The Sand Therapy Training Institute

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

Registration for this course has ended. Sign up for our newsletter below to stay informed about future courses. Sign up today for our newest course offering, Intro to Narrative Sand Therapy©: A Foundation in Theory & Practice This course will introduce the philosophy and theories that ground NST, as well as demonstrate a variety of… Read more

Registration for this course has ended. Sign up for our newsletter below to stay informed about future courses. Join us this October 17 and 24 for our two-part course where we will emphasize ways existential experience can be represented through symbol activation. Dee Preston-Dillon, MA, Ph.D. will present this course virtually each of the Tuesday… Read more

Registration for these courses has ended. Sign up for our newsletter below to stay informed about future courses. Our fall lineup of courses provides multiple opportunities for learning. We have two, two-part virtual sessions and one hybrid immersion course where participants attend a 3-hour virtual session and choose their preferred day for a 5-hour in-studio… Read more