We offer EMDR Institute Basic Trainings, Basic Training Refreshers and Advanced Training – ‘Beyond Basics.’ Our Basic Trainings are delivered over three days involving full participation from the trainer and facilitators, who are dedicated to both teaching and supporting practicums. This intensive, hands-on approach ensures you leave ready to begin practicing EMDR Therapy with simple presentations, supported by case consultation.
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EMDR is an advanced psychotherapy originally developed by Francine Shapiro to treat PTSD. Research and developments have since shown effective application of EMDR in the treatment of a broad range of clinical presentations, and this continues as the understanding of trauma increases and deepens.
The World Health Organisation recognises EMDR as a Level A intervention for the treatment of trauma in Adults, Adolescents and Children, and EMDR has been recognised as having the highest level of research evidence for the treatment of PTSD by the Australian Psychological Society.
EMDR Australia Training and Consultation is one of just three providers of EMDR Institute training in Australia. The EMDR Institute was developed by Francine Shapiro to lead the teaching of EMDR internationally, and only includes developments in EMDR in the curriculum where there is strong empirical evidence.
The EMDR Association Australia (EMDRAA) sets the training and practice standards for EMDR in Australia has approved this 3 day EMDR Institute training.
EMDR
Basic Training
EMDR is a comprehensive advanced psychotherapy. Training is designed for mental health practitioners with clinical experience from a range of disciplines, who are qualified at a relevant level for each discipline and who are registered with their registration body. These standards are set by EMDRAA.
EMDR Institute Trainings are conducted in real time with trainers and facilitators over the course of 3-days.
Basic Training is comprised of 50 hours across two parts. Part 1 is a 3-day training and Part 2 is a later 3-day training. There are also clinical practice and case consultation undertaken between Part 1 and Part 2 and again after Part 2.
- 20 hours of didactic training and practicum over Part 1 and Part 2 training
- 20 hours of skills training over Part 1 and Part 2 training
- 10 hours of case consultation over the course of the training
Important: Participants are strongly recommended to attend Part 2 a minimum of 4–6 months after Part 1. Please note that requests to defer to a later training date are subject to the non-refundable periods outlined in our Cancellation and Refund Policy.
When this is completed, you can be certified as having completed EMDR Basic Training and then be eligible for full membership of EMDRAA. EMDR Basic Training must be completed within 24 months from the initial start date.
Trainings can be either in person or online.
Tell us where you would like to attend a Basic Training: Online? In person (min. 10 participants)? Your work? Your location of choice? Send an expression of interest!
10 hours of Case Consultation is completed as 5 hours between Part 1 and Part 2 trainings, and 5 hours following attendance at Part 2. This can be done in groups, or individually. Case consultation must be signed off by a case consultant who is EMDR Institute accredited before you are eligible for a certificate for completion of EMDR Basic Training.
To complete basic training with the EMDR Institute, the Case Consultant must also be an EMDR Institute approved Consultant.
Case Consultation is arranged directly with case consultants and you will be directed to a list of possible consultants.
Case consultation is also important once you have completed your basic training. EMDR training is rigorous; continuous development of your confidence and skills is an investment in the longevity of your practice.
Case consultation is also a part of completing requirements to become an Accredited EMDR Practitioner and also an accredited EMDR Consultant with EMDRAA.
Meet The Trainer
Dr. Gillian Maddock
Clinical Psychologist
Yes. I think the key is to avoid the usual polished biography full of “passionate about”, “extensive expertise”, and “committed to empowering”. That doesn’t sound like you. I’ve tried to make this more thoughtful, matter-of-fact, clinically curious, and a little personal without becoming informal.
Dr Gillian Maddock is a Clinical Psychologist, EMDR Institute Trainer and EMDR consultant who has worked in private practice, public mental health and hospital settings. She also teaches and supervises psychologists and other health professionals (allied health and students of medicine) and has been involved in postgraduate clinical psychology teaching and co-supervision for PhD at the University of Newcastle.
Gillian’s clinical work has always tended towards complexity. She has a particular interest in trauma and EMDR, but also in what happens when trauma is only part of the picture — when people present with combinations of mood disorder, trauma, dissociation, neurodivergence, attachment difficulties, physical illness or injury, grief and other experiences that don’t fit particularly neatly into one diagnosis or treatment model. She has worked extensively with complex trauma and with military personnel, veterans and first responders, as well as people experiencing severe mental illness, suicidality and complicated grief.
Bipolar disorder has been a longstanding area of clinical and teaching interest. Gillian has taught postgraduate clinical psychology students about the assessment and treatment of bipolar disorder and has presented professionally on bipolar disorder, the intersection with trauma and other co-morbidities and the use of EMDR with people who have bipolar disorder. Other areas that have increasingly interested her include trauma in all it’s forms, dissociation, functional symptoms, attachment, neurodivergence, interoception and trans-diagnostic case conceptualisation, treatment planning and clinical decision making.
Much of Gillian’s work now involves teaching, training and clinical consultation. She provides EMDR Institute Basic Training and advanced professional development in a range of areas, as well as consultation and supervision for clinicians developing their EMDR practice. Gillian is a board approved supervisor and has worked with psychology registrars at all levels. She particularly enjoys the point in teaching or consultation where a straightforward answer stops being quite enough and a group begins thinking together about what might actually be happening for the person in front of them – as well as the clinician in front of the client.
Her approach to clinical work and teaching is grounded in research, but she is equally interested in the limits of what we know. She values careful formulation, curiosity and being prepared to reconsider an explanation when it no longer adequately accounts for what is happening.
Underlying all of this is a fairly simple view of psychotherapy: it is serious work between two human beings. Gillian values the shared humanity of that work and aims to bring the same combination of rigour, openness and humanity to her clinical practice, teaching and conversations with colleagues.