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6 Law & Ethics CEs!
Using Tarot Card Imagery with Clients: Clinical and Ethical Applications
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Thursday, March 6th – Friday, March 7th, 2025 | 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM, Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 12 CEs, 6 Law & Ethics CEs | $349.00
Important Note: No prior experience with tarot cards is necessary for this training. All are welcome!
Are you curious about using tarot with clients but unsure where to start? Then this workshop is for you!
As a richly symbolic non-verbal language of metaphor, there are uses for the cards (other than divination) that are perfect for clinical work: When employed as an expressive-arts-based projective tool, the imagery found on tarot cards can help your clients immediately connect with their deep intuitive wisdom. Tarot cards are also a powerful way for clients to access and activate internal resources, externally. In addition, clients can explore unconscious material through archetypal imagery on each card.
At the same time, due to their provocative artwork, tarot cards can be integrated into therapeutic modalities such as narrative therapy, Internal Family Systems, art therapy, expressive arts therapy, depth psychology, Jungian psychology, journaling therapy, and transpersonal psychology, as well as any modality used for trauma healing.
This experiential and interactive training teaches you how to ethically use tarot cards with your clients. We will discuss the different ways you can integrate tarot into your sessions, the clinical language you can use to describe what you’re doing in your notes, and how to safely and respectfully introduce tarot cards to clients.
Most of the training will be hands-on, as you will experience a wide variety of creative and therapeutic activities using the cards. The facilitator, the author of “The Tarot Activity Book” (under her former name, Andy Matzner), has been using tarot cards with clients for twenty years and can’t wait to share what she knows with you. Come prepared to have fun and to go deep!
Please be sure to have a tarot deck on hand, along with a notebook.
Recommended decks: The Rider-Waite Tarot Deck, The Modern Witch Tarot Deck, Light Seers Tarot, The Muse Tarot. This Might Hurt Tarot Deck: the Fifth Spirit Tarot, the Radiant Tarot
Here is the link to Dreya’s Book (under her old name): “The Tarot Activity Book.”
Objectives:
- Understand how to use tarot cards with clients ethically
- Understand ethical ways of providing informed consent to clients regarding the use of tarot card imagery in session
- Identify ethical ways to discuss tarot card imagery with clients
- Discuss how to ethically market oneself as a clinician who utilizes tarot card imagery
- Learn the use of tarot card imagery as an externalization tool
- Explore the symbolic use of tarot card imagery in its relation to healing
- Discuss various methods for utilizing tarot cards as a projective device for accessing intuitive knowledge
- Identify how to integrate tarot card imagery into therapeutic modalities such as Internal Family Systems, narrative therapy, art therapy, and transpersonal psychology
- Understand the connections between tarot card imagery and the expressive arts
- Understand the connection between tarot card imagery and archetypes
- Practice a wide range of clinical activities utilizing tarot cards that can be done with clients
- Explore best practices for introducing tarot cards to clients
- Learn how to market oneself as a “tarot-friendly” clinician