Sand Therapy: A Powerful Tool to Create Safety and Healing for Trauma, Anxiety & More

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Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

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Speaker

Tammi Van Hollander, LCSW, RPT-S™ Related seminars and products

Main Line Play Therapy

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Tammi Van Hollander, LCSW, RPT-S™, is a renowned speaker, trainer, and clinical social worker with over 25 years of experience. Specializing in attachment, sandtray play therapy, and sensory integration, she holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania and extensive training from the Family and Play Therapy Center in Philadelphia. A certified advanced trainer for the Nurtured Heart Approach® and founding board member of the World Association for Sand Therapy Professionals, Tammi’s published works include Casey’s Greatness Wings and The Bibliotherapy Toolkit: 100+ Creative and Playful Story-Based Interventions. She created Casey’s Greatness Sticks and Cards, teaches virtual Sandtray classes, co-taught the inaugural Sandtray therapy class in China, and delivered a TEDx Talk, Stories in the Sand: Healing Trauma, Anxiety and Grief, in October 2023.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Tammi Van Hollander is the owner of Main Line Therapy, LLC. and has employment relationships with the Expressive Arts Therapies and the Mid-Atlantic Play Therapy Institute. She receives royalties as a published author. Tammi Van Hollander receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Tammi Van Hollander is a member of the Association for Play Therapy and the National Association for Social Workers. She is a board member of the World Association for Sand Therapy Professionals and a program committee chair for the Specialists of Schools.

Objectives

1. Demonstrate the therapeutic value of sandtray play therapy to improve client engagement.
2. Demonstrate safe and effective outlets to help clients heal trauma, reduce anxiety, improve relationships, and gain resilience.
3. Demonstrate how to integrate sand therapy into your practice with children, and adolescents to offer safe psychological distance to deepen healing.

Outline

• Intro and History to Sand Therapy
  • Difference between sandtray and sandplay
  • Different theoretical approaches to sand therapy
• Benefits of Incorporating into your Practice, Agency, or School Setting
  • Deep healing and transformation
  • Offers whole-brain integration
  • Quiets mind and body
  • Full sensory experience
• Neurobiology of Sand Therapy
  • Expressive tools to deepen healing and provide safe psychological distance from client challenges
  • Therapeutic powers of play in the sand
  • Client-centered /nondirective sand therapy
  • Directive sand therapy
• Video of sand therapy with teen
• Case study for family and individual sand therapy

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Mental Health Clinicians
• Play Therapists
• Psychologists
• Psychiatrists
• School Counselors
• Social Workers