The Sandplay Series: Five Core Trainings 
Live, Experiential Sandplay Training Webinars
Registration URL: https://www.sandplaytrainingworldwide.com/sandplay-training-courses
The Sandplay Series—Live, Experiential, Interactive Core Trainings: Includes five core courses (78 hours), providing a very rich and deep beginning through advanced training for the sandplay therapist. This Sandplay Series runs January 17 – October 18, 2025, and includes the following trainings. You may also sign up for any of these trainings individually. Individual course descriptions may be found here: https://www.sandplaytrainingworldwide.com/sandplay-training-courses
- Symbols and Symbolic Process in Sandplay (18 hours) January 17-19, 2025, $575
- Jungian Theory in Sandplay (18 hours) February 21-23, 2025, $575
- Introduction to Sandplay Therapy (18 hours) March 21-23, 2025, $575
- Healing Complex Trauma in Sandplay (18 hours) August 22-24, 2025, $575
- Ethics in Sandplay: The Archetype of Integrity (6 hours) October 18, 2025, $195
Course meets the qualifications for 78 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
Linda Cunningham is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs. Linda Cunningham maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Provider # 017288
Linda Cunningham, Ph.D., MFT, CST-T is a Certified Teaching Member of Sandplay Therapists of America and International Society for Sandplay Therapy. She is the author of Sandplay and The Clinical Relationship (2013) as well as Relational Sandplay Therapy (2005) and a chapter, “Attuning to the Flow of Relational Energies in Sandplay: Healing Complex Trauma in Adults” in The Routledge International Handbook of Sandplay Therapy (2017). Over the past twenty-five years, Dr. Cunningham has written many articles for the Journal of Sandplay Therapy on the topic of the therapeutic relationship in sandplay. Dr. Cunningham created Sandplay Training Worldwide in 2013, offering sandplay trainings for professional therapists and trainees. Since then, she has introduced sandplay and depth psychotherapy to hundreds of therapists and counselors. Dr. Cunningham has taught sandplay as well as contemporary relational theories for many years in both graduate and postgraduate settings and was adjunct faculty in the Sonoma State University M.A. Depth Psychology Program and at the California Institute of Integral Studies. In addition to the Sandplay Training Worldwide offerings, Dr. Cunningham has provided special trainings for sandplay therapists in United States, Ukraine, Taiwan, Chile, South Africa, China, and Russia, and has introduced sandplay to residents in psychiatry at Walter Reed Medical Center. Dr. Cunningham is a frequent presenter at sandplay conferences. She practices in Gig Harbor, Washington, specializing in anxiety, preverbal trauma and blocked creativity.