Exciting New Workshop for EMDR Trained Clinicians!

Saturday Dec 6, 2025 9-1 pm

When Words Fail Us: The Use of Sand Tray in EMDR to Help Adults Process Embodied Memories

The new workshop, held in a comfortable conference room, dedicated sand tray room and therapy office space in Stamford, CT, will provide EMDR clinicians practical tools to help clients identify, access and process implicit memories through creative, right-brain interventions, techniques using right brain approaches, especially sand tray therapy, and the tools to understand and teach clients to better identify implicit memories

EMDR CEUs: 4 contact hours from EMDRIA

Training highlights:

  • Review of left/right brain hemisphere research, especially through frame of Interpersonal Neurobiology

  • Identify the clear differences between explicit and implicit memories, and how implicit memories show up as our symptoms, traumatic responses, and even as unconscious responses and attachment dynamics.

  • Structured EMDR/Sand tray intervention for Phases 3–8 and case presentations

  • Live demonstration and experience of sand tray in a specialized sand tray room!

  • Registration: Contact Siobhan Masterson at 845.608.7477 or email Siobhan@playishealing.com to register today!

  • Spots now limited! Early bird is 99$ before 10/28! $119 until 12/6/2025

  • Payable by Venmo, Check, Zelle or PayPal

“Siobhan is fabulous. She is kind, compassionate, wise and experienced. Siobhan has helped me to move forward in my life, especially through some difficult transitions, with new skills and support. She is a knowledgeable and experienced EMDR practitioner and utilizes other resources as well to meet each individual where they are. Siobhan has adapted to the "new normal" of providing counseling, including EMDR, through a secure telehealth app that is extremely easy to use. I highly recommend Siobhan! TY”

Ms. Masterson is perceptive, insightful, and committed to helping her clients grow and supporting their loved ones to that end. We had taken our adolescent daughter to a psychiatrist and two different therapy practices over the course of two years, and our daughter was not properly diagnosed or treated during that time. Ms. Masterson was the first person to really "see" our daughter. She identified the core issues and has used strategies that have been highly effective within a short time. In addition, Ms. Masterson helped us advocate for a targeted 504 plan with the school district. Working with Ms. Masterson has been transformative for our daughter and we wholeheartedly recommend her practice. AP

My sessions with Siobhan have been life changing. She is caring, empathetic, intelligent, patient, skilled in her profession and very kind. I feel so lucky to have found her and I would recommend her to anyone in search of therapy. -SM

Doing EMDR therapy with Siobhan was unequivocally one of the best decisions I've ever been fortunate enough to make. I was prescribed EMDR to recover from symptoms of Functional Neurologic Disorder after a car accident and not only did those symptoms resolve, I was able to get over my oldest hang ups. I'm so glad I didn't have to go the rest of my life without being able to experience the transformation of EMDR. -MF

“Nobody wants to do it - not real change, not soul change, not the painful molecular change required to truly become who you need to be. Nobody ever does real transformation for fun. Nobody ever does it on a dare. You do it only when your back is so far against the wall that you have no choice anymore. ”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Author