2 CE: APA or APT -- This session explores psychological containment, a core concept in all therapy, especially expressive therapies. Containment helps individuals manage trauma and grief by safely holding emotions and memories. From early childhood, people create boundaries and coping strategies to protect themselves, but these can also limit emotional growth and distort perceptions. Relying solely on talk therapy may reinforce defenses and block healing. By combining existential and narrative therapies with developmental psychology, clinicians can understand how silence, boundaries, and "cover stories" shield vulnerability. Expressive and play therapies support clients in safely exploring trauma at their own pace. These creative approaches help externalize experiences, validate self-protection, and build healthier coping mechanisms and relationships. This session offers key insights and examples for using miniature objects to represent and process containment in therapy.