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Certification Policy
Click here to pay the annual certification fee at The Seemorg Market.
In the intial implementation of this new policy, AIT needs everyone to complete a certification form.
Click here to download a certification form.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligibility criteria for AIT Practitioner Certification now include graduate-level training in a helping profession that
focuses on mental health training. This graduate training provides the foundational theoretical knowledge and basic
clinical skills that are necessary for every skilled AIT practitioner to have. It is the material that is offered in
graduate school that is the necessary prerequisite for successful work as a therapist in any modality. It also enables
the therapist to be State licensed (in the US) or Professionally qualified (in the UK and Europe), which will usually be
a requirement.
AIT will on occasion consider certification for those who do not have a graduate degree in a
helping profession if they can demonstrate that they have the equivalent of two years of graduate course work and two
years of supervised field placement. Please contact the AIT office if you would like an application for review.
Decisions of the AIT Advisory Committee will be final.
NEW INTRODUCTORY TRAINING STRUCTURE
AIT is committed to providing the highest quality of integrative psychotherapeutic training. We have evaluated the
effectiveness of AIT seminars based on the degree to which trainees are able to understand and integrate the materials.
A great deal of the training has worked well, and where improvement has been needed changes have been made.
The result is a complete redesign of the introductory trainings that lead up to certification. The new two-seminar
training structure leading to certification will enable practitioners to learn and use AIT theory and practice more
easily, with more confidence, and greater effectiveness.
Achieving AIT Practitioner Certification
1. Seminars
The new introductory training steps leading up to AIT Practitioner certification are listed below.
You will notice that the well-established first seminar ‘AIT Basics’ will continue to be the first training seminar
taken by all new practitioners and will continue to be a pre-requisite for other AIT seminars. This seminar’s contents
remain unchanged though the format and design has been revised to improve the learning experience.
Mastering AIT Practice (MAP) is a completely new seminar designed to complete your foundational grasp of AIT theory
and practice so that you begin to feel both confident and competent using it with clients in your own setting. MAP
is the seminar that enables the basics to be contextualized, fine-tuned, and questions and confusions to be clarified,
with teachers and trainers offering detailed guidance, revision, and troubleshooting. AIT is a sophisticated and
detailed method. It appears simple and elegant when used proficiently, but experienced practitioners will recognize
that it takes time, guidance and practice to make the transition from learning the Basics of AIT to applying them well
with diverse cultures, client needs, and presenting issues. That is why MAP is now established as the counterpart of
AIT Basics as an introductory seminar required for formal certification.
Basics of AIT and MAP are the two seminars required for certification.
2. Tele-conference consultation groups
Each introductory seminar is complemented by a tele-conference consultation group which practitioners must register for
separately, after completing the relevant seminars.
The Basics Tele-conference provides a small group of practitioners with an opportunity to do the following:
- Discuss, review and clarify areas that are raising curiosity, creating surprise or causing difficulty.
- Listen to and learn from the experiences of other participants in making the transition from learning the
approach to using it.
- Present a case, briefly, of a client with whom you are a) interested in how you would use AIT with,
b) intend to use AIT with but are unsure of exactly how best to start, or c) Have started using AIT with and would
like to reflect on the experience, get some feedback and ask questions of the teacher on the call about areas of
difficulty or how to proceed.
The tele-conference series consists of five sessions, weekly or as close to that as possible as the presenter’s
schedule permits.
The MAP tele-conference is designed to follow the MAP seminar. As a certification requirement, the telecon involves
presenting a case in which AIT has been utilized in the treatment as a sole or main method. It offers a greater depth
of discussion about how to analyze a case, plan treatment progression, address difficulties as they arise, and to
consider and learn from seeing alternative ways of working with presenting issues in clients using AIT.
The MAP tele-conference series is generally structured in the same way as the Basics telecon, lasting for at least
5 sessions of about one hour’s duration.
Summary of AIT Practitioner Certification requirements
1. Professional Qualification: A master’s degree or higher in a helping profession that focuses on mental health
training from an accredited university, or its equivalent demonstrated to the AIT Advisory Committee.
2. Full attendance and completion of:
- Basics of AIT (3-days) with 5 one-hour Conference Calls utilizing Q and A for support and review
- Mastering AIT Practice with 5 one-hour Conference Calls focusing on case analysis and diagnosis
(Note: The Conference calls are recommended, but not required as follow-up support for anyone who takes the Basic
certification seminars. They are, however, required for certification.)
AIT Advanced Practitioner and Master Practitioner certification is currently under review.
Recertification
Certified AIT practitioners at any level must be recertified every 3 years. The only requirement for recertification
is to take one seminar every three years. This can be a retake, a new seminar, or a 3-day practitioner’s retreat.
Fees
$50/year, renewable annually includes website listing and database referral
Review of Master’s Degree Equivalency $75
Procedure to Apply for Certification and Recertification
Click here to pay the annual certification fee at The Seemorg Market.
In the intial implementation of this new policy, AIT needs everyone to complete a certification form.
Click here to download a certification form.
Exceptions to New Certification Criteria
There are a number of Seemorg practitioners who have been previously certified but who do not meet the new criteria
for certification, as well as a few individuals who are in mid-process towards their certification. AIT will honor
their certifications according to the old criteria. If you are in this group, you are still certified, and can put
that on your business cards, fliers, and bios. If you began the process before we required professional credentials,
you are eligible to be certified with successful completion of the seminars and teleconsultations for Basics and
Presence. However, you will not be listed on the website or on the referral database.
The only other option, which we rejected, would be to have a separate category for grandfathered certification,
including a statement to the effect that these individuals do not meet current criteria for certification. This seems
needlessly pejorative, which is not our intention in any way.
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