NCRSS Training – THE RELATIONAL FIELD OF SANDPLAY THERAPY – Transference, Countertransference and Co-Transference

Linda Cunningham, Ph.D, LMFT, CST-T
6 CE Credits

Understanding the concepts of transference further deepens the therapist’s self-awareness of somatic, emotional, relational, symbolic and spiritual connections with the client. Theoretical material will help sandplay practitioners to better understand transference, countertransference and how they relate to co-transference and the relational field. Special attention will be given to how the experience of co-transference may manifest in our bodies or feeling states, and we will apply this knowledge to our work with clients. In-depth analysis of sand trays and processes will demonstrate how sandplay enables clients to symbolize and express their deepest emotions related to preverbal trauma. We will discuss the impact of the co-transference upon the therapist and client as it affects healing and transformation.

Learning Objectives: this workshop is designed to help you:

1. Describe the differences between transference, countertransference and co-transference.
2. Identify ways to recognize to recognize preverbal trauma through difficult countertransference experiences. 3. 3. Describe how placement of objects in the tray can reveal both negative and positive transference.
3. Assess the use of objects in the tray to identify dissociation.
4. Discuss the relational field model of relational issues in sandplay.
5. Describe the preverbal, traumatic roots of insecure attachment.

Linda Cunningham, Ph.D, LMFT, CST-T, is a teaching member of STA/ ISST and the author of Sandplay and the Clinical Relationship (2013). She has written many articles for the Journal of Sandplay Therapy on the topic of the therapeutic relationship in sandplay, and has presented at both national and international conferences. Linda has taught sandplay as well as contemporary relational theory in graduate and postgraduate settings and currently gives trainings in Depth Psychotherapy and Sandplay in San Francisco. She was core faculty in Sonoma State University’s Depth Psychology Graduate Program and adjunct faculty at California Institute of Integral Studies. She is in private practice in San Francisco and Marin.

Fees:

• Professional: NCRSS member $165 Non- member: $190
• Unlicensed Interns/students: NCRSS members $140 Non-member $160
• Continuing Education: additional $25 per course

REGISTER AT www.californiasandplay.org

Continuing Education credits: CPA Accredited: NCRSS is approved by the California Psychological Association (# NOR021) to provide continuing professional education for psychologists. The California Board of Behavioral Sciences recognizes CPA for continuing education credit for LCSW’s, LMFT’s and LPCC’s. NCRSS is responsible for maintaining this program and its contents. A maximum of 6 CE credits may be earned, based on class attendance. Each individual course is 6 hours of instruction eligible for CE credits. One credit equal 60 minutes of instruction Play Therapy CEs: Provider #13-343 Four courses have been submitted for approval for six hours APT credits.