trying to find clinician with appropriate training/have other questions, too!

I am trying to find a clinician in my vicinity who is appropriately certified in EMDR. I have interviewed several therapists (whose names I found on the EMDRIA website) who say things like, "Yeah, I qualify for certification but I don't have it yet" or "My certificate is in the mail" or (worse yet!) "I don't know what you're asking. Is it the paper I got in the mail a few months ago" (as if the client would know!!!).

I have some questions:

1. When is EMDR NOT recommended for a client?

2. Is it customary to have my regular therapist (who is not trained in EMDR but who recommended I have it) "sit in" on my EMDR sessions?
One therapist I interviewed says she insists that the client's regular therapist sit in at least once. What is the benefit of this--especially if my regular therapist will not be allowed to speak during the session (according to this person I spoke with)? Frankly, why should I pay for my regular therapist to sit in when she isn't allowed to do anything? I will continue to see her every other week anyway during the time I have EMDR with the new person.

3. Is it customary for an EMDR clinician to bring in another clinician (who would be someone I have not talked with or interviewed) during my sessions? I talked to one therapist who says she brings in this other allegedly EMDR-trained man when she feels as though she needs "help" or some sort of feedback from him. (To me, this sounds codependent!!!)

4. Are EMDR sessions normally longer than the traditional 50 minutes? Should they be?

Thank you very much for your help.

Sincerely,
Dee

Replies:

would appreciate if Dr. Shapiro would answer my questions, by Dee, 8/26/99 Re: trying to find clinician with appropriate training/have other questions, too!, by Forte, 8/27/99 Thanks, Karen!/info for clients, by Dee, 8/30/99 addendum to "search for clinician", by Dee, 9/2/99 Re: trying to find clinician with appropriate training/have other questions, too!, by Shapiro, 8/30/99 Thank you, Dr. Shapiro, by Dee, 8/30/99 Re: trying to find clinician with appropriate training/have other questions, too!, by Cathy, 8/31/99 Re: trying to find clinician with appropriate training/have other questions, too!, by Shapiro, 9/2/99 Re: trying to find clinician\e-mail to inst@emdr.com , by Dee, 9/2/99 Re: trying to find clinician\e-mail to inst@emdr.com , by Shapiro, 9/5/99

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