cases grew more complex.

Additionally, EMDRIA holds that Consultation is not the same as Clinical Case Supervision. Rather, the focus is on proficiency in using the 8 phases and 3 prongs of the standard EMDR protocol, as well as identifying when it may be necessary to introduce modifications.

Certification requires a minimum of 20 hours of consultation, however, there is a possibility that more hours may be needed in order to assess progress and provide a letter of recommendation. Assessing progress may include reviewing EMDR session examples of all phases, including recordings, transcripts, or case presentation forms.

**Simply attending consultation for the required hours is not enough to earn the recommendation, and this would be discussed earlier in the process if indicated. The process also includes working with a minimum of 25 clients, across a total of 50 sessions, utilizing the 8 phases of EMDR. There are also required EMDRIA CE requirements, and you must have your full independent license in your state/jurisdiction to apply, not an associate/registered intern status.

(Please Note: PESI, The Bodymind Institute, Green Cross Academy of Traumatology, Maiberger Institute, and Parnell Institute are NOT EMDRIA Approved Training Providers – per EMDRIA’s website. This means that EMDR basic trainings taken through them do not count toward the EMDRIA certification requirement).

See all other requirements and the FAQ for Certification, including additional EMDRIA Continuing Education and State Licensure requirements here: EMDR Certification FAQ

Post-Certification: Consultant-in-Training to became an EMDRIA Approved Consultant

Once you are fully certified, you are eligible to become a Consultant-in-Training (CIT) to begin working toward Approved Consultant status.

This process includes a minimum of 20 hours of Consultation of Consultation, which evaluates the CIT’s work with their Consultees. The process also includes working with a minimum of 75 clients, across a total of 300 sessions, utilizing the 8 phases of EMDR. It also includes working with at least 5 Consultees, along with time after CIT declaration and EMDRIA CE requirements. See more about the CIT/AC requirements here: EMDR CIT/Approved Consultant FAQ

Why Consider Working Together?

With so many skilled EMDR Approved Consultants available, I appreciate the possibility of working together. In this role, I’ve guided many clinicians toward earning their Certification or Consultant-in-Training statuses. Additionally, since 2023, I’ve coached/facilitated over 3 dozen EMDR Basic Trainings and supported hundreds of clinicians through their required 10 hours of Basic Training group consultation, and continue to do this training work ongoing.

If you are an EMDRIA UPSIDE (formerly RESI) Award funds recipient, I also participate as a Consultant for that program.

Additional EMDR and Related Experience:

As an Approved Consultant, I continually try to stay up-to-date on current changes within EMDR therapy, and also seek advanced EMDR training and ongoing consultation.

I have taken additional EMDR or Complementary training in:

  • – The Flash Technique with Phil Manfield
  • – Recent Trauma Protocols – RTEP/GTEP
  • – Sandra Paulsen’s webinar based on her book Looking Through the Eyes of Trauma and Dissociation
  • – Robin Shapiro’s live training based on her book Easy Ego State Interventions
  • – Introduction to IFS For EMDR Therapists (Step 1 through Syzygy Institute, not formal Level 1 through the IFS Institute)
  • – IFS-Informed EMDR (Step 2 through Syzygy Institute, not formal Level 1 through the IFS Institute)
  • – Internal Family Systems Online Circle through the IFS Institute (IFS-Informed, not formal Level 1 through the IFS Institute)
  • – Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation (MID) training
  • – EMDR with Transgender & Gender-Expansive clients
  • – Sandra Paulsen’s webinar on EMDR and OCD, Did I Lock the Door?
  • – Hope Payson’s webinar on EMDR Therapy, Addiction, and Recovery

Some areas of focus in my own practice include:

  • – Adult clients
  • – Communal trauma
  • – Family of origin issues
  • – LGBTQIA+ clients
  • – PTSD/CPTSD
  • – Simple, complex, and recent trauma (with ongoing learning about dissociation and parts work)
  • – Substance use disorders
  • – Suicide Loss/Bereavement
  • – Telehealth and EMDR

Current Certification Rates:

  • – Individual Consultation in 1-hour blocks – $110.00 per hour (Ongoing consultation toward certification, CIT hours, or One-time case consults)

  • – Group Consultation (Toward Certification) – $55.00 per hour, per person (Groups not running at this time, however I’m happy to discuss setting up a series of closed Certification groups of 2-4 people for you and colleagues or your organization/practice)

  • – Basic Training Hours Consultation – I am able to provide some or all of your 10 Basic Training Consultation hours if you trained with a trainer through EMDR Consulting (www.emdrconsulting.com). As of 11/06/2023, consultations are scheduled through your participant portal rather than SignUpGenius.
  • – I may also be able to help provide some Basic Training hours if your training organization allows meeting with outside consultants rather than using their own network of consultants (It is common among many trainers/training companies to use consultants/facilitators that they approve).

I am available for EMDR Consultations by appointment only.

For EMDR Consultation for Therapists, please contact me for current consultation availability via email: Anthony@naguiatlmhc.com.

(Prospective *Therapy* clients, please contact me using the secure contact form link under the “Contact Me” Section instead).