The Creative Attachment Interview: Using Sandtray to Reflect on Relational Dynamics in Creative Supervision

This paper presents The Creative Attachment Interview, a creative and symbolic approach that utilizes sandtray to explore an adult's attachment history, with the potential for illuminating relational patterns that may impact current caregiving relationships. The author intends to particularly highlight the potential for this approach in clinical supervision for play therapists and mental health practitioners. To provide context, the author explains the theoretical ground and original reasons for developing the Creative Attachment Interview. She then provides a rationale for its application in clinical supervision by briefly exploring the intersectionality of attachment and sandtray, summarising support for using sandtray in clinical supervision and discussing requirements for facilitating this approach. The author describes the Creative Attachment Interview with a discussion of a case example.