EMDR Consultant-in-Training (CiT) Cohort
A year long, immersive pathway for EMDR Certified Therapists who are ready to grow into the role of EMDRIA Approved Consultant. This cohort is designed to help you strengthen your clinical thinking, develop your consultant identity, build steady leadership skills, and gain the confidence needed to support therapists as they deepen their EMDR work.
Step Into Your Role as an EMDR Consultant
Becoming an EMDR Consultant is a meaningful shift in identity. It invites you to move with a different kind of presence, confidence, and clarity as you guide other therapists in their work. This path asks you to hold complexity, think at a higher clinical level, and support consultees as they grow into their own abilities.
The EMDR Consultation-in-Training (CiT) Cohort gives you the space, structure, and mentorship to develop this role with intention. Across the year you will deepen your ability to conceptualize cases, identify patterns and blocks, and guide therapists through the moments when they feel unsure or overwhelmed. You will cultivate your consultant voice, strengthen your leadership skills, and create a consultation approach that reflects your values, your experience, and your clinical wisdom.
This is a year of stepping into leadership, supporting other therapists with confidence, and growing into the consultant you are ready to be.
Cassidy DuHadway, LCSW is an EMDRIA approved Consultant and Trainer
What You Will Learn
As you grow into yourEMDR Approved consultant role, you will deepen your understanding of the AIP model, learn how to track what your consultees cannot yet see, and support them as they navigate complex trauma, dissociation, emotional neglect, religious trauma, ADHD, attachment wounds, and identity. You will learn how to pace consultees, how to guide them when they feel unsure, and how to help them understand their own blocks and countertransference with clarity and compassion.
You will also learn how to build and lead consultation groups, structure one on one consultation sessions, create sustainable business offerings, and set boundaries that keep your work grounded and aligned. You will develop your consultant identity with guidance, support, and space to practice the skills you need to lead.
What You Receive in the CiT Cohort
Ten Group Consultation of Consultation Sessions
Learn to lead conversations, guide consultees, navigate clinical stuck points, and support therapists as they work through complex trauma cases.
Ten Individual Consultation of Consultation Sessions
Dedicated space to develop your consultant skills, refine your leadership style, deepen your clinical thinking, and receive personalized mentorship.
A Full Year of Consultant Development
Grow steadily through a structured, year long process that builds your confidence and capacity as a leader in the EMDR field.
Consultation Business Support
Guidance on building your consultation offerings, structuring agreements, pricing your work, and creating a sustainable consultation practice.
How the CiT Cohort Works
Cohorts begin quarterly, and you move through the year with the same small group of EMDR Certified Therapists. Group sessions focus on consultant level case conceptualization, leadership skill development, supporting consultees with difficult cases, and strengthening your clinical decision making. Individual sessions deepen your consultant identity, offer guidance on real consultation challenges, and support you in developing a style that feels grounded and true to you.
You will receive all group dates in advance and can schedule your individual consultation of consultation sessions at the pace that works best for your caseload and learning. By the end of the year you will have completed the twenty hours required by EMDRIA to become an EMDR Consultant.
Who This Cohort Is For
This cohort is for EMDR Certified Therapists who are ready to grow into the consultant role with support, mentorship, and clinical depth. It is especially supportive for therapists who want a trauma informed, attachment informed, identity aware, and deeply relational approach to consultation.
If you want to strengthen your leadership, guide other therapists with clarity and confidence, and build a consultation practice that reflects your values and skill, this cohort is for you.
Becoming a Consultant Requires a New Kind of Confidence
Consultants hold space for therapists who are overwhelmed, unsure, stuck in countertransference, navigating complex trauma systems, or doubting their abilities. This cohort helps you develop the clarity, steadiness, clinical insight, and leadership presence you need to guide therapists with confidence.
This is where you learn the skills that truly define consultant-level mastery.
Investment
The EMDR CiT Cohort is a year long program that includes twenty consultation of consultation hours, leadership skill development, and support as you grow into an EMDR Consultant.
Payment plans represent a full commitment and cannot be canceled once the cohort begins. All hours must be completed within one year of your cohort start date.
