Best Practices for using Tarot Cards in Counseling Sessions, with Paula Spare

How much do you know about tarot cards? Are you interested in bringing tarot into therapy for your clients? How do tarot cards compliment CBT? MEET PAULA SPAREPaula is a former educator and classically trained musician. She left teaching due to illness which led her to study yoga and Ayurveda for the past 15 years. During that time she returned to her love of the metaphysical, which led to the birth of https://openkeytarot.com/index.html (Open Key Tarot). Recently, she received her Masters in Counseling and is working towards removing the stigma and taboo of Holistic modalities in counseling. She is passionate about ethically enhancing traditional theoretical modalities (CBT, etc.) with archetypal tools like Tarot. Connect with Paula on https://www.facebook.com/openkeytarot/ (Facebook) and https://www.instagram.com/openkeytarot/ (Instagram). Visit the https://openkeytarot.com/index.html (Open Key Tarot) website. IN THIS PODCAST:How can tarot cards help therapists with clients Using tarot with CBT Introducing a client to tarot cards How can tarot cards help therapists with clients Tarot cards can be beneficial for clients who are stable and do not struggle with psychosis. They are grounding tools, and when a patient is feeling more grounded, they can receive more benefits from it. Although, tarot cards do need to be tied to a theoretical orientation. Somebody’s who’s having a hard time with, for example, money … and feeling like they’re completely drained, you could have a deck of cards … you could have [the client] shuffle the deck, take a look at which one they pull out and say: “let’s talk about this”. (Paula Spare)You can use the cards as conversation starters to get to the deeper meanings and findings behind a client’s thought processes. Using tarot with CBT Tarot cards can act as conversation starters, and they encourage clients to think about the deeper meanings behind what they feel when they interact with a card. Therefore, tarot cards can be used alongside CBT as a mental health techn