Touching the Loss and Creating a New Sense of Being in Clay Field Therapy: A Longitudinal Phenomenological Research
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2025
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Özet
Clay Field Therapy is a trauma-informed Sensorimotor Art Therapy
rooted in haptic perception. It emphasizes the tactile relationship
between the individual’s hands and materials, providing a non-verbal
avenue for deep therapeutic processing. The combination of three
fundamental materials creates Clay Field: a rectangular wooden
box filled with smooth clay and warm water. This longitudinal
phenomenological study aims to examine the experiences of
individuals undergoing Clay Field Therapy to process complex grief.
The participant group consists of four women, aged between 30 and
45, who sought Clay Field Therapy due to their unique experiences of
loss and grief. Data was collected through participant-led, in-depth,
process-oriented, and semi-structured interviews conducted after the
first and twelfth Clay Field sessions of each participant. Longitudinal
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was employed to explore
in detail how participants attributed meaning to their experiences,
changes, and transformations during Clay Field Therapy. Four
superordinate themes emerged from the analysis of data: beyond
words, from nothingness towards existence, from tangible experiences
towards a transformative spiritual experience, and a comprehensive
sense of being. Clay Field Therapy facilitates not only the resolution
of the grief process but also enables profound existential work and
spiritual growth. This process, in which individuals reconstruct the
meaning of life through their tactile encounters in the Clay Field, has
been conceptualized as “Embodied Reflection.”
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Clay Field Therapy, Complicated grief, Embodied reflection, Embodiment, Expressive Art Therapy, Haptic perception, Longitudinal interpretative phenomenological analysis, Sensorimotor Art Therapy
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Spiritual Psychology and Counseling
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Başoğlu Yavuz, S. (2025). Touching the loss and creating a new sense of being in clay field therapy: A longitudinal phenomenological research. Spiritual Psychology and Counseling, 10(1), 19–46.
http://doi.org/10.37898/spiritualpc.1575609
