The Therapist Shortage No One Talks About: Certified EMDR Clinicians. $3,250 Creates One.

The EMDR 5: Fund Full Certification Consultation for 5 Trauma Therapists

Here is something most people outside the field never learn: completing EMDR training is not the finish line. It's the starting line.

To become an EMDRIA Certified EMDR Therapist, a clinician must complete 20 hours of consultation with an EMDRIA Approved Consultant - at least 10 of them one-on-one. For many therapists, especially those serving the communities that need trauma care most, that cost is the wall between "trained" and "certified." Between good intentions and mastery.

We can take that wall down. One therapist at a time.

Why Briana. Why Now.

This campaign funds certification consultation with Briana Smith, LMFT, EMDRIA Approved Consultant and Founder of Be Seen Therapy - a clinician with over a decade of experience working with survivors of trauma, at-risk populations, and complex clinical presentations.

Her consultation isn't a rubber stamp. It's where therapists bring their hardest cases - the stuck sessions, the dissociative clients, the trauma that doesn't follow the textbook and leave with real answers. That is the difference between a therapist who took a training and a therapist who has been seen, guided, and sharpened by an expert, hour after hour, for 20 hours.

When we fund a scholarship, that is what we're buying: mastery, not paperwork.

The Honest Math

The full certification consultation path with an EMDRIA Approved Consultant:

10 individual consultation sessions (required by EMDRIA): $250 each
10 group consultation sessions: $75 each
Total per clinician: $3,250

Your Impact, in Plain Numbers

$75 funds one group consultation session.
$250 funds one individual consultation session - one hour of expert, one-on-one guidance.
$650 funds 20% of a full scholarship.
$1,625 funds half of a scholarship.
$3,250 fully certifies one clinician's consultation path - your clinician.
$16,250 completes The EMDR 5.

Every dollar converts directly into consultation hours. Nothing abstract. Nothing vague. You are purchasing expert supervision for a working trauma therapist, and they will carry what they learn into every session for the rest of their career.

The Multiplier You're Really Funding

A certified EMDR therapist doesn't help one person. Over a career, they may sit with hundreds of clients — each carrying trauma, each connected to a family, each part of a community. Certification is how we make sure the care they deliver is as strong as it can possibly be.

5 clinicians. 100 consultation hours. Thousands of potential lives reached.

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Trained is good. Certified is better. Help a therapist finish what they started.

Who is Pacific Clinician Collective and Why is the EMDR 5 Fundraiser a Passion Project

Pacific Clinician Collective provides advanced training, EMDR consultation, and scholarships to help clinicians deliver high-quality trauma treatment. By investing in clinician development, we ensure communities have access to sustainable, ethical, and effective healing.

Pacific Clinician Collective is inspired by the best parts of small nonprofit psychotherapy training models: accessible education, clinical depth, supervision-informed community, and a commitment to public benefit.

Our focus is not institutional expansion.

Our focus is clinician development.

Our Mission: To strengthen trauma-informed clinical care by supporting the clinicians who provide it.

We believe access to high-quality trauma treatment begins with well-supported clinicians - clinicians who are trained, reflective, ethically grounded, and able to sustain the depth of the work.