The Team

Masha, the founder of the Sand & Sound 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 (France, Norway, Russia, Kazakhstan, Sri Lanka, Latvia, Lithuania) since 2006. Apart from Integrative Sandplay Therapy, Sound Healing and Pesso Boyden work her specialist interests include Trauma & PTSD, Therapeutic Art, Metaphors of Movement, Dreamwork, 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 and supervision in English and Russian. You can find more information on her experience and qualifications here, and on her writing and publications here.

You can contact Masha via email masha@practicalhappiness.co.uk or phone 07887 617558 (please send an SMS or WhatsApp message first to arrange time to talk). You can follow her main Facebook page https://facebook.com/masha.bennett, or her business page (less used) Masha's Sand & Sound Centre here https://facebook.com/sand.sound.soul