Additional Trainings: Sara D. Moore, LMSW*, CHt, IEMT Practitioner

Here are some of the trainings and activities I’ve done over the years.

Additional Trainings/education

Improvisation & Storytelling with Raffi Feghali (11/2025) The Association for Integral Eye Movement Practioners

Mental Health Documentation & Medical Necessity: Simple, Clear Guidelines that Maintain

Quality of Care and Protect Your Practice-PESI (7.5 hours 10/25)

IEMT-Intergral Eye Movement Technique- Certified Practitioner (8/25)

Transference/Countertransference, Journey Clinical-1 CEU (9/25)

American Heart Association First Aid Training (5/25)

Somatic Therapy and KAP, Journey Clinical (3/25)

NYS Mandated Reporter Certification, NYS Office of Family & Children Services (3/25)

Brainspotting Phase One, Quiet Mind Therapy (2024)

Harm Reduction Therapy, Journey Clinical (4/24 1 CEU)

The Basics of Brainspotting (2/24, Quiet Mind Therapy, 2 CEU)

Psychedelic Integration: Premise & Promise for Journey Clinical Members, Fluence (10/23 6 CEU)

Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy, Theory & Methodology, Fluence (11/23, 5 CEU)

Navigating Difficult Experiences, Journey Clinical (2023)

Heartland Hypnosis Conference various trainings, 2022, 2023, 2024

National Guild of Hypnotists, Hypnosis for Pain Management, Larry Garrett (November, 2022)

Mike Mandel Hypnosis Academy:  Coursework in -Foundations, Ericksonian Principles, Power Language, Impromptu Hypnosis, Metaphors, Deepeners & Confusion, Pain Management, Self-Hypnosis, MindScaping.

Heartland Hypnosis Conference, St. Louis Missouri (2022)

National Guild of Hypnotists Rapid Trauma Release, Dr. Will Horton (Nov 2021)

Certified Telehealth Provider-Evergreen (2020-2021)

National Guild of Hypnotists, Certified Hypnotherapist (2018-present)

HypnoBiz membership (2019)

HeartMath Institute membership (2019)

NYS dept of health-COVID emergency hotline training (OMH Emotional Support Hotline)2020

HypnoBiz 2020

Hypnosis for Trauma & PTSD Certification course, PESI 11/19  12.5 CEU

Telehealth for mental health professionals, PESI 12:5 CEU

Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD On the Global Coronavirus, Steering Ourselves & Our clients through new and developing traumas.

Universal Life Church Certificate of Ministry

Rochester Society of Friends Quakers  Committee for prevention of sexual abuse, Pastoral Care 

Vagus Nerve training -SterlingCooper

YMCA employee training

Open Path therapist-discounted  rates for therapy

Continuing Education: PESI

• Dream Work: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
• The Bisexual Client: Trauma Focused Care
• Setting Ethical Limits for Caring & Competent Professionals
• An Introduction to EMDR and Related Approaches in Psychotherapy

• Hypnosis for Trauma: PESI  2019, 15 CEUs
• Compassion Fatigue: Prevention, Intervention, & Professional Resiliency

Tree of Hope Counseling, 11/18/16, 3 CEUs

• Trauma & Its Impact of Young Children

Children’s Institute, 1/26/17, 2 CEUs

• Mandatory Reporter Training: Identifying & Reporting Child Abuse & Maltreatment

New York State Office of Children & Family Services

• Brain Gym: An Intro to Educational Kinesiology & Evidence to Support It.

Lisa Walther, Nazareth College, 6/25/15

• Infant Massage

Janet Rosenberg, Step by Step Developmental Services

• Sensory Related Issues and Occupational Therapy

Step by Step Developmental Services

NET CEU coursework:

• An Introduction to EMDR and Related Approaches in Psychotherapy
• Understanding & Treating Spiritual Abuse
• Families of Chronically Ill Patients
• Cannabis & Cannabis Use Disorders
• Medical Marijuana & Other Cannabinoids
• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Sensory Processing Disorders: Impact on Care
• Digital Technology & Domestic Violence

Monroe County Department of Health Trainings:

1. Quarterly & Budget Meeting 1/03
2. Waivers and Team Meetings, 2/24/00
3. Early Intervention Assistive Technology Play Liaison Process, 3/10/00
4. Autism Training, 3/23/00
5. Individual Family Service Plans, November & December 2000

• Developmental Disabilities, CDS 8/99
• Advocacy and Autism, (NY State Commission on Quality of Care & Strong Center for Developmental Disabilities), 10/22/99
• “Living with Grief,” National Bereavement Teleconference, moderator: Cokie Roberts, sponsored by Hospice Foundation of America, 4/26/00
• Sexual Abuse, sponsored by Monroe County Sexual Assault Resource Council, 2000
• “Accessing Services for Preschool Children with Autism”, by Early Childhood Directions Center, & Center for Protection and Advocacy Services of Western New York, 2000
• OMRDD-Access to Services-Review of Care at Home Waiver Programs, 2/7/01
• “Facilitating Prelinguistic Communication Skills in Children with Developmental Disabilities” (Summit Educational Resources)
• “Examining Health Care Issues” (Roberts Wesleyan College)
• American Sign Language: Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced, and Conversational (The Health Association) 2002
• “Autism /Asperger’s” (Future Horizons Inc.),
• “DDSO Waiver Training” (Monroe County Department of Health Early Intervention Program)
• “Empowering Families to Help Their Young Children with Behavioral and/or Developmental Challenges” (Monroe #1 BOCES)
• Infant and child CPR, first aid, SKIP (strategies in crisis intervention), quality assurance, and blood borne pathogens 
• Effective Instruction & Strategies for Adolescents with HFA/Asperger Syndrome” (Brenda Smith Miles, Ph.D., December 2002)
• Completing the SCREEN using criteria and standards established by the Office of Health Systems Management and New York State Department of Health, (Professional Standards Review Council of America, Inc) Syracuse, NY, September 2003

Related Activities:

Participation in the following: 

Group Facilitator, Hypnotherapy & Mindfulness for KAP Providers (2024-present)

Presenter, Heartland Hypnosis Conference, Improvisation for Hypnotherapists (2023)

Presenter, Heartland Hypnosis Conference, Ketamine Assisted Therapy and Hypnosis (2024)

        Featured guest on Evan Dawson’s “Connections” radio show https://www.wxxinews.org/post/connections-strategies-coping-grief-during-pandemic

Facilitate Monthly Online Support Group for Chronic Pain (2022-present)

National Guild of Hypnotists (2018-present)

Good Luck Improv (2023-2024)

Women Fiction Writers Association (2024-2025)

Rochester Fringe Festival (2017-present)

Rochester Women’s Community Chorus (2023-present)

        Rochester Rhapsody Holiday Chorus (2021)

Rochester Society of Friends (Quakers) Committe for Sexual Abuse (2019-2021)

Focus Theater Intro to Improv for Tweens Workshops

RAIHN-Rochester Area Interfaith Hospitality Network

National Association of Social Workers

   Roberts Wesleyan College-Community Theater Board of Directors (2years) 

   Volunteer with “Friends of the Gates Library”

Rochester Shakespeare Players Theater

Greece Community Players Theater 

Greater Rochester Shakespeare Players