The Embodied Brain and Sandtray Therapy

Rita Grayson created the body-brain approach to sandtray therapy by combining her deep understanding and experience of sandtray with emerging knowledge in the field of relational neuroscience. Theresa Fraser is the owner/director of the Maritime Play Therapy Centre in Nova Scotia, Canada. She provides neurobiologically informed play therapy training internationally.

Section 1: Introduction 1. Playing the Sandbox: The Birth of a Healing Tool 2. Drawn to the Sand: Becoming a Sandtray Therapist 3. Healing the Embodied Brain: The Neurobiology of Sandtray Therapy 4. It is Never Too Late: Healing Trauma Across the Lifespan with Sandtray Therapy Section 2: Stories of Healing in the Sandtray 5. Troubled Waters: Navigating Difficult Life Transitions 6. Lost and Found: Reuniting with Self, Tales of the Wandering Psyche 7.Through the Eyes of a Child: Sandtray Therapy with Children 8. Who Am I?: The Journey of Self-Discovery 9. Being with What Is: Touching Grief in the Sand 10. Rediscovering Balance: Combining Sandtray Therapy and EMDR 11.Working Across Cultures: Finding Common Ground in the Sand 12. Finding Safety: Healing Attachment Wounds in the Sandtray Therapy Process 13. Sandtray with a Mind of its Own: Developing Trust in the Wisdom of the Process Section 3: Tying it all Together 14. The Heart of the Matter: Common Experiences of the Sandtray Therapist 15. Honoring the Legacy: Keeping Margaret Lowenfeld’s Vision Alive in the Future