Introduction

Sandtray therapy is an expressive and projective therapy that has the unique and extraordinary quality of being considerably flexible and adaptive. Sandtray therapy is used with clients across the developmental lifespan. Sandtray therapy should always involve a dynamic interpersonal relationship. The content of sandtray therapy provides a metaphorical blueprint of family alliances, personality stages, and intergenerational patterns. Sandtray therapy as an expressive and projective mode of psychotherapy involving the unfolding and processing of intraand inter-personal issues through the use of specific sandtray materials as a nonverbal medium of communication, led by the client or therapist and facilitated by a trained therapist. Matching the therapeutic medium with the client serves to establish the therapeutic relationship. Therapist preference or other client differences may lead the counselor to use sandtray therapy. The book explores the role of sandtray therapy as a core process and relational tool.