Sand Tray Therapy

Sand tray therapy is an approach that uses small figurines and sometimes water to build scenes and stories that represent a person's inner world within a sand-filled tray. It can help one become more aware of current challenges or become aware of something unknown. I often offer it as an intervention to all my clients, whether a child adolescent or adult. It is an incredibly relaxing activity in itself, but it is amazing what insights can be discovered. It is a great compliment to talk therapy.

Sand Tray Therapy is a wonderful therapy I have seen support every age with a great many of issues and wants. On a technical level Sand Tray Therapy is the best mode of helping find greater meaning, resources and new ways forward to life's issues. This is because it is the chance to allow your creativity - whether you feel its there or not - to find the problem as it lives in your personally and form there builds the bridges to solutions and a more integrated life.

I am recognized as an expert in Sand Tray Therapy, a powerful therapeutic modality that utilizes a sandbox and miniature figures to facilitate self-expression, exploration, and healing. My expertise is anchored in specialized training under leading figures in the field, specifically Amy Flaherty Hood of the Southern Sandtray Institute and Terry Kottman of the Encouragement Zone.

Sand tray therapy is a form of expressive therapy where individuals create scenes in a sandbox using miniature figures to represent their inner thoughts and emotions. This method helps clients visually and symbolically express and explore deep psychological conflicts and traumas, facilitating understanding and healing in a non-verbal, creative way. It’s especially useful for accessing and resolving issues that might be difficult to articulate, providing a powerful medium for emotional insight.

I received my training in Sand Tray Therapy from the Institute of Playful Healing and am working toward certification. I am trained and experienced in use of sand tray with individual trauma work, children and adolescents, couples, families and groups.

Sand tray is a fantastic modality that lets clients explore their thoughts and feelings on a deeper level.

I received training in sand-tray and was supervised under a sand-tray therapist as well.

Sand tray therapy is a therapeutic approach that utilizes a sandbox and miniature figures to help clients express their thoughts, emotions, and experiences non-verbally. This technique is rooted in play therapy and allows individuals, particularly children, to stay engaged in the session while exploring complex feelings, traumatic experiences, and interpersonal dynamics in a safe environment.

I have training in Sandtray through an online program called the Southern Sandtray Institute. I've also attended a Sandtray summit to get more hands on experience in sandtray. I have experience using sandtray with adults to help bring about deep change and healing. Sandtray helps clients use both parts of their brain, which can be especially helpful for grief and trauma. On top of this, sandtray can be a refreshing change to traditional talk therapy or when talking isn't working.

I utilize Sand Tray Therapy as an expressive technique and intervention to tap into the non-verbal, emotional and creative side of the brain. Clients use a variety of miniatures placed in a sand tray to symbolically identify and work through thoughts, feelings, behaviors, conflicts and struggles. Most people are able to gain new perspectives and insights that are quite meaningful for them.

Sand tray therapy is a powerful therapeutic intervention that uses a specially designed tray filled with sand and a collection of miniature figurines and objects to help you connect with your inner, symbolic world.

Sand tray therapy is a therapeutic modality that utilizes a tray filled with sand and a collection of miniature objects to create a visual representation of an individual's inner world. This powerful and non-verbal approach allows clients to explore their thoughts, feelings, and experiences in a safe and symbolic way. It allows for a more experimental and symbolic form of communication offering a different perspective and facilitating self-discovery.

I am passionate about using sand tray play therapy with my adult populations. Sand tray helps us get behind the words when talking about our “stuff” is difficult. Sand tray is also a very effective technique for trauma therapy that can help us externalize our experience to help us process it.

Sand Tray therapy is a modality that allows a person to create their internal world externally through the utilization of miniatures in the sand. It is a creative way to express yourself in a different way than talk therapy and allows a person's inner thoughts, struggles and concerns to be reflected in the sand and to gain a different perspective. I am currently trained in Sand Tray levels one and two and am excited to continue my education in sand tray.

The Sandtray provides a safe, contained space to express and explore your inner world in a tangible way. The tray can be used with or without a prompt. Sometimes, the tray can help communicate or illustrate something words cannot. The scenes created with a tray can help clients experience emotional release, gain new realizations, and practice out fictitious change leading to real change in their life. I utilize sandtray therapy on its own as well as in conjunction with parts work and EMDR.