About

Masha Bennett, the founder of the Sand & Sound Soul Centre, is a Psychotherapist, Sandplay Therapist, Clinical Supervisor and Sound Healer based in Glossop near Manchester, UK. After her early career in zoology, botany and horticulture, she has been working with adults and young people therapeutically since 2000, in prisons, probation service, residential children’s homes, National Health Service, primary schools, charities, and in private practice. Masha is a trauma specialist and has an MSc in Therapeutic Practice for Psychological Trauma. She has delivered many training courses and workshops to health professionals and general public in the UK and internationally (Norway, Russia, Kazakhstan, Sri Lanka, Latvia, Lithuania, Israel) since 2006. Apart from Sandplay Therapy and Sound Healing, her specialist interests include Trauma & PTSD, Therapeutic Art, Metaphor and Dream Work, Emotional Freedom Techniques, and the Enneagram. In her spare time Masha paints pictures, walks her two border collies and has many cups of tea in her wild woodland garden. Masha can offer therapy in English and Russian.