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| Sacramento Counseling by California Marriage and Family Counselors. Serving Carmichael, Fair Oaks, Orangevale, Gold River, Granite Bay, Folsom, Roseville, Rocklin, Loomis, Antelope, North Highlands, Rio Linda, Rancho Cordova, Elk Grove and Laguna. |
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Sand Tray TherapyThis therapeutic intervention requires a trusting environment and a willingness to open heart and mind to the "unspoken", "unknown" feeling place that guards secrets, angers, hurts and fears and experiences we can't yet speak of. The essentials of sand tray therapy are a specially proportioned sand tray, a source of water, shelves of miniatures of multitude variety: people, animals, buildings, bridges, vehicles, furniture, food, plants, rocks, shells-the list goes on-and on. An experienced therapist provides the freedom and the protection that encourages you to access your inner, often unrealized, selves in a safe and non-judgmental space. The therapist as a witness is an essential part of the method, but this therapist is in the mode of "appreciating", not "judging", what the sand player does. It is necessary that the therapist follows the play and stays in tune with it, but not intrude. The process of touching the sand, adding water, making the scenes, changing the scenes, seems to elicit the twin urges of healing and transformation, which are goals of therapy. This does not mean that the therapist remains distant or unresponsive and you may agree with your therapist to do a guided sand tray around a specific person, feeling or event. When relaxed and open you can allow yourself to work through many phases of healing and growth, cope with and understand your struggle for wholeness and self-awareness. Sand tray is usually done adjunctively to talk therapy, which carries the interpretive aspects of the psychotherapeutic work. Review and more discussion of the trays themselves can happen for years after the process is completed. The heart of sand tray therapy lies in allowing our inner self to guided our choices, and then it allows us to listen to the message we are giving ourselves about creating, overcoming and completing a phase of growth and healing. Below are photos of trays completed by our therapists and used with permission. <Insert photos here> |
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