EMDR Consultation With an EMDRIA Approved Consultant
Grow Beyond the Script. Strengthen Your Case Conceptualization. Become a More Confident EMDR Therapist.
Learn. Grow. Serve.
Completing EMDR basic training is an important beginning.
Then you sit across from an actual client. The target isn't as clear as it was in training. The client keeps looping. The SUD isn't moving. They intellectualize everything. New memories emerge. You aren't sure whether you should continue processing, return to resourcing, use an interweave, change targets, or reconsider your conceptualization altogether.
And suddenly, knowing the eight phases of EMDR and knowing how to think as an EMDR therapist feel like two very different things. That's where consultation can help.
Brittany Edie, LCPC, LPC, Certified EMDR Therapist and EMDRIA Approved Consultant, provides EMDR consultation for clinicians seeking greater confidence, competency, and depth in their use of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy.
Consultation is available for clinicians pursuing EMDRIA certification as well as EMDR-trained therapists seeking ongoing case consultation and professional development.
EMDR Training Gave You the Framework. Consultation Helps You Learn How to Use It.
Many clinicians leave EMDR basic training excited about the model—and somewhat overwhelmed. You learned the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model. You learned the eight phases. You practiced bilateral stimulation. You learned how to identify negative and positive cognitions. You practiced assessment and reprocessing. But real clients rarely unfold exactly like a training demonstration.
They come with complex histories, attachment wounds, protective parts, dissociation, competing targets, limited access to emotion, fear of processing, chronic activation, and nervous systems that may have spent decades learning how to survive.
Effective EMDR therapy requires more than memorizing a protocol.
It requires learning how to conceptualize the case through an AIP lens and make thoughtful clinical decisions while remaining grounded in the EMDR model.
That is one of the primary goals of consultation.
EMDR Consultation With Brittany Edie, LCPC, LPC
Brittany is a Certified EMDR Therapist and EMDRIA Approved Consultant who provides consultation to clinicians using EMDR therapy in clinical practice.
Her consultation style is collaborative, approachable, curious, and clinically focused.
You are welcome to bring the cases that are going beautifully.
But you are especially welcome to bring the ones that aren't. The client who keeps looping. The case where you cannot identify the right target. The client who says, “I don't know,” after every set. The session where nothing seemed to happen. The client who suddenly became highly activated. The case where you aren't sure whether you are still doing EMDR. The moment when you know the protocol but aren't sure what the protocol is asking you to notice.
Consultation is not about proving how much you know.
It is a place to become a better EMDR clinician.
Her consultation style is collaborative, approachable, curious, and clinically focused.
You are welcome to bring the cases that are going beautifully.
But you are especially welcome to bring the ones that aren't. The client who keeps looping. The case where you cannot identify the right target. The client who says, “I don't know,” after every set. The session where nothing seemed to happen. The client who suddenly became highly activated. The case where you aren't sure whether you are still doing EMDR. The moment when you know the protocol but aren't sure what the protocol is asking you to notice.
Consultation is not about proving how much you know.
It is a place to become a better EMDR clinician.
EMDR Consultation for EMDRIA Certification
If you have completed an EMDRIA-approved EMDR basic training and are working toward becoming an EMDRIA Certified Therapist, consultation is one component of the certification process.
Brittany provides EMDR consultation that may be used toward certification requirements when the consultation and clinician meet applicable current EMDRIA requirements. Consultation toward certification focuses not simply on completing required consultation hours, but on helping you demonstrate increasing competency in the EMDR model.
Areas of development may include:
Knowing when additional stabilization, consultation, or referral may be needed
Certification is about competency—not simply accumulating consultation hours. Clinicians pursuing EMDRIA certification are responsible for reviewing and meeting all current EMDRIA certification requirements.
Brittany provides EMDR consultation that may be used toward certification requirements when the consultation and clinician meet applicable current EMDRIA requirements. Consultation toward certification focuses not simply on completing required consultation hours, but on helping you demonstrate increasing competency in the EMDR model.
