Utilizing Sandtray Within the Discrimination Model of Counselor Supervision

LGBTQ* Responsive Sand Tray: Creative Arts and Counseling

“…Stark and Frels (2014) suggested that ST also offers opportunities as a collaborative assessment for counselor development, especially with counselors-in-training. As an expressive arts supervision activity, ST provides a shared symbolic language for supervisee and supervisor, and can assist in exploring case conceptualization and counseling dynamics (Chang et al, 2005;Stark, Garza, Bruhn, & Ane, 2015), as well as increasing supervisee self-awareness and expression (Carnes-Holt, Meany-Walen, & Felton, 2014;Garrett, 2015a;McCurdy & Owen, 2008).…”

“…Supervisees have described their experiences with ST in supervision as positive (Markos, Coker, & Jones, 2008;McCurdy & Owen, 2008) and for these reasons , Goodrich and Luke identified the particular utility of expressive, experiential, and creative approaches in supervision of counselors working with LGBTQ* clients. Because ST can be utilized within a variety of theoretical approaches, such as Person Centered, Jungian, Adlerian, Gestalt, Developmental, and Psychodynamic (Isom et al, 2015;McCurdy & Owen, 2008;Perryman et al, 2016), supervisors have a range of ways in which they can incorporate ST into extant supervision models (Anekstein et al, 2014;Carnes-Holt et al, 2014;Stark, Frels, & Garza, 2011). For example, Garrett (2015b) described use of journaling as an extension of the ST experience in supervision, while others incorporate photography, painting and drawing, or titling, as well as various forms of narrative and reflective practices (Luke, 2008;Mullen et al, 2007).…”

“…As a result, multiple approaches have been developed and utilized as a means of supporting counselors' multicultural and social justice development within supervision (Bernard & Goodyear, 2013;Bernard & Luke, 2015). One such area includes creative arts and more specifically, ST (Anekstein et al, 2014;Bernard & Goodyear, 2013;Carnes-Holt et al, 2014;Stark et al, 2011).…”

“…As mentioned above, creative arts have been used to promote a wide variety of professional skills, behaviors, and abilities, such as expressive and reflective processes (Gladding, 2010), increased self-other awareness (Bratton, Ceballos, & Sheely, 2008), and increased access to intuition, empathy, and emotion (Carnes-Holt et al, 2014). In supervision, Stark et al (2014) suggested that as a specific creative arts intervention, ST could uniquely assist supervisees to conceptualize, establish counseling and supervisory goals, and enhance the counseling and supervisory relationships.…”

“…Creative arts interventions in general, and ST in particular, have been lauded as offering supervisors a complementary right-brain and kinesthetic means (Stark & Frels, 2014) to creatively and experientially work with supervisees to match their developmental needs (Mullen et al, 2007). As a creative and experiential intervention, ST offers supervisors opportunities to select learning activities that differentially respond to varied developmental needs of the supervisee (Anekstein et al, 2014;Carnes-Holt et al, 2014;Paone et al, 2015) working with clients across the LGBTQ* communities .…”