Therapeutic Tarot

Where ancient symbols and intuitive wisdom guide the soul’s journey towards self-discovery and healing.

At Storm Haven, we are passionate about embracing the harmonious blend of ancient wisdom and modern science to cater to your unique therapeutic needs. Our holistic approach extends beyond conventional methods, integrating a diverse array of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practices that honor the mind, body, and soul. Among these transformative modalities is the art of Therapeutic Tarot.

Therapeutic Tarot, an enchanting and client-led practice, harnesses the power of imagery as a projective technique to delve into the depths of the unconscious mind. This profound exploration allows us to cultivate intuition, gain insight, and unlock the inner wisdom that resides within each of us. Rest assured, Therapeutic Tarot at Storm Haven is not about divination or fortune telling; it’s a therapeutic tool rooted in deep understanding and trust.

Our approach honors both the visual language of the cards and the felt sense that emerges between client and therapist in the room—letting intuition, symbolism, and emotional resonance guide the work.

Our commitment to your well-being extends to the thoughtful use of Therapeutic Tarot, which is exclusively used with clients whom we have built a relationship with. This ensures a profound understanding of your unique needs and a collaborative approach to co-creating meaning together, enriching the therapeutic journey.

More Than Just the Cards: Attuning to Energy, Emotion, and Connection

At Storm Haven, Therapeutic Tarot isn’t a script or a step-by-step formula. It’s a living, breathing dialogue—one that unfolds not just through the cards on the table but through everything happening in the room between client and therapist.

Yes, the imagery matters. The symbols, archetypes, and visual language of the tarot offer a powerful lens for reflection and insight. But what truly shapes the experience is the therapist’s attunement:

👉 The subtle shifts in your voice.

👉 The flicker of emotion that crosses your face.

👉 The quiet energy change when a certain card appears.

Your therapist is reading the emotional temperature as much as the card spread—listening for what’s spoken and what lingers just beneath. Every session is a co-created experience, where intuition, professional training, and real human connection intersect.

It’s not about giving answers. It’s about holding space for discovery—and trusting what emerges in the moment.

Here are some of the remarkable ways Therapeutic Tarot is utilized during our sessions:

