035: Bringing the Ancient Wisdom of Tarot Into the Modern Therapy Room with Kristen Leigh

The Uncommon Couch

035: Bringing the Ancient Wisdom of Tarot Into the Modern Therapy Room with Kristen Leigh

Have you thought about integrating Tarot with your clinical work? That’s exactly what our guest, Kristen Leigh, offers to her clients. Kristen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Tarot reader who is on the cutting edge of clinical practice. She brings Tarot to her work with therapy clients and she brings therapeutic methods to her Tarot sessions.

In this episode, Kristen shares how she created this unique style of clinical practice and why she would encourage other therapists to incorporate Tarot into their work. 

You’ll hear how Tarot readings have helped her clients, what these unique sessions look like, and her hopes for encouraging other therapists to bring Tarot into their clinical work.

What you’ll find in this episode:

  • How Kristen offers this unique work in her practice

  • Why therapists are interested in Tarot

  • The process she went through to advertise her Tarot readings

  • What got her interested in Tarot

  • What her sessions with clients typically look like

  • The synchronicity between Tarot readings and her clients’ situations

  • Her hopes for where she will take this and how she can expand this work in the future

About Kristen:
Kristen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Tarot reader. She is bridging the gap between the two by bringing Tarot to her therapy clients and then bringing therapeutic methods to her tarot sessions. She believes that healing is existential, and promotes the truth that both Tarot and Therapy share: the exploration of human possibility. 

Connect with Kristen:

Website | Instagram

Learn more:

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Quotes:

“I was really burning out before I started bringing Tarot into my sessions.” - Kristen