Counselling Skills with Tarot

Join Amanda Watson for a practical livestream workshop introducing counselling skills alongside tarot, using the cards as a tool for reflection, exploration and meaningful conversation. For intermediate +.

Have you ever wondered how counselling skills can be used with tarot as a tool for reflection, exploration and questioning that encourages more meaningful conversations? This workshop explores how the rich imagery, symbolism and archetypes within tarot can provide a powerful projective and reflective tool, helping people find their own meanings, perspectives and possibilities – moving away from "What is going to happen?" and towards questions like "What does this image bring up for you?" and "What do you notice?"

Meet your tutor, Amanda Watson

Amanda Watson brings a strong combination of intuitive gifts and professional grounding, uniting tarot, psychic mediumship and psychotherapy into a holistic practice. She trained in tarot at The College of Psychic Studies from 2015 under Avril Price, completing the Tarot Diploma before qualifying as a professional Tarot Consultant. Alongside this, she is a practising psychotherapist and counsellor specialising in psychosexual and relationship issues, with 25 years' experience in education – a rare combination that makes her ideally placed to bridge tarot and counselling practice.

What to expect

This is a practical, interactive online workshop for those already familiar with tarot or who have trained in tarot to an intermediate level. You'll learn to use open questions and active listening alongside tarot imagery, introduce tarot cards safely within a helping relationship, and facilitate conversations around emotions, relationships, choices and life transitions – always helping clients develop their own interpretations rather than imposing meaning. By the end, you'll have a collection of practical counselling-based techniques and tarot exercises to begin experimenting with in your own practice.

This online intermediate workshop includes:

• Using open questions and active listening alongside tarot imagery
• Introducing tarot cards safely and appropriately within a helping relationship
• Using images and symbolism to encourage reflection and self-exploration
• Facilitating conversations around emotions, relationships, choices and life transitions
• Helping clients develop their own interpretations rather than imposing meaning
• Combining counselling skills with simple tarot-based exercises
• Creating reflective tarot spreads for therapeutic-style conversations
• Maintaining appropriate professional boundaries and ethical practice
• Recognising when tarot may be inappropriate or when additional support is needed

Who is this workshop for:

• Intermediate-level tarot readers and above, already familiar with the cards
• Students who have completed Tarot Intermediate at The College of Psychic Studies, or who have trained to a competent intermediate level elsewhere.
• Those curious about incorporating creative and symbolic approaches into their work
• Anyone wanting to develop their communication, listening and questioning skills
• Practitioners interested in the crossover between tarot and counselling-style conversation

Please note: This workshop is educational in nature and does not train participants to practise as formal, accredited counsellors or psychotherapists.

What to bring:

• A tarot deck of your choice (we'll predominantly work with the Rider Waite deck)
• A notebook and pen

Come with an open mind, and leave with a new set of tools for facilitating reflection and meaningful conversation – book your place today.

Exclusively live online event

We will not be recording this workshop. One of the unique aspects of the College's online events is that they are highly interactive. Participants are encouraged to discuss and share with the tutor and the group. These sharings can be very personal, and some may not feel comfortable with them being recorded.

Previous participants say:

"Amanda Watson was a confident and knowledgeable teacher who ran a well organized class."

"Fun class. Great teacher."

"I enjoyed the course's content, presentation and structure and felt that I gained a great deal from the group activities and teaching and learning sessions."

"An absolutely excellent class on a very interesting topic! There was so much interesting material to engage with."