1. Creative Expression Canvas: Tarot cards become a canvas for creative self-expression, allowing you to explore your inner world artistically. (Complementary to Art in Therapy)
2. Symbolic Language Dialogue: Tarot cards provide a symbolic language to express complex emotions and experiences that may be difficult to articulate otherwise (Complementary to Narrative Therapy)
3. Emotional Imagery Processing: The imagery of Tarot cards serves as a safe medium to express and process both positive and challenging emotions (Complementary to Gestalt Therapy)
4. Emotional Regulation Tool: Therapeutic Tarot aids in emotional regulation, helping you navigate intense feelings and find equilibrium (Complementary to Dialectical Behavioral Therapy)
5. Intuitive Wisdom Unleashed: Through the intuitive interpretation of Tarot cards, you can tap into your inner wisdom and intuition (Complementary to Humanistic and Person-Centered Therapy)
6. Inner Conflict Resolution: Tarot cards can represent different aspects of the self, facilitating dialogue and resolution of inner conflicts (Complementary to Internal Family Systems)
7. IFS Integration Exploration: Therapeutic Tarot can be integrated with Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy to explore and harmonize the various parts of your psyche (Complementary to Internal Family Systems)
8. Strength Illumination: Tarot imagery can illuminate your inner strengths and assets, empowering you to harness them effectively (Complementary to Positive Psychology)
9. Resource Mobilization Catalyst: Tarot cards can be a catalyst for discovering and mobilizing your internal resources for growth and healing (Complementary to Solution Focused Therapy)
10. Coping Strategy Crafting: Together, we can craft positive coping strategies and solutions inspired by Tarot insights (Complementary to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy)
11. Stress-Reducing Creativity: The creative process of working with Tarot cards offers a soothing and stress-reducing outlet (Complementary to Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction)
12. Meaningful Reflection: Tarot cards invite reflection on life’s deeper meaning and purpose, fostering a sense of fulfillment (Complementary to Existential Therapy)
13. Hidden Realm Revelation: Tarot’s symbolic language can unveil buried emotions, desires, and conflicts that lie beneath conscious awareness (Complementary to Psychoanalysis)
14. Life Story Narration: Tarot cards become storytellers, helping you narrate and understand your life journey (Complementary to Narrative Therapy)
15. Goal Identification: Together, we can use Tarot to identify your goals and the obstacles that stand in your path (Complimentary to Solution-Focused Brief Therapy)
16. Self-Reflection Enhancement: The introspective nature of Tarot aids in enhancing self-awareness and self-reflection (Complementary to Reflective Practice)
17. Emotional Intelligence Sharpening: Tarot insights can sharpen your emotional intelligence, helping you navigate relationships and emotions more skillfully (Complementary to Emotional Intelligence Theory)
18. Decision-Making Enhancement: Tarot’s guidance can inform your decision-making process and enhance problem-solving abilities (Complementary to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
19. Accessing Subconscious Desires: Tarot cards can serve as a bridge to your subconscious desires and unspoken aspirations. They help you articulate and understand what truly matters to you, guiding you towards aligning your life with your inner yearnings (Complementary to Depth Psychology)
20. Enhancing Self-Reflection: Tarot encourages deep self-reflection. The symbolism in the cards prompts you to contemplate your life choices, values, and beliefs, facilitating personal growth and self-awareness (Complementary to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy)
21. Clarifying Relationships: Therapeutic Tarot can be employed to explore and gain clarity on your relationships. By examining the dynamics and emotions represented in the cards, you can navigate complex interpersonal connections more effectively (Complementary to Dialectical Behavioral Therapy)
22. Exploring Personal Mythology: Tarot cards often contain mythological and archetypal themes. They provide a platform to explore your personal mythology, connecting your life story to timeless narratives and symbols (Complementary to Jungian Psychology)
23. Guiding Decision-Making: When faced with important decisions, Tarot can be consulted to offer insights and perspectives, aiding in the decision-making process. It encourages you to consider various facets of the choice at hand (Complementary to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
24. Setting Intentions: Tarot can be used to set intentions and goals for personal growth and transformation. It helps you clarify your aspirations and the steps needed to achieve them (Complementary of Positive Psychology)
25. Uncovering Patterns: Over multiple sessions, Tarot can reveal patterns in your life, both positive and challenging. This awareness enables you to make conscious choices and break free from unhelpful cycles (Complementary of Narrative Therapy)
26. Facilitating Symbolic Healing: The images and symbols in Tarot cards can be used symbolically for healing purposes. They may represent aspects of yourself or experiences that need acknowledgment, processing, or resolution (Complementary to Psychodynamic Therapy)
27. Inspiring Creative Expression: Tarot cards when used with Art in Therapy can be a wellspring of inspiration for creative expression, such as writing, art, or journaling. They provide a canvas for channeling your emotions and thoughts (Complementary to Art in Therapy)
28. Supporting Mindfulness: The act of engaging with Tarot cards can promote mindfulness and presence. It encourages you to focus on the here and now, fostering a sense of calm and centeredness (Complementary to Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy)
29. Exploring Spiritual Growth: Tarot can be a gateway to exploring your spiritual path and connection to the divine or the transcendent. It invites you to contemplate deeper spiritual questions and experiences (Complementary to Transpersonal Psychology)
30. Building Resilience: By working with Tarot, you can build emotional resilience and coping skills. It assists you in processing challenging emotions and finding inner strength (Complementary to Resilience Psychology)
31. Enhancing Self-Compassion: Tarot readings can be a vehicle for self-compassion and self-acceptance. They guide you in embracing all aspects of yourself with kindness and understanding (Complementary to Compassion-Focused Therapy)
32. Promoting Self-Expression: Tarot can encourage you to express your thoughts, feelings, and experiences more openly and authentically, helping you find your voice (Complementary to Person-Centered Therapy)
33. Chakra Alignment: Use Tarot cards to align and balance the chakras. Assign specific cards or spreads to each chakra and explore how they relate to your client’s energy centers. This can help identify areas of imbalance and promote energetic healing (Complementary to Energy Psychology)
34. Conflict Resolution: Utilize Tarot cards can support and facilitate conflict resolution. Each party involved can draw cards to represent their perspectives and emotions. The cards can serve as a visual aid for understanding differing viewpoints and finding common ground (Complementary to Gottman Therapy)
35. Exploring Dreams: Integrate Tarot into dream analysis sessions. Clients can draw cards to represent elements of their dreams or the emotions experienced during dream recall. This approach can deepen the exploration of dream symbolism and meanings (Complementary to Dream Analysis)
36. Emotional Release: Tarot cards can be used as a tool for emotional release. Clients can select cards that resonate with their current emotions and use them as a focal point for expressing and processing feelings during the session (Complementary to Catharsis Theory)
37. Goal Setting and Progress Tracking: Tarot can assist in setting therapeutic goals and tracking progress. Clients can draw cards to represent their goals, and in subsequent sessions, they can draw additional cards to assess their progress and explore any obstacles (Complementary to Goal Setting Theory)
38. Journaling and Self-Reflection: Encourage clients to keep a Tarot journal. They can draw a daily card to reflect on their thoughts, feelings, and experiences. Over time, this practice fosters self-awareness and provides a record of personal growth (Complementary to Reflective Practice)
39. Empowerment Affirmations: Create empowering affirmations based on Tarot insights. Clients can choose cards that represent qualities they wish to embody or challenges they want to overcome. These cards become visual affirmations that clients can carry with them as reminders of their inner strength (Complementary to Strength-Based Approach)
40. Life Path Exploration: Use Tarot cards to explore and reflect on your client’s life path. Create a spread that represents different stages or aspects of their journey, such as past experiences, present challenges, and future aspirations. This approach allows clients to gain insights into the larger narrative of their lives and how their current circumstances fit into their overall life path. It can also help them set intentions and make decisions aligned with their life’s purpose (Complementary to Narrative Therapy)