Choose the Payment Structure That Works for You
What Past CiT Participants Say
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"I thought stepping into the consultant role meant I needed to be perfect. What I learned instead was how to trust my clinical judgment, hold space for other therapists without fixing everything for them, and guide consultees through their own growth. Cassidy helped me understand the consultant role in a way that finally felt grounded and attainable. This cohort changed the way I show up as a leader."
— Amy Mathews, LCSW, EMDR Certified Therapist, CiT Graduate -
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"Before this program, I felt intimidated by the idea of leading consultation. Now I actually enjoy it. The cohort helped me find my voice, understand my strengths, and build a consultation approach that fits my identity as a trauma therapist. I left with more clarity, more confidence, and a consultation framework I actually use."
Morgan Pray, LCSW — Newly Approved EMDR Consultant -
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"Cassidy doesn’t just teach skills. She teaches you how to think like a consultant. I learned how to stay steady when consultees were unsure, how to conceptualize through the AIP model at a deeper level, and how to reflect my own stuck points without judgment. I feel more confident, more capable, and genuinely prepared to support other therapists."
Sam Williams, LMFT — CiT Participant, Private Practice Owner -
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"I didn’t realize how isolating the CiT process could feel until I joined this cohort. Having a group to learn with made such a difference. We practiced leading, discussed difficult cases, and supported each other through the parts of consultation that felt overwhelming. I am so grateful I didn’t try to do this alone."
Kathy Smith — EMDR Certified Therapist, CiT Cohort Member -
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"This was the first time I felt truly mentored as a clinician. Cassidy’s guidance is gentle but honest, and she sees the parts you’re missing in a way that helps you grow without shame. I became a better consultant, and honestly, a better therapist because of this experience."
Thomas Edmonds, CMHC — EMDRIA Consultant in Training
FAQs
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Yes. EMDRIA requires therapists to be EMDR Certified before beginning the Consultant in Training process. If you’re already certified, you are eligible to join this cohort.
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Yes. The cohort includes the full 20 hours of consultation of consultation required by EMDRIA for the EMDRIA Approved Consultant credential. This includes 10 hours of group and 10 hours of individual consultation of consultation.
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EMDR consultation focuses on improving your clinical EMDR skills with your own clients.
Consultation of consultation focuses on helping you develop the skills needed to support and guide other therapists as they use EMDR with their clients. This includes leadership, case conceptualization, identifying consultees’ stuck points, and strengthening your consultant identity. -
Group sessions focus on learning how to lead discussions, guide consultees through difficult cases, support their learning edges, and strengthen your ability to conceptualize from the consultant role. Everyone will time to share, ask questions, support other consultees while also receiving feedback and guidance from Cassidy.
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You will receive a code and be able to schedule your individual CiT sessions directly through the online scheduling portal. You can space them throughout the year at a pace that fits your learning process and your consultee workload.
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Consistent attendance is important, but we understand that conflicts happen. You are responsible for completing all hours within the 12-month period. When possible, an alternative group session or individual session may be used to meet EMDRIA requirements, depending on availability.
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Yes. Becoming an EMDRIA Approved Consultant includes not only clinical leadership but also developing a sustainable consultation practice. You will receive guidance on setting fees, structuring groups, creating consultation agreements, and navigating boundaries and ethical considerations in consultation relationships.
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Most therapists begin the CiT process feeling unsure. This cohort is designed to support you as you grow into the leadership and clinical confidence needed to become an EMDRIA Approved Consultant. You do not need to feel “finished” or “perfect” to begin. You only need to be open to growth.
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Yes. Cohorts begin quarterly. You may choose the start date that works best for your practice and schedule.
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Your cohort enrollment includes 12 months of access. You must complete all 20 hours of consultation of consultation within that timeframe to meet EMDRIA requirements.
Ready to Grow and become a Consultant?
If you are ready to lead other therapists with confidence, strengthen your EMDR skills at the consultant level, and build a sustainable consultation practice, I would love to support you in this next stage of your professional growth.
