TEMENOS Psychotherapy & Counselling

Sandplay Therapy

Sandplay is a hands-on physical modality; as the client physically engages in the play with miniatures, sand and water, the conscious mind opens up and relaxed to unconscious processes, enabling them to take symbolic form, similar to the dream experience. According to Jung, symbols acts as healing agents. They provide a language of the unknowable and unspeakable; they bridge and reconcile the internal and external worlds. Symbolic expression enables the healing of traumas, internal wounds, and disowned parts to be made visible in a concrete three-dimensional form that can be healed, explored, and integrated into the consciousness.

Sandplay for Trauma Survivors

The main aim of trauma treatment is the integration of traumatic memories with a completed personal narrative. Sandplay, by utilising kinaesthetic and sensory modalities, allows the exploration and reconstruction of trauma narratives in a non-threatening way, which ultimately brings about recovery.

The process of Sandplay provides an emotionally safe, facilitative, and protected environment to explore and to heal. As such, it offers a space for clients whose cognitive and verbal skills might otherwise form a barrier to safely processing memories of trauma.

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