Sandtray Play Therapy with Anxious Children and Teens: Regulation and Exploration
In this training, you’ll learn how to meet anxious children and teens right where they are using the powerful, creative language of sandtray play therapy. You’ll build a solid clinical foundation for understanding anxiety diagnoses, learn how to choose tools and directives intentionally, and leave with practical, trauma-informed interventions that help clients regulate, explore, and heal through play.
Whether you’re new to sandtray or looking to sharpen your skills, this training will help you turn anxiety into an invitation for deeper insight, connection, and growth.
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Objective 1:
List and describe common anxiety diagnoses we see among children and teens.
Before we can support anxious clients in the tray, we need to understand what we're actually working with. In this training, we’ll...
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Objective 2:
Demonstrate understanding of the basics of sandtray play therapy.
Let’s get grounded before we get creative.
After this lesson you should be able to walk through the foundational principles of sandtray...
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Objective 3:
Identify the three types of sandtray play therapy tools that can be used with clients who are anxious.
Anxiety can take many forms—and so can the miniatures we use to support it.
In this lesson, you learned about three core categories of...
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List and explain the 5 categories of directives in sandtray play therapy that can be used with anxiety.
Learning Objective 4:
List and explain the 5 categories of directives in sandtray play therapy that can be used with anxiety.
When anxiety shows up in the playroom, structure can be your best friend.
We learned five directive styles that support anxious clients...
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Create 3–5 of your own directives for sandtray play therapy based off the diagnosis, types, and categories.
Objective 5:
Create 3–5 of your own directives for sandtray play therapy based off the diagnosis, types, and categories.
Time to cast your own spell—this lesson helps you move from theory to creativity.
Using what you’ve learned about anxiety diagnoses,...
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Evaluation & Posttest
SANDTRAY PLAY THERAPY WITH ANXIOUS CHILDREN AND TEENS: REGULATION AND EXPLORATION
Evaluation & Posttest
You must watch the entire video in objective 1 in order to complete this posttest.
**A score of 80 or higher is required to receive your...