Areas of development may include:
- Understanding and applying the Adaptive Information Processing model
- EMDR case conceptualization
- The eight phases of EMDR therapy
- The three-pronged approach
- Treatment planning and target sequencing
- Identifying appropriate targets
- Negative and positive cognitions
- Preparation and resourcing
- Assessing readiness for reprocessing
- Phase 4 desensitization
- Recognizing blocked processing
- Cognitive interweaves
- Installation
- Body scan
- Closure and incomplete sessions
- Reevaluation
- Maintaining fidelity to the EMDR model
- Documentation of EMDR sessions
- Ethical and clinical decision-making
Knowing when additional stabilization, consultation, or referral may be needed
Certification is about competency—not simply accumulating consultation hours. Clinicians pursuing EMDRIA certification are responsible for reviewing and meeting all current EMDRIA certification requirements.
Already EMDR Trained? You Can Still Come to Consultation.
You do not need to be pursuing certification to benefit from EMDR consultation.
Many clinicians complete certification and still encounter cases that leave them wondering:
“What am I missing?”
Others completed basic training months—or even years—ago but never developed enough confidence to begin using EMDR consistently.
You may benefit from ongoing EMDR consultation if:
Consultation can continue long after certification.
Experienced clinicians need places to think, too.
Many clinicians complete certification and still encounter cases that leave them wondering:
“What am I missing?”
Others completed basic training months—or even years—ago but never developed enough confidence to begin using EMDR consistently.
You may benefit from ongoing EMDR consultation if:
- You completed basic training but feel hesitant to use EMDR
- You find yourself reverting to talk therapy
- You understand the protocol but struggle with conceptualization
- You frequently feel unsure about target selection
- You want help with complex or challenging cases
- You aren't sure when a client is adequately prepared for processing
- You want to strengthen your use of cognitive interweaves
- You feel overly dependent upon scripts
- You want to improve your EMDR documentation
- You want to deepen your understanding of the AIP model
- You simply want support from an experienced EMDR clinician
Experienced clinicians need places to think, too.
From Protocol to Clinical Discernment
One of the biggest transitions in becoming an EMDR therapist is moving from: “What am I supposed to say next?” to: “What is happening in the client's processing right now?”
Scripts can be incredibly valuable while learning EMDR. But over time, clinicians need to understand the model beneath the words. Consultation can help you become more confident noticing:
And perhaps most importantly, when you don't need to do anything at all. The goal is not to abandon the protocol. It is to understand it deeply enough that you can practice with both fidelity and flexibility.
Scripts can be incredibly valuable while learning EMDR. But over time, clinicians need to understand the model beneath the words. Consultation can help you become more confident noticing:
- What information appears to be moving.
- Where processing may be blocked.
- Whether you are seeing avoidance, protection, or simply processing.
- When to stay out of the way.
- When an interweave may be helpful.
- When you may be working with the wrong target.
- When the client's nervous system is telling you to slow down.
- When returning to an earlier phase may be clinically appropriate.
And perhaps most importantly, when you don't need to do anything at all. The goal is not to abandon the protocol. It is to understand it deeply enough that you can practice with both fidelity and flexibility.
AIP-Informed Case Conceptualization
EMDR therapy is grounded in the Adaptive Information Processing model. Strong EMDR treatment begins before bilateral stimulation ever starts. Consultation may help you move beyond asking:
“What memory should we process?” and begin examining the broader network of experiences, beliefs, sensations, triggers, and patterns connected to the client's presenting concerns.
Together, we may explore:
Good EMDR case conceptualization helps the eight phases make sense.
Instead of simply applying EMDR to a client, you begin understanding the client's experience through the AIP model.
“What memory should we process?” and begin examining the broader network of experiences, beliefs, sensations, triggers, and patterns connected to the client's presenting concerns.
Together, we may explore:
- Presenting symptoms and current triggers
- Earlier experiences connected to current distress
- Negative beliefs and themes
- Adaptive information that may be missing
- Patterns across relationships and life experiences
- Relevant future situations
- Potential target sequences
- Protective responses
- Nervous-system activation
- Readiness for reprocessing
- Barriers to adaptive resolution
Good EMDR case conceptualization helps the eight phases make sense.
Instead of simply applying EMDR to a client, you begin understanding the client's experience through the AIP model.
Trauma-Informed EMDR Consultation
EMDR is a trauma treatment, but being trained in EMDR does not automatically make every clinical decision trauma-informed.
Brittany's broader clinical work emphasizes trauma-informed care, nervous-system awareness, and whole-person case conceptualization.
Consultation may therefore include consideration of:
The question is not simply:
“Can I process this target?”
Sometimes the more important question is:
“What does this client need in order to safely and effectively engage in processing?”
