Advanced Topics: Chronic Shame and Relational Trauma in the Sand Tray

About This Event

This training supports clinicians in recognizing, assessing, and treating chronic complex shame as a core organizing experience, not a secondary concern, utilizing Sand Tray Therapy.

Our Advanced Topics training is designed to enhance existing Sand Tray skills, deepen therapeutic efficacy, and expand practitioners’ capacity to apply Sand Tray (ST) therapy across diverse clinical contexts. Each ST seminar will focus on a specific theme, offering in-depth exploration with practical, clinically grounded strategies.

 

• Explore shame through attachment and neurodevelopmental frameworks.
• Examine preverbal somatic origins and childhood relational experiences, including how shame is framed, maintained, and expressed across the lifespan. 
• Assessment focusing on polyvagal, somatic, and biopsychosocial presentations of shame.
• Treatment planning with practical strategies for working with both adult and child presentations, including parental involvement. 
• Sandtray integration includes targeted activities, demonstrations, and experiential triad practice to support clinical application.

Paid Parking on site.

Please bring: snacks, lunch and a water

Provided: tools to participate, completion certificate, experiential learning

Trainers:

Patricia Felzien MACP, C.C.C., R.C.C.

As a registered clinical counsellor, I specialize in working with children, youth, and their caregivers, focusing on trauma through somatic and experiential therapies, including Neuro-Science Satir Sand Tray Therapy (NSST) and more. I have facilitated numerous educational and therapeutic groups over the past 15 years. I discovered Sand Tray Therapy in 2017, became certified in NSST in 2022, and also have a Level 1 NSST Trainer certification. Additionally, I actively participate in NSST “fishbowl discussions” and international trainings. For more information visit thrivewellbc.com/meet-the-team

Beth Scholes MACP, R.C.C.

As a family systems therapist, I specialize in developmental relational trauma, including anxiety and complex chronic shame. In my private practice, I work with families, children, and individual adults. I’ve been using Sand Tray Therapy since 2017 with clients for trauma intervention, play therapy, families, and so much more. I am excited to share this powerful tool! I bring to this training both Jungian and NSST approaches. Additionally, I am certified in adult education, which I deeply love, with 20+ year of experience. For more information visit bethscholes.com