At Storm Haven, Therapeutic Tarot is just one facet of our versatile and holistic approach that adapts to your unique therapeutic needs and goals. It is a dynamic tool that can be integrated into the therapeutic process in numerous ways, providing a rich and meaningful journey of self-discovery and healing. These diverse approaches to incorporating Therapeutic Tarot into sessions offer a wide range of perspectives and tools to support clients on their journey of self-discovery, healing, and personal growth. We are dedicated to weaving together the threads of your unique journey, facilitating healing, and empowering you to embrace your full potential, making your therapeutic experience at Storm Haven truly transformative and holistic.

Therapeutic Tarot: A Complementary Practice for Inner Healing and Growth

Unlock the wisdom within as therapeutic tarot becomes a mirror for your soul’s journey, illuminating the path to self-discovery and healing.

🌙 Embracing the Mystical Journey: Therapeutic Tarot in Psychotherapy 🌙

Welcome to the enchanting realm where the wisdom of tarot cards intertwines with the transformative essence of psychotherapy. As mental health psychotherapists practicing holistic practices, we understand the intricate dance of guiding individuals through their personal odysseys. In this mystical message, let’s explore the incorporation of Therapeutic Tarot as a complementary practice across various therapeutic modalities.

 Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT):

🕯️ Meaningful Reflection: Connect with Meaning-Making using Tarot cards, fostering a sense of fulfillment in line with ACT principles.

🕯️ Enhancing Self-Reflection: Improve self-awareness through the introspective nature of Tarot, aligning with ACT principles.

🕯️ Goal Setting and Progress Tracking: Use Tarot to assist in setting therapeutic goals and tracking progress, in line with ACT goal-setting strategies.

 Humanistic:

🌿 Intuitive Wisdom Unleashed: Connect with Intuition through the intuitive interpretation of Tarot cards, aligning with the humanistic approach.

🌿 Setting Intentions: Tarot can be used to set intentions and goals for personal growth and transformation, a humanistic concept of self-directed growth.

🌿 Supporting Mindfulness: Engaging with Tarot cards can promote mindfulness and presence, fostering a sense of calm and centeredness in line with humanistic principles.

