Ignez is a Teaching Member of Sandplay (DGST, ISST) and a member of DGAP and IAAP. She supervises at the Institute of Analytical Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents in Heidelberg. She collaborates with the C.G. Jung Institute Stuttgart (Germany) and several Institutes in Brazil. Her research focuses on non-verbal creative expressions in sandplay, drawings, music, and body language. Her articles have been published in Germany, Switzerland, USA, England (JAP) and Brazil.