EMDR Consultant for Certification & Growth
Serious clinicians deserve serious consultation.
Choosing an EMDR consultant can shape far more than your certification timeline. The right consultant sharpens judgment, strengthens confidence, and helps experience mature into real clinical skill.
Dr. Andrew Dobo has been practicing EMDR since 1998 and has conducted thousands of EMDR sessions across decades of real clinical work. Today, he provides consultation for therapists pursuing certification, advanced development, and Transformational EMDR® growth.
His approach is not built on hierarchy or performance. It is collaborative, direct, and grounded in helping dedicated clinicians become stronger in the room where it matters most.
At a Glance
What Does an EMDR Consultant Do?
An EMDR consultant helps therapists deepen their use of EMDR through case review, clinical guidance, feedback, and structured professional development.
Consultation is often required for certification, but many clinicians seek it for a deeper reason: growth.
Working with an experienced EMDR consultant can help therapists:
• strengthen case conceptualization
• improve timing and decision-making
• build confidence with complex cases
• prepare for certification requirements
• continue developing beyond basic training
At EMDR Educators, consultation is available for both individuals and groups.
The Right Guide Changes Everything.
Why Therapists Choose Dr. Andrew Dobo
Some therapists begin consultation because training or certification calls for it. Others seek it voluntarily once they experience the value of thoughtful guidance. The deeper value, however, is what strong consultation can do.
Experience alone does not always reveal blind spots. It does not always sharpen timing, clarify difficult cases, or help a therapist recognize where skill is ready to deepen. Strong consultation shortens learning curves that might otherwise take years.
Dr. Andrew Dobo, Psy.D brings decades of EMDR experience to that process. He began using EMDR in 1998 while working with Vietnam veterans in a VA-sponsored counseling program and has conducted thousands of EMDR sessions since. EMDR is not an occasional specialty in his career. It has been central to his clinical life for decades.
His consultation style is known for being collaborative rather than performative. He does not approach consultees as a judge, jury, or distant authority figure, but as dedicated professionals seeking to grow. He has described consultation as a privilege because serious clinicians arrive curious, motivated, and ready to improve.
Therapists often choose Dr. Dobo because they want more than signatures on paperwork. They want perspective, depth, and guidance that helps them become stronger where clients will feel it most.
Perspective Sharpens Skill.
Writings from Dr. Andrew Dobo
Consultation is shaped not only by experience, but by how a clinician thinks about the work. Explore selected reflections from Dr. Dobo on EMDR, development, and the craft of therapy.
The Secret Skills of an Aging Consultant
There is much written about supervision. There is the responsibility each party agrees to. Clear boundaries are discussed, and there are rules and regulations to follow. Keeping ethical standards is of course the highest priority. No one much talks about the...
Why on Earth are You Not Trained in EMDR?
EMDR should be mandatory across all mental health fields where therapy is administered. Why? Let me tell you a story. I am in the unique position of being a psychologist and patient. In my work over the past 25 years, I was the therapist in town who the parents of a...
Death Bed EMDR
Some of you have read my book, Unburdening Souls at the Speed of Thought and some of you know me as trainees, consultees or colleagues. If you have not read my book, there is a character I talk about throughout; it is my dear friend of 62 years, my friend John. In the...
Consultation Takes Different Forms.
Consultation Options with Dr. Andrew Dobo
By this point, many therapists already understand that consultation is more than a requirement. It becomes one of the fastest ways to refine skill, think more clearly about difficult cases, and keep momentum alive in professional development.
The question is no longer whether consultation has value, it is what kind of consultation will best serve where you are now.
Some clinicians want focused support toward EMDR certification. Some want direct feedback on cases that feel nuanced or stuck. Others want an ongoing relationship with a consultant whose perspective helps them continue sharpening the craft over time.
Dr. Dobo offers individual and group consultation designed to meet clinicians at different stages of experience, with the seriousness, clarity, and depth that meaningful development in EMDR deserves.
Individual EMDR Consultation
For therapists who want direct access to an experienced EMDR consultant for case guidance, sharper clinical thinking, and continued professional growth.
Some clinicians pursue individual EMDR consultation while working toward certification. Others seek it after certification, or after prior EMDR training that left important gaps unaddressed.
Many simply want stronger guidance, deeper understanding, and the kind of perspective that helps good therapists become exceptional over time.
Certification Consultation
For clinicians ready to complete EMDR certification with guidance that strengthens both documentation and real-world clinical confidence.
Strong EMDR certification consultation helps clinicians strengthen judgment, clarify difficult cases, and build confidence that lasts beyond the application process.
The paperwork may mark completion, but stronger clinical judgment is the real achievement. While requirements can be counted, qualities like confidence, clarity, and judgment are things that can only come through development.
Group EMDR Consultation
For clinicians who value learning in the company of other serious therapists, and for practices that want to elevate the standard of care across a team.
Group EMDR consultation creates growth through shared cases, varied perspectives, and the kind of clinical dialogue no single therapist can generate alone. Therapists sharpen through one another.
For private practices and organizations, group consultation can also serve as a strategic investment in excellence, helping clinicians think more clearly, work more consistently, and strengthen the overall quality of EMDR services.
Transformational EMDR® Consultation
For therapists drawn to what EMDR can become when the work reaches beyond coping and into the restructuring of a life.
These consultations reflect Dr. Dobo’s Transformational EMDR® approach, where core negative beliefs are not merely discussed, but deeply reprocessed until a different sense of self begins to emerge. People who once lived from I do not matter, I am not enough, or I have no choice often begin living from entirely different truths, and the consequences can reshape relationships, work, identity, and direction.
Many clinicians arrive here after years of practice, sensing that some cases are asking for more than standard formulations can offer. Others come because they know that therapists, too, are changed by the work they practice. It is difficult to guide transformation repeatedly without being transformed yourself.
EMDR Certification Consultation Requirements
Clarity helps momentum.
Pursuing EMDR certification typically includes more than clinical interest alone. It asks for structured consultation, meaningful experience with the model, and continued professional development over time.
Current common standards often include:
• completion of EMDR basic training
• twenty consultation hours total
• at least ten individual consultation hours
• remaining hours individually or in group format within current guidelines
• documented EMDR clinical experience
• continuing education requirements
• professional recommendations and current credential standards
These requirements create a clear path for therapists who want their experience to mature through guidance, reflection, and continued refinement. Dr. Dobo offers consultation that supports both the formal standards and the clinician moving through them with strength and clarity.
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If You Still Care This Much, Keep Going.
Some clinicians stop when the minimum has been met. Others continue because they can feel the difference between completion and refinement.
They know that stronger therapy is often built quietly: clearer judgment, steadier presence, better timing, deeper trust in the process, and the humility to keep learning long after credentials are earned. That is the spirit that having Dr. Andrew Dobo as your EMDR consultant serves.
At EMDR Educators, Dr. Dobo works with therapists who respect the craft enough to keep sharpening it. Some come for certification. Some come for Transformational EMDR®. Some come simply because they still want to become better at work that matters.
If something in you still leans toward this level of excellence, authenticity, and understanding of depth, it may be worth honoring. It may be that working directly with Dr. Dobo is the right next step for you.