Dates: November 14-16, 2025
Times: 9:00 am-5:30 pm ET
Location: Bloomington, IN
Instructor: Heather Maritano
Contact Hours: 20 CEU/ 3 days
Prerequisites: Foundations 1
Description
Building on Foundations, part 1, participants in this 3-day workshop continue to develop their understanding and use of sandtray therapy in clinical practice.
The training prioritizes clinician presence and the unique therapist-client relationship as foundational for facilitating sandtray. There are numerous ways of understanding and multiple theories or applications for sandtray. We explore principles that assist clinician decision making. This course includes discussion of professional and ethical issues related to all aspects of treatment, including documentation and clinical conceptualization.
Specific techniques will be explored that can enhance exploration of client concerns. We will addresshame, grief, trauma, and other attachment based issues. Particular focus will be given to the clinical relationship as it relates to transference, countertransference, and co-transference. Participants will have opportunities to refine and integrate therapeutic skills and understanding through hands-on practice.
Each participant will create multiple individual sandtray worlds.
Objectives
- Develop skills for facilitating sandtray play therapy in clinical practice;
- Identify ways to understand and document the process of sandtray play therapy;
- Assess treatment variables in sandtray play therapy;
- Describe the significance of the clinical relationship to healing in clinical practice;
- Demonstrate how to recognize and make use of countertransference in sandtray play therapy;
- Describe the function of presence and the witnessing role during sandtray play therapy;
- Identify shame as a challenge in clinical practice;
- Utilize personal sandtray for integration of learning goals;
- Identify ethical practices, competencies, & risks in sandtray play therapy
Prerequisites
Foundations for Sandtray, Part 1 or permission to join
Course Details & Materials, Available September 1, 2025
All sections must be marked as complete to receive certificate.
Inner Resources Training Institute is an approved provider for the following organizations:
Indiana Professional Licensing Board has approved this organization to provide category 1 continuing education hours for LSWs, LCSWs, LMFTs, and LMHCs. Provider # 98000765A
NBCC, ACEP No. 7363
Association for Play Therapy Approved Provider #07-200
Registered Sand Therapist Trainer RST-C/T
World Association of Sand Therapy Professionals
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