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  • Sand Tray Therapy, An Overview

    Sand Tray Therapy, An Overview

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    Sand Tray Therapy : A Powerful Play Therapy Technique for Kids Sand tray therapy is one of the most powerful play therapy techniques for children.  For the play therapist, it is comparable to an X-ray or MRI because it provides the unconscious symbols and their relationship.  This gives the therapist the information needed to guide the therapy,…

  • The Art Therapist

    The Art Therapist

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    The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.  – Aristotle Art has an essential place in psychotherapy.  It provides expression for places within the self that are not yet known.  If these places remain unconscious, they appear as struggle or staled maturity.  A poem or story…