Through case examples and photographic slides, participants will learn how to use sandplay with clients, create a healing environment, understand initial trays, analyze sandplay pictures, identify transformational themes in the sandplay journey, and appreciate the importance of symbolic communication in therapy.
Presenter: RIE ROGERS MITCHELL, Ph.D., ABPP
is a licensed psychologist and professor of educational psychology and counseling at CSUN. She is a registered play therapist and supervisor (RPT-S), a certified sandplay therapist and teacher (CST-T), vice-president of the International Society of Sandplay Therapy, and former president of Sandplay Therapists of America. Rie is co-author of Sandplay: Past, Present and Future (Routledge, 1994) and Supervision of Sandplay Therapy (Routledge, 2007) with Harriet Friedman. She teaches internationally and has published numerous book chapters and journal articles in sandplay, play therapy, and other professional areas.
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