 Jungian:

🌌 Exploring Personal Mythology: Tarot cards often contain mythological and archetypal themes, providing a platform to explore personal mythology in alignment with Jungian principles.

🌌 Hidden Realm Revelation: Uncover Hidden Feelings, Desires, and Conflicts using Tarot’s symbolic language, a concept resonant with Jungian analysis.

🌌 Life Path Exploration: Use Tarot cards to explore and reflect on the client’s life path, aligning with the narrative and archetypal focus of Jungian therapy.

 Fandom Therapy:

🌟 Inspiring Creative Expression: Tarot cards, when used with Art in Therapy, can be a wellspring of inspiration for creative expression, catering to the creative aspects of fandom therapy.

🌟 Journaling and Self-Reflection: Encourage clients to keep a Tarot journal for self-reflection, aligning with the introspective and fan-created content focus of fandom therapy.

 Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT):

🌈 Emotional Regulation Tool: Regulate Emotions using Therapeutic Tarot, assisting clients in navigating intense feelings and finding equilibrium, a core aspect of DBT.

🌈 Clarifying Relationships: Explore and gain clarity on relationships using Therapeutic Tarot through the lens of DBT, navigating complex interpersonal connections more effectively.

 Solution Focused Therapy:

🚀 Coping Strategy Crafting: Create Positive Coping Strategies and solutions inspired by Tarot insights, aligning with the goal-oriented focus of Solution-Focused Therapy.

🚀 Goal Identification: Identify Goals and Obstacles using Tarot, applying Solution-Focused principles to guide clients towards their objectives.

 Person-Centered Therapy:

🌺 Inspiring Creative Expression: Tarot cards, when used with Art in Therapy, can inspire creative expression and authenticity, aligning with the person-centered focus on self-expression.

🌺 Promoting Self-Expression: Encourage clients to express thoughts, feelings, and experiences openly and authentically using Tarot, in line with person-centered therapy principles.

 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT):

🧠 Decision-Making Enhancement: Enhance Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Skills using Tarot’s guidance, aligning with the problem-solving approach of CBT.

🧠 Coping Strategy Crafting: Craft positive coping strategies and solutions inspired by Tarot insights, integrating cognitive and behavioral components.

 Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR):

💧 Emotional Release: Use Tarot cards as a tool for emotional release, providing clients with a focal point for expressing and processing feelings during the session, in line with EMDR principles.

 Integrative Therapy:

🌈 IFS Integration Exploration: Integrate Therapeutic Tarot with Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy to explore and harmonize various parts of the psyche, aligning with the integrative approach.

🌈 Chakra Alignment: Use Tarot cards to align and balance the chakras, integrating energy psychology principles into therapy.

🌈 Facilitating Symbolic Healing: Use the symbols in Tarot cards for symbolic healing purposes, resonating with the integrative therapy focus on combining various therapeutic modalities.

 Other Orientations (Narrative Therapy, Art Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Approaches):

📖 Life Story Narration: Explore and Tell Your Story Through Images using Tarot cards as storytellers, aligning with narrative therapy and art therapy.

📖 Stress-Reducing Creativity: Engage in a Creative Activity for Stress Reduction through the creative process of working with Tarot cards, aligning with mindfulness-based stress reduction approaches.

📖 Exploring Spiritual Growth: Tarot can be a gateway to exploring spiritual paths and connections to the divine or transcendent, inviting contemplation of deeper spiritual questions and experiences.

📖 Building Resilience: By working with Tarot, clients can build emotional resilience and coping skills, incorporating various therapeutic modalities.

📖 Enhancing Self-Compassion: Tarot readings can be a vehicle for self-compassion and self-acceptance, guiding clients in embracing all aspects of themselves with kindness and understanding.

📖 Promoting Self-Expression: Tarot can encourage clients to express thoughts, feelings, and experiences more openly and authentically, aligning with various therapeutic approaches.

📖 Emotional Release: Tarot cards can be used as a tool for emotional release, aligning with cathartic approaches.

The magical journey of self-discovery and healing, where the language of Tarot intertwines with the art of psychotherapy. May the cards be ever in your favor as we explore the depths of the human psyche towards holistic well-being. 🌟🕯️✨