Introduction to Sand Therapy

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Sand Therapy is a unique form of psychotherapy developed by the late Dora Kalff, a Swiss-based Jungian analyst, from the “World Technique” of Margaret Lowenfeld. She named it Sandplay. Today it is used worldwide by an increasing number of counsellors, therapists and analysts and is generally known as “Sand Therapy”.

Sand Therapy is a visual display created by the client as an insight into their world and how he/she is responding to their lives.

In Sand therapy the person’s creative energies can be stimulated and their spiritual and psychological life can be expressed creatively and made physically visible by working with their hands. This ‘hands on’ approach in Sand Therapy initiates a process that can lead to insight, healing and wellbeing of the whole person.

Sand Therapy helps us with past, present and future events. It may look simple, as it involves a sand tray and toy figures, but it has a profound effect. The figures are used by the client to make arrangements or pictures in the sand, providing a powerful entry point for practitioner and client to explore the conscious and unconscious world of the sandtray’s creator. Sand Therapy is both illuminating and liberating. It brings a depth of understanding visually of what has all too often been blocked verbally. Sometimes the best therapy is simply allowing the invisible to become visible.

This method of problem solving is simple and safe to use, it is suitable for all ages and is especially suitable for children and people who are visual.