WHAT IS SANDTRAY THERAPY
And the day came when
The risk it took to remain
Tight inside the Bud
Was More Painful than the risk it took to Bloom.
Anais Nin
Sandtray Therapy is an expressive and dynamic process used in working with children, adolescents, individual adults, couples and families. A Sandtray is described by some as comparable to ‘a waking dream’. Hopes, dreams, fears, dilemmas, and a multitude of ‘feeling’ states can be played out in the sand by using meaningful images that allow conscious and unconscious aspects of the psyche to emerge. The meaning of the ‘play’ evolves as the client experiences it and shares it with the therapist.
Sandtray Therapy concretizes personal experience into three-dimensional form. The Sandtray creates the opportunity for a rich and personalized vocabularly to develop whereby a figure or scene captures feelings, emotions and conflicts that previously had no verbal expression. Sandtray Therapy allows that ‘stuck’ patterns of behaviors be revealed, and new, more fulfilling ones begin to emerge.