Trauma Informed Sand Play Therapy by Dr Patricia Sherwood

Trauma is characterized by unintegrated heightened experiences. These are often unconscious and stored in the right hemisphere of the brain as sensory data. Spontaneous sandplay is powerful in making conscious, the unconscious in a manner that is com­passionate, soulful and transforming.

Dr Sherwood will present structured sequences to support outcomes for clients using sandplay. These directed sequences are concise, focused and transformative using repeatable sequences for a range of traumatic clinical presentations such as substance addictions, cutting, depression, grief and suicide ideation.

Trauma informed sandplay processes facilitate the processing, release and transformation of trauma and promote mental health recovery for clients.