DESCRIPTION:

This workshop will introduce the basic tenets of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), an attachment-based modality that helps families repair and connect with one another and apply this model to sandtray therapy using directives with individuals, couples, and families.

Objectives:

1. Summarize the Emotionally Focused Therapy Model
2. Describe the key tenets of attachment theory.
3. Outline evidenced based criteria of EFT and sandtray therapy.
4. Identify which clients would benefit from this approach.
5. Identify how and why the EFT model is appropriate for sandtray.
6. Outline sandtray directives that employ the EFT model for individuals, couples, and families.

About Stasia:

Stasia is a licensed credentialed social worker (LCSW) and a registered play therapist-supervisor (RPT-S). She owns Create Healing Counseling Services, (createcounseling.com) a group private practice, specializing in child and adolescent counseling located in Little Rock, Arkansas. She received her B.A. degree in Psychology from Baylor University and her master’s in social work degree from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Over the last twenty years, Stasia has worked in inpatient, residential, and outpatient settings with children, adolescents, and their families. She served as an internship instructor at the juvenile detention center for first year MSW students with the UALR’s Master’s in Social Work Program. She has taught BSW and MSW courses at UALR as an adjunct faculty member in the social work program. Stasia specializes in sandtray therapy which she uses with children through adults and has provided training for therapists on advanced topics in sandtray therapy (International Credential Sandtray Therapist, ICST).  She provides supervision for therapists seeking credentialing in play therapy as an RPT-S and serves on the Arkansas Board of Play Therapy. Stasia is a doctoral candidate at the University of Louisiana Monroe in the Marriage and Family Systemic Studies program.

In her spare time, Stasia enjoys travel and time with her son and husband. Her son is a junior at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville pursuing a degree in Computer Science. Her hobbies include health and wellness, especially cooking, exercise, and meditation. Her creative pursuits include interior design, fashion, art and all things colorful.