The Counselling Academy

WHEN?:  1st to 4th August 2025.

WHERE?: - Denmark Hse, Kent ME5 9RG ME5 9RG ME5 9RGME5 9RG

Are you ready to become a certified EMDR practitioner and bring transformative trauma treatment into your practice?

Join our Certified EMDR Live Training event and receive our comprehensive Part 1 (Protocol) and Part 2 (Practice & Supervision) certifications in one immersive week, set in a stunning rural farmhouse in Kent!

This unique training event is designed for counsellors who want to introduce EMDR into their work and fast-track their training which will leave them fully confident to incorporate EMDR into their work immediately. You'll practice on real clients bought in especially for this training - with real issues that are common to our therapy room and that EMDR can help with  so no need to produce all the cases studies needed for the online training, this gives you hands-on experience, on hand guidance and will boost your confidence to get incorporate it into your practice immediately.

Why This Training event is Different:

• You don’t need to be part of any membership club or accredited by voluntary organisations to access this training! Here at The Counselling Academy, we believe in inclusivity and making advanced training accessible to ALL qualified working counsellors.
• We do require that you hold a minimum of a Level 4 Diploma in Counselling or above, as our courses focus on building specialist skills, not on covering the basics.
• We also require that you have completed at least 100 supervised Client hours.
• I will personally demonstrate live EMDR sessions with volunteers to show how easy and powerful the process is.
• By using real clients with real issues as replacement case studies, you’ll leave fully certified and ready to use EMDR in your practice. You will be fully supervised and guided during the practice sessions so this training event accelerates your learning and the certification process.

What's Included in the training:

• Part 1: You’ll learn the complete EMDR protocol, as developed by Francine Shapiro and used in clinical practice for over 30 years. Our step-by-step training will ensure you're confident in the 8 phases of EMDR.
• Part 2: Supervised practice sessions using real-life clients providing you with the experience and supervision you need to gain certification.
• Lifetime access to our Facebook support group, exclusive to students, where you’ll get peer support, peer supervision groups and ongoing supervision opportunities.
• Plus, enjoy delicious food and socialising with peers for 4 nights/5 days 

Certification: You'll receive two certificates to take home with you:

1. Introduction & Implementation after completing the 8 phases of the EMDR protocol.
2. Intermediate Certification after completing your supervised case studies during the retreat.

Why Choose Our Course?

• We’re passionate about equality in the counselling profession, and we actively challenge the elitist gatekeeping often seen in EMDR training. This course is based on my own extensive experience with EMDR since 2019, offering a comprehensive toolkit for any counsellor.
• You’ll have lifetime access to all course materials, ensuring you can return and refresh your knowledge whenever you need to.
• As an extra bonus we now include how to incorporate Somatic breathwork and movement into your sessions which ties in nicely with EMDR and some of the Phases.
• You will also have access to Part 3 which is still in production (hopefully completed by June 2025) which will cover more advanced topics)
• Whether you're part of a membership club or not, this retreat is for every qualified counsellor looking to grow their practice and incorporate EMDR into their work.

Please read our information on our main Online EMDR course HERE which explains more about why you do not need to be a member of a membership club to learn this modality.

Don't miss this opportunity to become fully certified in a week, surrounded by like-minded professionals, and return home with the confidence to integrate EMDR into your client work immediately.