Certification Renewal Application
If you are already certified, this form is to be used for recertification/renewal. You can also download the form in PDF format if desired.
Before competing this form, make sure you complete the other requirements of renewal including the renewal documentation form (which you will attach below).
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Two-Year Certification Renewal Requirements
To renew your certification every two years, you will need to:
1. Document, in-depth, one of each of the nine Phase 1 and Phase 2 frame set-ups including the following:
- Date and Anonymous Brainspotting Recipient Identifier
- Presenting issue
- Frame Set-up used
- Briefly describe what motivated you to choose this frame set-up
- Briefly describe the recipient’s process
- Briefly describe your experience of the process (Consider reflecting on attunement, staying in the tail of the comet, limbic countertransference.)
2. Complete 1 hour of consultation with an Approved Brainspotting Consultant or a 5-day Brainspotting Intensive with an Approved Brainspotting Trainer. Use the prompts below to prepare for your consultation. No written documentation is required for the consultation meeting; instead, be ready to discuss the following prompts in detail.
Prompts:
- Review the Brainspotting Consultant’s Report and clearly identify at least 3 principles or practices that you feel are a strength and at least 3 principles or practices where you need support.
- Provide an in-depth description of your experience of providing Brainspotting for an individual/couple or family, including how you’ve understood their process, how you have used Brainspotting with them, the ways Brainspotting has helped them, and how this experience has influenced your own practice.
- Describe how your own Brainspotting has continued to support you.
3. Complete the renewal application, payment, and provide your 9 documented Brainspotting Sessions, and a copy of liability insurance (or request a waiver of liability insurance) to Brainspotting Trainings, LLC.
Individual exceptions will be determined by the Brainspotting Consultant and BTL.