Sand tray and talk therapy in Lindon, Utah
A tray, a story, a way through.
DALLIN BRUUN THERAPY LLC is a quiet private practice at 199 N 290 W Ste 150, Lindon - 84042-5004, United States (US), where hands and words work together. Clients come for anxiety, grief, family strain and seasons of change. Every session begins with a simple choice about what to place in the sand first.
Wooden sand tray — combed juniper lines in warm sand
Bamboo rake, bridge and stones wait on the tray edge
Six miniature figures and a watering can by the low window
DALLIN BRUUN THERAPY LLC opens its autumn evening slots for new clients.
W/04Six sessions on the shelf
Every service is a shelf of its own
The practice keeps six kinds of work on the wall, each one leaning next to the next. Some clients begin with sand and no words. Others begin with a sentence and no sand. The shelf is arranged so that either door is open, and the path through is chosen together.
Sand Tray Therapy
A shallow wooden tray, a stretch of fine sand and a shelf of small figures give the mind a place to speak without sentences. Clients arrange the sand, place the objects and let the scene carry what words cannot reach yet. We then look at the world that appears and trace what it might be telling us.
This work is gentle and remarkably direct at the same time, which is why it is the calm centre of the practice.
S-01 IN SESSION Read more about sand tray therapyIndividual Talk Therapy
Some seasons need a steady room and a listener who does not flinch. Individual talk therapy is a weekly hour for sorting the load you carry, naming what has been vague and choosing a next honest step. We work at a pace that keeps you grounded rather than overwhelmed.
By the end of several weeks, most clients can hear their own thinking more clearly.
S-02 Read more about individual talk therapyTeen Counseling
The teenage years bring a rush of feeling that rarely arrives with words attached. Teen counseling gives a young person a space that is theirs alone, where sand, figures and honest conversation can share the hour. We work on identity, school pressure, friendship and family friction without turning the room into a lecture.
Parents are kept informed on the shape of the work while the details stay with the teen.
S-03 GROUNDED Read more about teen counselingFamily Sessions
Families often arrive carrying one story each. In family sessions the tray becomes a shared landscape where every member places a figure at the same time, and the arrangement shows where the room is warm and where it is tight. We practice hearing one another without defending.
The goal is not blame but a household that can breathe again together.
S-04 Read more about family sessionsAnxiety and Stress Work
Anxiety is a body that is always bracing for the next thing. This work slows the alarm down with breath, grounding and the steady rhythm of arranging sand and objects. We name the triggers, map the patterns and build small routines that hold when the day gets loud.
Over time the nervous system learns that the room is safe and the body can rest between efforts.
S-05 IN SESSION Read more about anxiety and stress workLife Transitions
Moving, graduating, changing work, becoming a parent, losing someone, ending a long chapter — transitions ask us to become a new version of ourselves while the old one is still speaking. These sessions give the crossing a witness and a map, so the change can be grieved and welcomed at once.
We honor what is being left behind and build the footing for what comes next.
S-06 Read more about life transitionsWhy sand carries words
A scene can hold what a sentence cannot
When a person is invited to build a small world in a tray, the hands take over and the pressure to explain lifts. Figures find places, bridges span gaps, and stones mark where the ground is uncertain. What appears in the sand is not a puzzle to solve but a picture to stand beside.
In session we ask careful questions rather than offering quick answers, and the client remains the author of every choice. Over weeks the trays change, and so does the person arranging them. Explore the full services page to see how this unfolds.
The practice in plain words
Talk therapy and sand work at DALLIN BRUUN THERAPY LLC
DALLIN BRUUN THERAPY LLC is a private practice built around two quiet instruments: the spoken word and the shallow tray. Located at 199 N 290 W Ste 150, Lindon - 84042-5004, United States (US), the practice serves adults, teenagers and families across the surrounding valley. Sessions are held in a room arranged like a small studio, with wooden trays on a low table, shelves of miniature figures and a bamboo rake that clients often reach for before they say a single thing.
Individual talk therapy is the backbone of the work. It is a weekly hour in which the client sets the agenda and the therapist holds the thread. For those who find that feelings arrive faster than language, sand tray therapy offers a parallel road. Handled figures and sculpted sand surface material that a direct question might push further down, which is why the practice treats both methods as equal partners rather than a warm-up and the real thing.
Teen counseling at the practice honours the particular weather of adolescence. Young clients are given control over what they share and how quickly they share it, and the tray is often the first place a hard week becomes visible. Family sessions extend that work to the whole household, using shared tray building to show patterns that family members recognize the moment they see them. Anxiety and stress work brings breath, grounding and routine into the room so the body can learn to settle. Life transitions rounds out the shelf for the seasons when a person is crossing from one version of life into the next. Each of these is described in more depth on the services page.
The practice keeps its caseload deliberately small so that each client is known rather than processed. Appointments are available during the day and into the evening, and inquiries begin with a simple message to booking@dallinbruuntherapy.lat or a call to +15303235734. If you are unsure which kind of session fits, the first conversation is designed to answer exactly that question.
Nothing here is rushed. The tray gets combed, the story gets told, and the way through gets found one hand at a time.
A room made for settling
Small objects, steady hours
The room is lit by a low window and lined with shelves of small figures: animals, people, bridges, stones, tiny houses and trees. A wooden tray sits at the centre with sand raked into soft lines at the end of every session. Clients are welcome to touch anything on the shelf and to leave the tray exactly as they wish.
Between sessions the sand is swept and the figures are returned to their places, so each visit begins with a clean world and no expectations about what it should become. The room is quiet by design, and the hour belongs entirely to the person in it.
Begin
Let the first tray be blank
Reach out to DALLIN BRUUN THERAPY LLC and we will find an hour that fits. The first step is simply a message, and the rest can be built one figure at a time.
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