Advanced Psychotherapy Training

This professional training is experiential, grounded in symbol activation, active imagination, narrative techniques, and play therapy dialogues in sand scenes. Earn 18 CEs with an intensive exploration of existential, narrative, and constructionist therapy approaches relevant to play therapy clients and play therapist skill and depth. Course Focus: Play Therapy, Narrative Sand Therapy, Poetics, Therapeutic Metaphor,… Read more

Dr. Preston-Dillon is participating in a panel discussion with Yolanda Fountain Hardy and Julia Knach on Saturday, May 18, 2024, at 10:00-11:30 am CT. You can attend virtually by registering for the upcoming Annual Conference of the World Association of Sand Therapy Professionals (WASTP). The conference runs Friday, May 17, and Saturday, May 18, and… Read more

Immersion in personal therapeutic processes is crucial in clinical education to develop sensitivity and safe, ethical practice. Through personal experience, therapists learn effective interventions and recognize harmful ones. Personal immersion and consultations enhance therapists’ self-awareness, empathy, and effectiveness in techniques like Narrative Sand Therapy. This approach also promotes deep personal validation and professional insight, facilitating… Read more

Take your retreat to a professional level and earn 14 CEs this May. During our time together, at our retreat, Pausing Time: A Facilitated Retreat to Reflect on Ways of Being, you will have time and space to safely immerse in the symbol process, conceptualize sand scenes from humanistic, existential, and constructionist theories, and apply… Read more

Registration for this course has ended. Sign up for our newsletter below to stay informed about future courses. Our 15-hour interactive course offers an introduction to Narrative Sand Therapy©, a deeply transformational approach to sand therapy suitable for clients of all ages. It utilizes the imaginative activation of symbols to provide clients with a safe,… Read more

Oh! You missed it! This course was offered on March 13, 2024. It was a three-hour course that offered the opportunity for some attendees to earn ethics CEUs. The session focused on the therapist’s scope of practice for expressive therapies. Dr. Dee examined ethical considerations for expressive therapies. Examples were given for challenges and positive… Read more

Registration for this course has ended. Sign up for our newsletter below to stay informed about future courses. Therapists who seek new skills and insights using symbols in sand registered for this program which began February 12, 2024. The cost was just $1,499 and includes: The Level One Certificate program introduces clinicians to an approach… Read more

The Sand Therapy Training Institute has earned the APT Approved Provider designation through the Association for Play Therapy (APT). We are APT Approved Provider 05-161. When participating in our activities, mental health professionals can earn one play therapy credit hour for each 60 minutes you spend with us. We look forward to your registrations! Read more

Registration for this course has ended. Sign up for our newsletter below to stay informed about future courses. Join us for this advanced series where we will focus on the therapist’s skills for engagement with symbols and story in sand scenes. To earn the Level 1 Certificate, participants must complete the following: . Read more

The American Psychological Association has approved The Sand Therapy Training Institute to sponsor continuing education. With this approval, our courses, now carry continuing education credits from the APA for you. CE credit is available for attendees who are present for the entire program. One CE is awarded for each hour of attendance. We ask that… Read more