Sandplay Therapy
"Until you make the unconscious conscious it will direct your life and you will call it fate" Carl Jung
Welcome to The Sandplay Studio at Manyana! Enjoy a 'hands on', expressive therapy that empowers you to explore your inner world while healing and growing in a safe, nonjudgemental, empathetic environment.
Discover your natural wisdom
Discover your natural wisdom
Discover your natural wisdom
Sandplay Therapy invites you to explore your inner feelings, thoughts and concerns by placing miniatures in dry or wet sand inside a wooden tray. I will accompany you with acceptance and compassion as you discover and grow your natural insights, strengths and resources.
Something for everyone
Discover your natural wisdom
Discover your natural wisdom
People of all ages, experiences and cultures can benefit from Sandplay Therapy. No experience, abilities or skills are necessary - simply bring your curiosity and allow your 'instinctive Self' to lead the way while you work with sand, water and miniatures (symbols). Play is vital for our health, vitality and wellbeing - and it's OK if you feel a bit silly at first!
Person centred approach
Discover your natural wisdom
"What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
As a trauma-informed, person centred neuropsychotherapist, I draw on the latest neuroscientific research to provide a safe, empathetic, healing space that supports you to explore your hopes, concerns and achievements; gain new perspectives; heal from past hurts; and make new meanings.
"What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
"What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
"What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
Sandplay Therapy can help you make life-changing decisions, get new perspectives and grow resilience.
Heal and build resilience while working with challenging life experiences including loss and grief, loneliness, dementia, unresolved childhood adversity, fear and uncertainty, addiction recovery, chronic pain, relationship challenges...
Sandtray Therapy for couples, siblings & families
"What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
Sandtray Therapy for couples, siblings & families
Play and grow together! Guided therapeutic work in the sand tray can help you build and strengthen your relationships by sharing experiences and concerns safely to develop new perspectives and deeper understanding. Your work together may draw on narrative therapy, cultural counselling and family systems approaches and may be combined with individual counselling or resilience coaching.
Trauma-informed, directive Sandtray Therapy
"What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
Sandtray Therapy for couples, siblings & families
In conjunction with talking therapy and psychoeducation, trauma-informed directed Sandtray Therapy can help you heal unresolved emotional trauma; tap into your natural strengths and resilience; and develop a sense of meaning and purpose. My approach is informed by extensive experience of trauma counselling and guided by the key trauma-informed practice principles of safety, trustworthiness, collaboration, choice and empowerment.
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” Carl Jung
Sandplay Therapy can be used to help with decision-making and to support personal growth and development. As a non-verbal therapy, Sandplay Therapy is valuable for people with dementia, adult survivors of childhood trauma, migration and belonging issues, complicated bereavement and a range of relationship issues including divorce.
Combining neuropsychotherapy, person centred therapy and trauma-informed therapy, this therapeutic modality offers a way to harness your neuroplasticity and make meaningful changes in your life.
Sandplay Therapy may be used alongside talking therapy (counselling) and resilience coaching.
Sandplay Therapy supports you safely and naturally to connect with, and understand, those memories that affect your life and relationships but are deeply held outside your conscious awareness (implicit memory).
Did you know? Sandplay Therapy is an established psychotherapeutic approach and was developed by Jungian psychotherapist Dora Kalff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWd40dMH70c (1972)
If you're low in self-esteem, feeling cranky, unmotivated or frustrated, you can use Sandplay Therapy to 'vent' without judgment and explore new ways without pressure or expectations...
Sandplay Therapy can be particularly helpful for people who are experiencing loss and grief issues around transitions and milestones, relationships, ill-health and unemployment.
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