Clinical Training

Sandtray Training

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

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EXPRESSIVE ARTS & Play

Whether for personal wellbeing or professional use, expressive modalities can be profoundly impactful. Many of our workshops & retreats provide CE hours for participation.

Personal Exploration

Retreats

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Workshops

Kintsugi

Experience powerful healing metaphors through ancient Japanese practice of Kintsugi, the breaking, adorning, and rejoining with gold. AUG 2025 ➝

Femmage & Fromage

An evening to practice, connect with, and celebrate the history of feminist fabric collage and women’s work in textiles. And eat cheese. SEE 2024 ➝

Coaching & CONSULTATION

Individualized & Mutually Created

Personal consultations; individual sessions utilizing sandtray and expressive arts; and a variety of co-created processes to meet your needs

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Calendar

New opportunities added regularly.

August 2025

August 1 & 2, 2025: Practicing With Play, Creative Interventions Across the Lifespan On the Road, hosted by Timberview Ranch & Retreat in Clinton, IL

August 15-17, 2025: Sandtray Foundations, Part 1

August 22, 1pm-3pm ET: Sandtray Consultation Group ZOOM

August 29 & 30: The Art & Science of Play Therapy, an Introduction

September 2025

September 10, 11am-1pm ET: Monthly Play Therapy Consultation Group ZOOM

September 12, 10am-12pm ET: Monthly Play Therapy Consultation Group

September 17, 10am-12pm ET: Monthly Play Therapy Consultation Group ZOOM

September 20, 9:30am-4:00 pm ET : Sand, Symbol, Self Skill Development & Retreat Day

October 2025

October 8, 11am-1pm ET: Monthly Play Therapy Consultation Group ZOOM

October 15, 10am-12pm ET: Monthly Play Therapy Consultation Group ZOOM

October 17, 10am-12pm ET: Monthly Play Therapy Consultation Group

October 24, 1pm-3pm ET: Sandtray Consultation Group ZOOM

November 2025

November 1: Kintsugi, Filling the Cracks with Gold

November 7, 11:30am-1 pm ET: Ethics Discussion ZOOM

November 14-16, 2025: Sandtray Foundations, Part 2

May 2026

May 14-17: Stilling the Waters Within Retreat

ANY TIME

Using Sandtray in Supervision ON-DEMAND

Book Study for Partners in Play: An Alderian Approach to Play Therapy ON-DEMAND

Ethics & Cultural Competence COMING SOON

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