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Advanced Sand Tray Therapy: Uncovering Unconscious Conflicts in Play Therapy Description

This training is for therapists who have already completed an introductory training in Sand Tray Therapy. In this experiential Sand Tray training, we will provide opportunities to understand the neurobiology effects of Sand Tray, and how it can be an effective assessment tool. Techniques and application of clinical theory in this training will support the Play Therapist as they uncover deeper meaning of the client’s traumatic experiences and attachment issues, while allowing for the healing process to occur.  Discussion of Sand Tray cases and advanced interpretation skills help the Play Therapist understand their client’s worldview and provide a healing space through the art of Sand Tray.

Advanced Sand Tray Therapy: Uncovering Unconscious Conflicts in Play Therapy Objectives

• Participants will identify techniques for Sand Tray as an effective assessment technique.
• Participants will discover the importance of the therapist’s attunement and co-regulation with the client in the processing of Sand Trays.
• Discuss advanced Sand Tray concepts to support clients with traumatic experiences, interpersonal conflict, avoidance and resistance.
• Demonstrate at least two Sand Tray directives to support processing in Couples, Families and Groups.

Training Agenda

12:00 pm Playful Check-In

12:10 -1:30 pm Sand Tray as an assessment techniques with common presenting concerns

1:30 – 2:45 pm Attunement and co-regulation in Sand Tray

2:45 – 3:00 pm Break

3:00 – 3:45 pm First experiential Sand Tray

3:45 -4:15 pm Sand Tray with Couples, Families and Groups

4:15 – 5:15 pm Second experiential Sand Tray

5:15 – 6:00 pm Advanced interpretation and processing of sand trays

6:00 pm Dismissal

In Person Location

All trainings require at least a Master’s Degree in a Counseling, Marriage and Family Therapy, Social Work or related field, and completion of EMDR Basic Training (for EMDRIA Approved Advanced Workshops).  Graduate Students may enroll in the training, and understand that continued education credit cannot be provided to individuals who do not hold proper credentials.  

Play Therapy credit is available to licensed mental health professionals and graduate students in a mental health program. 

Embark Counseling Services, LLC only assumes the responsibility for the registration part of the event.  All other costs are the responsibility of the registrant, unless otherwise stated.

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If you have difficulty registering with the Ticket below, please email trainings@embark-counseling.com of your registration confirmation, and send payment to either one of these options:

PayPal: @TeresaBartch0728

Venmo: @embarkcounseling14

You will receive an email confirming your registration at this training once your request and payment are received.

Registration closes at 7:00 pm on October 31, 2024.

Advanced Sand Tray Therapy: Uncovering Unconscious Conflicts in Play Therapy Trainer

Teresa Paterson Bartch, LPC, LCPC, RPT-S™

Teresa is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor™.  She owns Embark Counseling Services, a group practice in the Greater Kansas City Metropolitan Area, specializing in working with children and teens, from an attachment informed, family systems lens.  She has extensive experience providing trauma competent clinical services, along with her Therapy Dog in Training, Rafi Rose, as well as a board approved clinical supervisor in Missouri and Kansas.  She completed her Play Therapy Training at Mid-America Nazarene University, and has completed numerous specialized trainings in working with children and adolescents, complex trauma, developmental trauma, autism spectrum disorders and anxiety.  She utilizes Play Therapy, Family Systems, Adlerian and EMDR in her clinical work.  She is a certified EMDR therapist and an EMDRIA Approved Consultant.  She is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, where she enjoys training and supervising emerging mental health professionals.

Board Positions:

Kansas Counseling Association President-Elect (2022-2023)

Kansas Counseling Association President (2023-2024)

Missouri Association for Play Therapy (2022-2024)

This workshop and presenter have no conflict of interest in this workshop, nor is there any commercial or financial support, or any affiliate agreements.

Obtaining CE Credit

Attendees must attend the training in its entirety, with camera on (for live webinar attendance), complete the training evaluation and a post-test (for live webinar attendance) to be eligible for the CE Certificate. Certificates of attendance will be emailed within 7 business days of the completion of the training and receipt of the evaluation and a passing score on the post-test (80% or higher), if applicable.

Workshop Cancellation and Refund Policy

Workshop Cancellation and Refund Policy (Heading 2)

Non-Refundable Fees:  $35.00 Administrative Fee is included in your registration fee for each event.

Cancellation requests must be made in writing, and postmarked (or emailed) no later than seven (7) days prior to the date of the event. 

Cancellations received at least seven days prior to the event will receive a refund, less the $35.00 administrative fee.  Cancellations received within seven days, no shows, or requests after the event will not receive a refund or credit toward future events.  

Embark Counseling Services, LLC receives the right to cancel any training, workshops or courses that receive fewer than five (5) registrants within two weeks of the scheduled event and may be rescheduled to a later date.  Those who are registered will be notified of the cancellation and rescheduling in a timely manner and will be offered either a refund or a credit toward a future training, workshop or course.  If Embark Counseling Services, LLC cancels the training, workshop or course for any other reason, you will receive a full refund, or credit toward a future event (including administrative fee).

No partial credit will be given for any training, workshop or course.  You must attend the event in its entirety to receive continued education credits.  For live webinars, you must have your camera on at all times to receive credit for attendance. 

All trainings require at least a Master’s Degree in a Counseling, Marriage and Family Therapy, Social Work or related field, and completion of EMDR Basic Training (for EMDRIA Approved Advanced Workshops).  Graduate Students may enroll in the training, and understand that continued education credit cannot be provided to individuals who do not hold proper credentials.  

No exceptions will be made to the cancellation or refund policy.

Questions or concerns, including requesting any special needs or accommodations, should be addressed to trainings@embark-counseling.com.

Grievance Policy

Embark Counseling Services, LLC is fully committed to comply with all legal and ethical standards, including non-discrimination, in all of its activities:  Marketing, content and treatment of its attendees and trainers.

We do understand that although we are intent on delivering our trainings, workshops and courses in a fair manner, conflict and complaints will arise.  In the event that this would happen, Embark Counseling Services, LLC will attempt to alleviate the issue as quickly and equitably as possible.

All grievances regarding trainers, content, delivery of material or the training facilities should be addressed by sending a confidential email to trainings@embark-counseling.com.  Our representative will attentively attempt to address concerns in a timely manner.

Embark Counseling Services, LLC is an APT Approved Provider 22-670.

Embark Counseling Services, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7305. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Embark Counseling Services, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. Embark Counseling Services, LLC, Provider #1910, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Embark Counseling Services, LLC maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 02/05/2024-02/05/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 6 clinical continuing education credits.