From Miniatures to Therapy Cards: Creative Sand Tray Work for Trauma Healing

About this training

Watch a Real Class At Your Own Pace Trauma can feel dark, heavy, and overwhelming, even for seasoned therapists. This on-demand training offers a clear, neuroscience-informed map for how to use Sand Tray Therapy, Therapy Cards and other creative modalities to safely guide clients through trauma while staying grounded and regulated yourself. This on-demand training offers a clear, neuroscience-informed map for how to use Sand Tray Therapy to safely guide children, teens and adults through trauma while staying grounded and regulated yourself. How This Training Can Help You ☀️ Explore photos of children’s sand play to learn how to read the energy in the room as an indicator of what the sand play may be communicating. ☀️ Watch three full case studies (with step by step images): a middle school girl using therapy cards and miniatures, and two separate adult cases to see how trauma themes unfold and how to respond. ☀️ Learn a Therapeutic Card Activity that uses sand tray miniatures to deepen insight and healing. What You Will Gain ☀️ A deeper understanding of how trauma presents in sand play across developmental stages. ☀️ Practical ideas for initiating sand tray work with children, teens, and adults, even in mid-session with talk therapy clients. ☀️ Inspiration and confidence to bring Sand Tray Therapy into your own trauma work. Learning Objectives Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to: 🍎 Explain the importance of regulation, attachment, the brain and nervous system, and safety in relation to processing trauma in the playroom. 🍎 Compare an ecosystemic or Jungian approach to sand tray with child-centered sand play in trauma-focused sessions. 🍎 Describe how trauma processes in the brain and the role of deliberate brain integration during sand tray play therapy sessions. 🍎 Identify sand tray materials and therapeutic card activities useful for trauma-focused play therapy. 🍎 Identify when and how to initiate a sand tray during a talking session with older children, teens, and adults.