Advanced Psychotherapy Training

This professional training is experiential, grounded in symbol activation, active imagination, and dialogues in sand scenes.

Earn 18 CEs with intensive training and immersion in existential, narrative and constructionist therapy approaches.

Course Focus:

Play Therapy, Expressive Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Process Hypnosis

Description:

Time is a powerful influence in psychotherapy, for clinician and client. Participants will explore the influence of time as archetype, metaphor, poetic, and marker of memory and mortality.

How does time influence therapy process, life decisions, relationships, and identity in the context of existential and cultural experience? How is time represented in sand scenes and in symbol dialogues?

This course offers the space and time that is rarely available to therapists to immerse themselves in expressive and play therapies with time for depth, meaningful personal experience, enhancing empathy and aesthetic congruence.

This three-day experiential process will focus on the nature of time, inside the clinical moment and outside in collective myths, symbols and rituals. Objectives address therapist preparation for existential depth and attunement to culture, therapist-client collaboration, and therapeutic
spontaneity for play and expressive therapies. We will engage with images and metaphors for time, through silence, symbol voices and stories

A constructionist, existential framework for narrative therapy is especially helpful with client trauma. It is a process to help reclaim identity, build authentic connection, align purpose with congruent meaning, and integrate validation for developmental stories.

This training is ground in permission, protection, heightened presence, empathy, authenticity and non-judging wonderment. An experiential process, participants will immerse in active imagination, symbol activation, engage symbol voices and silence, practice invention in
spontaneity, and wonderment for the remarkable phenomena of time.

Join us to explore depth and heightened attunement to mind-body-creativity.

Objectives for the Clinical Immersion Track and 18 CE Hours

Participants will:

1. Create sand scenes that reflect the influence of time on client and therapist processes, readiness and cultural intersubjectivity.
2. Distinguish the limits and accessibility of countertransference when processing sand scenes relevant to the function of time in play therapy.
3. State how time, in its archetypal and metaphoric conceptions, influences the purpose/intention/selection of play therapy materials and approaches.
4. Describe how time shapes the perception of necessary and adequate training to achieve play therapy competencies.
5. State three ways to activate and process symbols and metaphors of time.
6. Describe two practices to ground salient attitude/ skills for play therapy and expressive arts therapies.
7. Explain the role of the therapist and the influence of time creating safe, meaningful, experience in play and expressive therapies.
8. State the difference between collaborative engagement and traditional power arrangements with play and expressive therapy.
9. Explain the use of time metaphors during case consultation and supervision.
10. Practice shifting states of awareness/ perception exploring the flow of intuition, knowledge, ability and attitude for aesthetic congruence.
11. State three components of clinical competency that are salient for scope of practice, especially with expressive therapies, play, art and drama projective approaches.
12. Define aesthetic congruence and describe the relevance for the use of symbols in play therapy for clients across cultures and developmental stages.
13. State one aspect of clinical competency that is grounded through experiential immersion and play therapy.
14. State two existential experiences that may be represented during an immersion activity centered on the archetype of time.
15. Describe two benefits for clients when therapists immerse in creative therapies, especially approaches they use with clients for art, drama, play and expressive therapy.
16. State two risks when therapists do not immerse themselves in the expressive therapy they use, especially critical in supervision and in play therapy with children and adolescents.
17. Describe three strategies for therapists to build competency for expressive-projective techniques especially relevant for play therapy and expressive forms of clinical engagement.
18. Explain the role and responsibility of therapists responding to intersubjectivity during expressive and play therapies.
19. Describe developmental shifts in time awareness represented with symbols and poetics.
20. Describe patterns of time in your life and the ways time shapes your clinical work.
21. Describe insights regarding time as a mind-body-cultural phenomenon that shapes your therapeutic engagement with clients and in supervision.

This training is approved by APT Approved Provider 05-161 for 15 CE hours.

The Sand Therapy Training Institute (TSTTI) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. TSTTI maintains responsibility for this program and its content.