Sandtray is an expressive modality for all ages that uses sensory and symbolic means to safely explore the full range of self and experience.MORE ➝
SUPERVISION Training
Explore the complex nature of clinical supervision, the various tasks and roles of a supervisor, techniques and supervision models.
Consultation
Helping seasoned or emerging clinicians enhance professional development.In-person and virtual options, customizable, package rates available.
ETHICS Training
Ethical practice is a way of recognizing and thoughtfully resolving, to the best of one’s ability, the inevitable conflicts that arise in our work.
PLAY Therapy Training
Learn the basics, explore theory, understand the science of play and its clinical applications across populations and more.
Individualized & Mutually Created
Clinical or personal consultations for individuals or organizations; individual sessions utilizing sandtray and expressive arts; and a variety of co-created processes to meet your needs
Whether for personal wellbeing or professional use, expressive modalities can be profoundly impactful. Many of our workshops & retreats provide CE hours for participation.
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
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
Inner Resources Training Institute follows all CE guidelines for the hours it provides and maintains full responsibility for all aspects of programming.
Programs that do not qualify for NBCC and/or APT, or any CE hours are clearly identified. To ensure that the credit hours you receive are applicable for your purposes, please contact the agencies for which you are seeking credit directly. You must attend the entire session to receive credit, no partial credit will be issued.
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