Five Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Running an EMDR-Informed Group Practice

I started Whole Mentality as a solo practice. EMDR was central to my clinical work from early on. I was an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, I was seeing clients, I was starting to understand how much I didn't know yet.

What I didn't have was much guidance on what it looks like to build EMDR into a group practice, how to hire for it, how to support it, how to make it something the practice does well rather than something individual clinicians happen to do.

Here are five things I've learned, mostly the hard way.

1. EMDR training is a starting point, not a credential