Professional Diploma in Sandtray Therapy and Symbolic Expression

This exciting,one-year, Diploma course will bring you deep into the world of projective play and the use of symbols as therapeutic agents with psychotherapy and counselling clients. You will engage in experiential sessions utilising sandtray therapy, spectrograms, and the use of symbols. The training is relevant for therapists working with adults, adolescents, and/or children. Making use of right-brain processes and accessing implicit memories will deepen the therapy process and facilitate healing from unresolved issues that have their roots at any life stage. Accessing a direct route to the unconscious bypasses defences and maintains a felt sense of safety by providing dramatic distance from disturbing thoughts and feelings. This allows the social engagement system to stay active, and protects the client from being triggered into a hyper- or hypo-aroused state. Creative expression, with a therapist who communicates strong safety cues, allows the player to experience a neuroception of safety even when processing difficult experiences.

This is a blended learning course which makes the best use of the onsite training days for experiential learning, while facilitating your work/life balance by providing for a mixture of live online sessions, directed study tasks, and self-directed learning (including access to interactive learning opportunities for you to engage with at times to suit your own schedule. The experiential nature of this course will support you own personal and professional development, and you will acquire knowledge, skills, and competence that will enhance your clinical practice.

Suitable for:This training is suitable for trainee and qualified psychotherapists, counsellors, play therapists, expressive arts therapists, and psychologists, working within the range of psychotherapeutic modalities

Course Schedule

Both Zoom Introductory and Orientation sessions take place from 7 – 8.30pm. Full day sessions take place from 10am – 5pm. There will be morning and afternoon tea/coffee breaks and a one hour lunch break.

Dates:

11^th December 2024 (Zoom)

28^th January 2025 (Zoom)

27^th & 28^th February 2025 (F-F)

29^th & 30^th March 2025 (F-F)

10^th April 2025 (Online)

8^th & 9^th May 2025 (F-F)

7^th & 8^th June 2025 (F-F)

5^th July 2025 (Online)

28^th August2025 (F-F)

Self-directed learning and directed study tasks to suit individual learners.

All Face-to-Face sessions are held in CTC, Slievenagorta, Ballymore, Co Westmeath, N91 CC65

IACP CPD approved for 84 CPD Points

Course Fee: €1700

This includes a starter sandtray kit (miniature tray, sand, 50+ symbols) and the course book: Homeyer, L. E. & Sweeney, D. S. (2022) Sandtray Therapy: A Practical Manual, 4^th Ed. London & NY: Routledge

Course Leader

Emer Mc Donagh, SIAPTP, MIAPTP, MIAHIP, ECIP, is the leader for this course. She holds an MA in Humanistic & Integrative Psychotherapy and Play Therapy and a BA (HONS) in Applied Social Studies in Social Care. Emer is also Assistant MA Course Leader at CTC and is a fully accredited psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer with the European Association of Integrative Psychotherapy

Details and application form to download HERE

Further enquiries: email: ctcemer@gmail.com