Drawing & Talking and Sand Tray Therapy

I have trained as an Advanced Drawing and Talking Therapy Practitioner.  I can offer two different therapeutic interventions – Drawing & Talking or Sand Tray therapy.

These are gentle, non-intrusive therapeutic ways of working with people who need a little help to support their wellbeing.

Drawing & Talking is suitable for use with children from 5 years old but can also be a valuable intervention for adolescents, young people and all adults.  Sand Tray therapy works in a similar way but can also be suitable for children from 4 years old.

Drawing & Talking and Sand Tray therapy are designed as therapeutic early interventions that complement the work of CAMHS or other specialist therapies and are ideal for those children already on long waiting lists for other services. They are person-centred therapies and work in a similar way to play therapy.

Drawing & Talking and Sand Tray therapies are safe and non-invasive.

They are short term, time limited therapies and each type consists of 12 sessions of half an hour per week. Ideally these should be at the same time and in the same safe place weekly.

No artistic talent is necessary! The drawings/sand tray stories, and the story-telling way we talk about them, allow emotional difficulties and trauma to be processed in a symbolic way.