Brittany's broader clinical work emphasizes trauma-informed care, nervous-system awareness, and whole-person case conceptualization.
Consultation may therefore include consideration of:
- Window of tolerance
- Fight, flight, freeze, shutdown, and other protective responses
- Attachment
- Relational safety
- Somatic activation
- Dissociative symptoms
- Pacing
- Preparation and resourcing
- Client capacity
- Therapist attunement
- Countertransference
- Complex trauma presentations
- Appropriate referrals or additional consultation
The question is not simply:
“Can I process this target?”
Sometimes the more important question is:
“What does this client need in order to safely and effectively engage in processing?”
Stuck in Phase 4?
Phase 4 is often where newer EMDR therapists begin questioning themselves.
Processing begins—and then something unexpected happens. The client loops. Nothing changes. The client becomes highly cognitive. They repeatedly say, “I don't know.” A new memory appears. The SUD stays the same. The client suddenly feels worse. You feel pressure to make something happen.
Consultation can help you learn to distinguish between processing that needs room to unfold and processing that may genuinely be blocked.
We can explore questions such as:
The goal isn't to collect clever interweaves.
It's to become increasingly skilled at understanding why processing is—or isn't—moving.
Processing begins—and then something unexpected happens. The client loops. Nothing changes. The client becomes highly cognitive. They repeatedly say, “I don't know.” A new memory appears. The SUD stays the same. The client suddenly feels worse. You feel pressure to make something happen.
Consultation can help you learn to distinguish between processing that needs room to unfold and processing that may genuinely be blocked.
We can explore questions such as:
- Is the client actually stuck?
- Am I intervening too quickly?
- Is there a feeder memory?
- Is another belief maintaining the disturbance?
- Is a protective response preventing movement?
- Would an interweave be appropriate?
- Do we need additional information?
- Are we still working with the most appropriate target?
- Does the client need more preparation?
- What is my own activation doing in the room?
The goal isn't to collect clever interweaves.
It's to become increasingly skilled at understanding why processing is—or isn't—moving.
EMDR Documentation Consultation
Doing good EMDR work and documenting good EMDR work are not necessarily the same skill.
Clinicians often struggle with how to document EMDR sessions clearly while avoiding a minute-by-minute transcript of the reprocessing session.
Consultation may include support with documenting:
The goal is documentation that reflects the clinical work performed while remaining concise, meaningful, and professionally appropriate.
Clinicians often struggle with how to document EMDR sessions clearly while avoiding a minute-by-minute transcript of the reprocessing session.
Consultation may include support with documenting:
- EMDR phases completed
- Target memory or issue
- Negative cognition
- Positive cognition
- SUD
- VOC
- Relevant body sensations
- Processing themes
- Clinically significant shifts
- Cognitive interweaves
- Incomplete processing
- Closure
- Reevaluation
- Treatment response and next steps
The goal is documentation that reflects the clinical work performed while remaining concise, meaningful, and professionally appropriate.
Christian Faith + EMDR Consultation
For clinicians who desire it, Brittany can also provide consultation from a Christian worldview.
This may be particularly helpful for therapists providing Christian counseling or working with clients who want faith incorporated into trauma treatment.
Consultation can include thoughtful discussion of areas such as:
Faith should never be used to force adaptive information onto a client. Even when therapist and client share Christian beliefs, EMDR processing remains client-led. Consultation can help clinicians thoughtfully navigate the intersection of faith, trauma, clinical ethics, and the AIP model.
This may be particularly helpful for therapists providing Christian counseling or working with clients who want faith incorporated into trauma treatment.
Consultation can include thoughtful discussion of areas such as:
- Faith and trauma
- Spiritual wounds
- Shame and forgiveness
- Identity
- Clients' beliefs about God
- Religious or spiritual experiences connected to target memories
- Faith-related negative cognitions
- Ethical spiritual integration
- Differentiating the therapist's beliefs from the client's beliefs
- Recognizing spiritual bypassing
- Maintaining client autonomy throughout EMDR treatment
Faith should never be used to force adaptive information onto a client. Even when therapist and client share Christian beliefs, EMDR processing remains client-led. Consultation can help clinicians thoughtfully navigate the intersection of faith, trauma, clinical ethics, and the AIP model.
What Can I Bring to EMDR Consultation?
