You are not learning a technique.
You are learning a language.
Most people come into EMDR basic training expecting another training. What you are actually walking into is a whole different language. Precision EMDR Academy runs an EMDRIA-approved basic training built for that reality, over six days, with six students per faculty member. I am Assisting Faculty, which means I am in the practicum rooms with you, and I work with you to complete your required 10 hours of consultation.
What basic training actually asks of you
The hardest part is not the protocol. It is setting down what you already know.
Especially if you have been working with trauma for years, what you have to do is almost tie one of your hands behind your back and use your less dominant hand in training. That is what helps you learn this effectively. Then you tie in what you already know to the model we are teaching you.
What you have learned is helpful. You also need to master what is in the basic training in order for what you bring into it to work well together.
It is much more akin to Psych 101. After you leave basic training you will have the basics, and you will need to go further to work with certain populations. Anyone who tells you that six days makes you finished is not being straight with you.
Why Precision
Six days, one at a time, and you pick your consultant
There are a lot of EMDR trainings out there. Some people prefer in-person, all at once, or the two-weekend method.
I remember going into my own basic training and being annoyed that I had to wait from week one to week two. I wanted to understand and truly know what was going on. I somehow thought a five-day option would be good. But after three days you are exhausted. You go back to work and you do not want to do anything.
Cutting the training into six days, with your consultation running alongside it, means you get through your full training and your 10 consultation hours in a way that actually makes sense.
What else is different here:
Six students to one faculty member. EMDRIA allows ten to one.
Learning labs on top of the training days.
You pick your consultant. If you want to work with neurodivergence, we have experts in neurodivergence. First responders, we have experts in that. Narcissistic abuse, that is me. I am also well versed in the medical issues that come up.
42 hours of didactic and practicum, with 42 APA and NBCC CE credits.
A 300+ page manual and 35+ fillable worksheets, in English and Spanish.
Live online from anywhere.
What six-to-one actually changes
I get to know you
I remember being assigned a random consultant for my practicum. I did not know them. I did not pick them. And they were there knowing some of my darkest details, the kind I usually only save for my therapy office, popping in and out, with too many people to work with at once.
A six-to-one ratio lets me slow down and get to know you. It lets you get to know the other consultees in the room. And it keeps your consultant from being so overloaded that they cannot actually be part of it.
I have watched consultees become genuinely terrified in the first few days of training, because we are talking about everything that can go wrong in EMDR. That fear is normal, and part of my job is the bird's eye view that puts it back in proportion.
The 10 consultation hours
This is the part that decides whether the training lands
Consultation is where you find out how you are actually using this in session.
Here is the blunt version. If you come out of any EMDR training and do not use the techniques, or do not use them in a way that is effective and systematic, you may find yourself wondering why you took the training in the first place.
To become a competent clinician you need experience. Those 10 hours are where you work out which clients you can take care of, which ones you cannot yet, and what further training you want after this.
So if you have a mentor along that route, you are not just completing a required 10 hours. You are entering a mentorship that improves your career.
I run the same structure in my basic training cohorts that I run in all my consultation, so it becomes a normal thing to expect: sweets, sours, burning questions, and clinical cases.
Rates for Precision basic training consultees:
Basic Training Costs: Please see the Precision EMDR Website for the current costs in case you’re in early bird
Group consultation: $150 for a 2-hour session.
Individual consultation: $190 per hour, the same as all my individual work.
Upcoming Cohorts
Spring 2027: Fridays, 9:30am to 6:00pm Pacific Time. Feb 19 and 26, Mar 5, 12, 19, 26.
Summer 2027: Saturdays, 9:30am to 6pm Pacific Time. Jun 19 and 26, Jul 10, 17, 24, 31.
Registration and current tuition are on the Precision EMDR site. Tell them you want me as your consultant!
Frequently Asked Questions
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Yes, absolutely! Come to basic training, come get consultation. What being pre-licensed means is that you do not have to unlearn anything. You are not spending time undoing something that does not work for you. You get to build on things that are good from the start. This includes graduate students, and I have worked with several. You do have to be licensed to be EMDRIA certified or Precision EMDR Advanced certified, but you can be working toward it the whole time.
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No. Precision has several faculty consultants and you get to choose. I keep my numbers small on purpose.
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Yes. There is one condition: my consultees start Precision training alongside our work, and it does not have to be finished or even begun before we start. See the individual consultation page.
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Yes, including the consultation component.
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It means you start from the understanding that cases walking through your door may not look as complex on the surface as they actually are.
You learn to assess your client's real capacity for readiness, instead of staying stuck in a loop of resourcing and history-taking.
Being attachment-informed means you account for the early experiences that could be touchstone events, so that even when a client tells you nothing bad happened in their childhood, you arrive with a lens for where these beliefs and memory networks took root.