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.
— Grace Shivka, Licensed Professional Counselor in Phoenix, AZSand tray therapy allows individuals to build their world using miniatures and sand. This experiential technique is helpful for all ages to visualize aspects of their current situation they may not have considered otherwise.
— Morgan Ticum, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in Overland Park, KSSometimes people have a hard time saying what's on their mind either because they can't articulate it or because their brain works more in pictures than in words. Enter Sand Tray Therapy. A client is given a prompt based on what they are working on in therapy or by identifying something they want to work through. By choosing figurines and placing them in a sand tray world, a client can problem solve and learn more about themselves. It's pretty awesome.
— Michelle Fortier, Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Tallahassee, FLFor kids and adults! We will explore your inner world, what is just below the surface of your consciousness, and bring to light what’s been here all along. Sometimes we need to get out of our analytical thinking mind and into our imagination to explore symbolism and see and feel how our patterns and mechanical ways of thinking and being impact us on a daily basis. Sandtray is a fun creative way to get distance between ourselves and the heavy gunk we’ve been lugging around in our psyches.
— Dena Ehrlich, Marriage and Family Therapist Associate in Oakland, CAI 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.
— Lori Allen, Licensed Professional Counselor in West Monroe, LASand tray is taking figurines and placing them in a tray in a way that feels right to the client. There is valuable information that can immerge from the types of figurines, and the placement that can help indicate areas that need healing in a client. Together, Aimee works with the client to address the topics brought up in the sand tray.
— Aimee Christensen, Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor in Meridian, IDI am trained in both Foundations and Advanced Techniques in Sand Tray Play Therapy, including the use of Sandtray to resolve trauma, virtual uses of Sand Tray, and the combination of EMDR & Sandtray techniques. Trauma affects the area of the brain dedicated to speech and reason, making it hard to fully process using only words. Sand Tray is a great tool for all ages (children through adults) that can allow you to process past events using your creative right brain.
— Jamie Martos, Therapist in Helendale, CASand tray therapy is a distinctive form of therapeutic intervention that combines play therapy with psychotherapeutic theories. Adult and child clients are provided with a sandbox and a variety of miniature figures and objects to create a physical manifestation of their internal thoughts, feelings, and struggles. The therapist facilitates this process, providing a safe, contained space for exploration. As clients arrange and rearrange these miniatures, they metaphorically explore their worlds.
— Brad Ploof, MS, CMHC, ALC, Associate Professional Clinical Counselor in Albertville, ALI 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.
— Mary Bernard, Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern in DeLand, FLSand 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.
— Erik Johnston, Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor in Overland Park, KSSand 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.
— Mary Moran, Licensed Professional Counselor in Chandler,