- Bring the cases you aren't sure about.
- Bring your case conceptualization.
- Bring your target sequence.
- Bring your questions about preparation.
- Bring the case where you don't know where to start.
- Bring the processing session that didn't go as expected.
- Bring your documentation questions.
- Bring the moment you almost used an interweave but weren't sure.
- Bring the case where you used one and now wonder whether you should have.
- Bring your questions about AIP.
- Bring your uncertainty.
You don't have to make the case sound impressive before bringing it to consultation. Consultation is where we figure it out together.
EMDR Consultation Fees
Dyad Consultation: $2,000 per clinician / 20-hour consultation package ($100/hour)
Individual Consultation: $225/hour
Clinicians seeking consultation toward EMDRIA certification should discuss their certification goals with Brittany before beginning so consultation can be structured appropriately.
Individual Consultation: $225/hour
Clinicians seeking consultation toward EMDRIA certification should discuss their certification goals with Brittany before beginning so consultation can be structured appropriately.
Frequently Asked Questions About EMDR Consultation
What is an EMDRIA Approved Consultant?
An EMDRIA Approved Consultant is an experienced EMDR clinician who has met EMDRIA's requirements to provide consultation to EMDR-trained clinicians, including consultation that may count toward EMDRIA certification when applicable requirements are met.
Can my consultation hours count toward EMDRIA certification?
Brittany is an EMDRIA Approved Consultant. Consultation may count toward EMDRIA certification when both the clinician and consultation meet current EMDRIA requirements.
Do I have to be pursuing EMDR certification?
No. EMDR-trained clinicians are welcome to seek consultation for case conceptualization, difficult cases, skill development, confidence, documentation, or continued professional growth even if they are not pursuing certification.
I completed EMDR training but haven't really used it. Can you help?
Yes. This is a common reason clinicians seek consultation. We can explore what is creating hesitation, review the EMDR model, strengthen case conceptualization, and help you identify appropriate opportunities to begin integrating EMDR into your clinical work.
Can you help me with a specific EMDR case?
Yes. Case consultation is an important part of EMDR consultation. Appropriate steps should always be taken to protect client confidentiality when discussing clinical material.
Can you review my EMDR documentation?
Yes. Consultation can include discussion of EMDR documentation and how to clearly capture the clinical work occurring across the eight phases.
Do you provide virtual EMDR consultation?
Yes. EMDR consultation is available virtually, allowing Brittany to work with EMDR-trained clinicians beyond the Hanover, Pennsylvania and Westminster, Maryland areas.
Do you offer group EMDR consultation?
Yes, group EMDR consultation is typically structured in dyads in which 2 clinicians are paired together.
Is EMDR consultation the same as clinical supervision?
No. Clinical supervision involves oversight of a clinician's broader clinical practice and may be required toward professional licensure. EMDR consultation focuses specifically on developing competency in EMDR therapy. If you are seeking supervision toward counseling licensure in Maryland or Pennsylvania, visit our Clinical Supervision page. Explore clinical supervision here.
Do you provide EMDR basic training?
No. Consultation is intended for clinicians who have received appropriate EMDR training. Brittany currently provides EMDR consultation rather than EMDR basic training. Brittany acts as a consultant on the Partners in EMDR Training team. Partners in EMDR Training provides EMDR Basic Training in connection with the American Association of Christian Counselors.
Ready to Become More Confident Using EMDR?
You Don't Need to Know the Perfect Thing to Say Next.
You need to understand the model well enough to notice what is happening.
That confidence develops over time.
It develops by using EMDR.
And by having experienced clinicians who can help you think through the moments when the protocol on paper meets the complexity of an actual human being.
Whether you are working toward EMDRIA certification, beginning to integrate EMDR after basic training, or looking for advanced EMDR case consultation, Brittany would be honored to support your continued development.
Let's help you move from knowing the EMDR protocol to thinking like an EMDR therapist.
You need to understand the model well enough to notice what is happening.
That confidence develops over time.
It develops by using EMDR.
- By getting stuck.
- By asking questions.
- By conceptualizing cases.
- By recognizing what you missed.
- By trying again.
Whether you are working toward EMDRIA certification, beginning to integrate EMDR after basic training, or looking for advanced EMDR case consultation, Brittany would be honored to support your continued development.
Let's help you move from knowing the EMDR protocol to thinking like an EMDR therapist.
