Sandplay is a powerful method for accessing the unconscious in a way that brings about profound change. It is a safe, gentle, effective evidence-based method that accelerates and deepens healing for many issues, including anxiety, depression, grief, death and dying, trauma and personal growth. 

Research results for sandplay are similar, or in some cases startlingly better than, other modalities of psychotherapy, as good as or better than for CBT (Freedle, 2022).

Studies have covered the use of sandplay therapy in many different life conditions: sexual abuse, substance abuse, addiction to smart phones, children of divorce, visual and other disabilities. Studies address a wide range of diagnoses: anxiety, PTSD, OCD, depression, ADHD, behavior problems, grief, aggression and low self-esteem, poverty and dysfunction. Neuroimaging studies show the positive effects of sandplay therapy on cortical and subcortical brain functioning. Approximately half of this research was with group sandplay in various forms. Improvement can be seen in 10 sessions (Freedle, Journal of Sandplay Therapy 2022).

Sandplay therapy is based on the work of Dora Kalff and C. G. Jung. Inherent in sandplay is the idea that the psyche, given the right conditions, is self-healing.