Reasons Sand Tray Therapy is highly effective for all ages (even adults)

Sand Tray therapy is has its roots in Jungian philosophy, and seeks to work with universal feelings, questions, and archetypes.  While we all know that play therapy is for kids, I am of the belief that it is a highly effective healing modality for adults, adolescents, and even couples.  Here are the top reasons why Sand Tray Therapy is for everyone:

1. Have you ever found your experience hard to put into words?  It happens to the best of us, and sometimes words just can't convey an emotion, thought, or past experience sufficiently.  How do you start to work through something in therapy without words?  You can use other expressive and creative communication methods.  What better to do this than using a sand tray and objects to create a visual metaphor in order to communicate your internal experience.  
2. People learn differently, and not everyone thinks or learns logically.  For some, talk therapy provides insight into patterns, habits, behavior, experiences, and feelings.  Other people find that they can tell the same story over and over again, and never find a suitable conclusion.  Sand Tray therapy, along with other experiential, artistic, and play modalities allows people to gain insight, mastery, and resolution through an intuitive and embodied therapeutic approach.
3. There is no experience necessary.  All you need is your instinct and a few key instructions from the therapist.  Unlike art therapy, music therapy, or movement-based therapy, very few of us have any judgement about our ability to be "good" at creating worlds in a sand box.  As a result, I find that people doing sand tray therapy are less inhibited, less judgmental of their own creations, and more able to access their own creative and intuitive healing potential.  
4. You can let your thinking brain rest for a while.  I, like many people, am very fond of logical reasoning.  However, it is usually virtually impossible to change, grow, and heal purely through logic alone.  At some point it becomes necessary to involve emotions, feelings, somatic experiences, intuition, spiritual beliefs, and other components of the human experience.  The visual and metaphorical expression allowed by Sand Tray therapy enables clients, even those who rely upon logic and reason, to reach greater depths of insight.  Particularly when paired with insight-oriented talk therapy.  
5. Sand Tray Therapy can provide immense emotional relief, and you don't even have to know what or how this is going to happen.  People who do sand tray therapy often experience lasting emotional shifts through the creation and development of a sand world under the presence of a therapist who is holding space.  These shifts can feel like relief, bringing unresolved emotion or even thoughts to a point of resolution and integration.  

Sand Tray therapy is very effective when used in conjunction with psychodynamic talk therapy and other modalities.  If this type of psychotherapy interests you, I encourage you to give it a try!  (It's great for kids, adolescents, and adults alike!)