Beyond Words: Using Sandtray with Adolescents and Adults

Course overview

Join this interactive training to help you integrate the creative, symbolic, and healing power of sandtray into sessions with teen and adult clients. Sandtray offers a profound, nonverbal pathway for clients to explore their inner pathways, process trauma, and gain new perspectives. This 6 ce hour training is appropriate for graduate students and licensed mental health providers. It is approved by the BSRB 26 009. Objectives: Describe the foundational principles and history of Sandtray Therapy, including its theoretical underpinnings, materials, and the therapist role in facilitating the process. Explore the therapeutic benefits of sandtray therapy. Demonstrate the basic structure of a Sandtray session, from setting up the environment and introducing the activity to clients, to observing, processing, and closing the session. Experience creating a sandtray world as a client and processing as a therapist. Identify and reflect on symbolic themes and patterns that commonly emerge in sandtray creations. Begin to identify possible prompts to use in your therapy practice related to your theoretical orientation.