Build, design, and play with endless possibilities without the cleanup.
Sandplay therapy is a fantastic way to help clients express what they can’t put into words. Traditionally, it involves using a sandbox and tiny figures to build scenes that reflect a person’s inner world. These scenes become a powerful way to explore emotions, uncover struggles, and tap into thoughts that are tough to talk about.Now, with PlaySpace Sand Tray Play, you can bring this experience to life—whether face-to-face or online.
Dive into the world of Sandplay therapy without needing a physical box of sand. Get all the benefits of traditional Sandplay, with the bonus of being super flexible.
Use sand play from wherever you are. Available digitally, location is never a limitation, making it easy to include into your practice.
Explore a wide range of digital miniatures, backgrounds, and textures to create unique, meaningful scenes.
Your clients’ privacy is our priority. Every session is encrypted and stored securely, so you can focus your clients.
You can join your client or have them play on their own, making the experience more interactive.
Ready to take your sandplay therapy to the next level? With PlaySpace, your clients can explore, express, and heal—wherever they are, whenever they need it.
Ready to take your sandplay therapy to the next level? With PlaySpace, your clients can explore, express, and heal—wherever they are, whenever they need it
Dive into a wide range of diverse and relatable figures—from people and professions to holidays and faith symbols. There’s something for every story your clients want to tell.
Want to set the scene? Switch it up with backgrounds like a beach, jungle, space, lava, or winter wonderland.
Dig, fill, bury—everything you’d do with a real sandbox, you can do here. Plus, zoom in and out to capture every detail or get the big picture.
Say hello to limitless creativity in therapy sessions! With Imagine 3D, you can generate custom objects in the Sand Tray by simply uploading an image or entering a text prompt. Make sessions more personal, engaging, and meaningful for every client.
Dive into space or walk on lava. Now your stories can go anywhere. More choices. More fun.
Celebrate culture and diversity while fostering meaningful conversations with our new library of holiday and cultural figures.
PlaySpace’s Sand Tray is a browser-based, drag-and-drop canvas that lets clients arrange 3D “miniatures” in real time while the therapist observes, guides, and snapshots the scene, just like a physical tray, but screen-shared seamlessly inside a secure video session.
Invite the client to your PlaySpace room, start the tray, and let them choose figures that express their story. Younger kids enjoy the playful exploration; teens often use the scene metaphorically to externalize feelings. Co-viewing keeps engagement high while you reflect and process together.
Explain that the activity mirrors the expressive power of a physical tray but in a safe online space, allowing children to symbolically act out thoughts and emotions. Emphasize confidentiality, optional parent reviews of saved images, and the research supporting sand-based expressive therapies.
It is effective with children and adolescents, and can be adapted for adults who prefer non-verbal or metaphor-focused work.
PlaySpace is HIPAA, PIPEDA, GDPR and SOC-2 Type II compliant, so sessions and client data are protected to the highest standards in healthcare. → See how we protect your data
Over 500 stylized 3D miniatures across people, animals, fantasy figures, nature items, buildings, vehicles, cultural and emotion symbols, with seasonal packs. Therapists can favorite or hide sets to match client needs. You can also generate your own personalized 3D objects using AI (available in beta), adding a new layer of creativity and self-expression.
Everything feels familiar (tray border, background “sand,” figurines), yet it’s mess-free, instantly resettable, and recordable. Clients can zoom, rotate, duplicate items and even dig, fill, bury, and paint within the tray. They can also generate their own personalized 3D objects using AI (available in beta), adding a new layer of creativity and self-expression.
Use classic sand-tray prompts (“What is happening here?” “Where would you place yourself?”) while screen-sharing. Highlight or move figures to focus the discussion, then capture a screenshot for the progress note or homework reflection.
A growing body of studies shows that virtual adaptations preserve the therapeutic benefits of traditional sand tray work, symbolic expression, narrative building, emotion regulation while adding convenience and accessibility for telehealth.
A laptop or tablet with a modern browser and stable internet is enough. No extra hardware, downloads, or stylus are required, clients interact with a mouse, touchpad, or touchscreen.
Just use PlaySpace as your video room. It’s built for telehealth, so there’s no need for a separate platform. You can share the screen, co-play in real time, and keep everything in one place, secure, simple, and seamless.
Data is encrypted in transit and at rest; only authorized session participants can view or modify a tray. Screenshots reside in the therapist’s secure media vault, never on the client’s device, and are deletable on request.