Addressing the Seven Core Issues with Children and Families

Clinical Applications of Sandtray Therapy in Adoption: Addressing the Seven Core Issues with Children and Families

CE Information: After attending this in person training you can recieve

3 CEs from ASWB Approved #2170

3 CES from NBCC Approved Provider #7270

3 Non Contact hours from the Associatoin For Play Therapy Approved Provider #17-526

Join us for this 3-hour in person training, facilitated by Sabra Starnes, LICSW, LCSW-C, RPT-S, M.Ed.—an adoptive parent and transracial adoptee—designed for clinicians seeking to integrate sandtray therapy into their work with adoptive children and families.

This training explores the Seven Core Issues of Adoption—loss, rejection, guilt and shame, grief, identity, intimacy, and control—and examines how these themes often emerge within the sandtray and play therapy process. Participants will engage in experiential sandtray practice and guided processing, while learning trauma-informed and attachment-focused strategies to support emotional expression, strengthen family relationships, and promote healing.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the Seven Core Issues of Adoption and their impact on adoptive children and families within the context of play therapy and family therapy sessions.
2. Discuss the therapeutic role of sandtray play therapy in addressing grief, loss, rejection, identity, guilt/shame, intimacy, and control in adoptive clients, while exploring how these issues emerge in family therapy sessions.
3. Identify common clinical challenges therapists encounter when addressing the Seven Core Issues of Adoption in sandtray play therapy sessions and family therapy sessions, and outline strategies to support both children and their families.

Sabra Starnes, LICSW, LCSW-C, LCSW,M.Ed RPT-S™, is an experienced trainer, speaker, and owner of Next Place Therapy Services, LLC, a group practice supporting children, teens, and families through play therapy and trauma-informed care. A sought-after national presenter, Sabra offers engaging, practical trainings focused on adoption, foster care, cultural humility, and clinical supervision. She creates and designs her own training courses and is an Approved Continuing Education Provider for the Association for Play Therapy (APT), National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC), and Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB). She is a Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator with advanced training in Brainspotting, EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Sandtray Therapy, Theraplay®, and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP).

Sabra is also the founder of Next Place Therapy Foundation, a nonprofit supporting adoptees, and adoptive families nationwide. Drawing from her personal and professional experiences as an adoptee and therapist, she specializes in attachment-based and expressive therapies. She holds degrees from Bennett College, Catholic University, and American University. Sabra is passionate about providing supervision and mentorship to clinicians, and leads trainings that center connection, resilience, and cultural humility.

Learn more at www.sabrastarnes.com

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