Where Sand Tray Meets Neuroscience Meets DvT
Sand Brain Portal is a continually changing custom platform developed during the pandemic to facilitate the combination of drama therapy, in the form of Developmental Transformations (DvT), and elements of sand tray therapy in a virtual setting. In spirit with DvT’s appreciation for the continuous changing nature of life, The Sand Brain Portal, is an ever evolving site that serves several purposes, such as blog, portals for mini collections, archives for the history of The Sand Brain Portal, and more. All with the overall goal of infecting the world with DvT (read play) and infiltrate talk therapy from the bottom up. To learn more about DvT, sand tray, and the neuroscience behind it all, feel free to poke around or meet River and Roxann below.
Who is your DvTists?
River Dowdy, BA, MS, NCC, Pending-PLPC, DvT1-Advanced
In collaboration with Emovere, LLC.
Roxann Wombacher, BFA, Master of Clinical Counseling Student @ Central Methodist University, DvT1
In collaboration with College Bound.
The Journey
As words like social-distancing, quarantine, and isolation populate our auto-correct, doors close, masks cover faces, hand-sanitizer, and toilet paper move to the black market life can feel unstable. Just like our clients, embodied therapists everywhere experienced the rug pullout out from under us, and the dark cloud of collective grief and confusion roll in.
Thankfully, it got a lot better, in some ways. With the darkness of the pandemic came the dawn of a new wave of accessibility.
Read about the unfolding journey of the SandBrainPortal.
The Neuroscience
You may have heard of the terms, top-down and bottom-up when it comes to types of therapy. But, what does that mean, and how does it apply to you?