What is Sandplay Therapy?

Some life experiences defy verbal expression. Sand Play therapy is a non-verbal technique for children & adults.
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Jeanette Dreyer

At Eureka Centre we have a very experienced and gifted Sandplay Therapist, Jeanette Dreyer, who achieves excellent results, and we have many satisfied clients.

Sandplay is an effective therapy for overcoming emotional problems without the need for verbal communication. However, we cannot guarantee the results in any case. Your results may vary and every situation is different.

M.Ed. (Psyc) Pretoria, B.Ed. (Psyc) Pretoria, B.A. (Unisa), D.S.O.R.O. (Unisa), H.P.O.D. (Wellington), Medical Hypno-Analysis (S.A.S.C.H.), E.M.D.R. (Education Unlimited), Certified Imago Therapist, (Imago Relationships International), Sandplay Therapist (Martin Kalf), BrainWorking Recursive Therapy® (Essex Institute)

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What is Sandplay Therapy?

Some life experiences defy verbal expression. Sand Play therapy is a non-verbal technique for children & adults.

Eureka Centre offers a specialised form of play therapy called Sand Play Therapy.

Sandplay Therapy creates a bridge between the conscious and the sub-conscious making it possible to access and come to terms with disturbing life experiences which often defy verbal expression.

Sandplay Therapy is a specialised form of play therapy and is essentially a non-verbal technique. By bringing the conscious and unconscious together in Sandplay Therapy, significant changes in the conscious attitude toward the subconscious can take place, allowing inner order to grows out of inner emotional chaos.

How does Sandplay therapy work?

A detailed history of the client’s background and problem is obtained and goals set for therapy.

A sand tray of 48.75cm x 71.25cm with a blue base and sides, filled with a sand collection of miniatures and water, are used with the instruction “Do what you want in the sand”.

The therapy starts at the moment the client is able to surrender to play.

The client expresses emotions through their play. As the client works in the sand tray, the therapist sits nearby making notes of what figures the client uses and what the client says or does, if anything, and takes photographs when the sand tray is completed.

A series of sand trays which is done over a couple of weeks or months is referred to as a process. No analysis is made to the client until after the process is completed. The therapist’s more conscious awareness of the symbolic process, which is largely unconscious to the client, acts as a stabilizing factor. The capacity of the therapist to safely “hold” the client’s emerging subconscious content is very important.

“Sandplay creates a bridge between the conscious and subconscious”

During the process the conscious mind relaxes its control, allowing penetration to the subconscious material. The unconscious finds expression in the selection of figures and the shaping of the sandplay.

Sandplay supports the client’s ability to address emotional problems resulting from any number of psychic injuries. In the course of sandplay inner order gradually grows out of inner emotional chaos evidenced early in the work. Sandplay pictures that first express emptiness and loneliness begin to show new life and growth.

Great despair, carefully hidden behind a façade, can be expressed, and through silent nurture, its destructiveness can be dissolved through Sandplay Therapy.

Many of these aspects are beyond the limits or ordinary language and cannot be expressed verbally.

Sandplay offers an alternative means of psychic expression.

By bringing the conscious and unconscious together in sandplay, significant changes in the conscious attitude toward the subconscious take place.

Sandplay Therapy can bring clarity to what might otherwise cause unchecked subconscious eruptions such as anger outbursts, and it fosters the discovery of previously unknown courage and strengths.

Please be advised:

At Eureka, we have many satisfied clients. However, we cannot guarantee the results in any case. Your results may vary & every situation is different.

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Testimonials found on this site are examples of what we have done for other clients, and what some of our clients have said about us.

However, no practice, including ours, can ever guarantee results. Results may vary and every situation is different.

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Testimonials

We at Eureka Centre have many satisfied clients. Below are some of their inspiring stories:

Sandplay Therapy

My daughter, 14 years old, was very rebellious after my divorce. She refused to accept her stepmother. She withdrew from the family, refusing to talk to anyone. I took her for sandplay at Eureka Centre.

She was able to work through her emotions without having to talk about it. I am very satisfied with the outcome.

– Eureka Centre Client

Anger Management

Our 25 year old daughter had been having anger outbursts for the past three years. It was progressively getting worse. She was verbally abusing me and my wife, and attacking us physically.

We tried everything – various forms of conventional psychology and psychiatric treatment, without any success. We were desperate. Hypnotherapy at Eureka Centre changed our lives.

After a few hypnotherapy sessions she became calm and loving, as she has always been before. It is like a miracle. Hypnotherapy works!

– Eureka Centre Client

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