Jacquelyn Kelley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Thanatologist, and Teaching Member of both Sandplay Therapists of America and the International Society for Sandplay Therapy. She practices in Plano, Texas, and serves as President of STA.
Kelley brings a distinctive perspective to sandplay therapy through her training in thanatology (the study of death and dying). She has integrated sandplay therapy into both hospice work and school social work settings, extending the modality's reach beyond traditional private practice.
As the contact person for the Texas Sandplay Society, she serves as a regional leader supporting sandplay practitioners across Texas. Her combination of clinical social work, thanatology, and sandplay therapy represents a unique integration of depth psychological and end-of-life care traditions.
Specialties
Depth orientation
Integrates sandplay therapy with thanatological practice, working with the symbolic and transformative dimensions of death, dying, and grief. This intersection echoes depth psychology's long engagement with death and rebirth as central motifs of the individuation process.