FAQ: Therapy card decks

Therapy Card Decks are tools used to facilitate emotional healing, self-awareness, and personal growth through structured prompts, exercises, or reflections. Each card provides a therapeutic question, scenario, or activity aimed at helping individuals explore their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. These decks are based on various therapeutic approaches, such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), or mindfulness practices, and are used to support mental and emotional well-being.

These decks are used by therapists, counselors, life coaches, and individuals seeking to improve their mental health or work through emotional challenges. They are popular in both one-on-one therapy sessions and group therapy settings. People who engage in self-help, personal development, or are working through specific mental health issues may also use these decks for self-guided reflection and healing.

You use these decks to promote self-reflection, develop coping strategies, and gain insight into your emotions and behaviors. The cards provide a structured yet flexible way to address issues like anxiety, depression, stress, and relationship challenges. They help break down complex emotional topics into manageable steps, offering tools for healing and personal growth. The decks encourage mindful awareness and are designed to foster emotional regulation and resilience.

To use the deck, you draw one or more cards, either randomly or based on a specific issue you want to address. Each card offers a therapeutic prompt, exercise, or reflection question that guides you through a process of self-exploration or emotional processing. In therapy sessions, the therapist may use the cards to stimulate discussion or to focus on particular areas of concern. When used individually, the cards can inspire journaling, mindfulness practices, or personal reflection exercises aimed at improving emotional well-being over time.

Thriving Beyond Toxic Relationships

UNLOCK SELF-WORTH, BUILD RESILIENT BOUNDARIES, BREAK FREE FROM MANIPULATION, CONTROL AND EMOTIONAL TRAUMA TO ACHIEVE LASTING HAPPINESS

Radical Self-Care When You Are Ill

52 SKILLS AND AFFIRMATIONS TO HELP YOU RESTORE YOUR WELL-BEING: EMOTIONAL, PHYSICAL AND MIND-BODY-SPIRIT

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A radical approach to successfully dealing with physical or emotional illness. 52 skills and affirmations designed to help you restore all aspects of your well-being including physical, emotional and mind-body-spirit.

This deck is divided into four parts. It is color coded as follows.
Blue Cards – Emotional Health
Green Cards– Physical Self-Care
Teal Cards – Mind-Body-Spirit
Sand Cards – Affirmations for Healing

These cards help you examine your beliefs, make changes in your thought patterns, tame your emotions, and adopt new behaviors to take the best care of yourself so your well-being can be restored.

It includes wide ranging skills from the fields of Mindfulness, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Positive Psychology, Mind-Body Medicine and Spirituality as well as Affirmations for Healing to help restore well-being. It also includes skills commonly used by those who experience radical remission of cancer.

Skills are included to help you get an accurate diagnosis, create a healing team, strengthen self-advocacy, and improve self-care and social support to foster healing.

Use the Mindfulness skills to engage the healing power of the mind-body connection.

Use the Mind-Body-Spirit skills to tap into your inner wisdom and the power of your spiritual beliefs and divine love and to enlist the aid of a higher power for healing.

The skills presented in the card deck are not intended to substitute for the advice of your medical doctor or mental health professional.

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Copyright 2022 Debra Burdick www.TheBrainLady.com

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Creator:

Debra Burdick

Simply Self-Wonderful

CELEBRATING THE GIFTS OF BEING UNIQUELY YOU!

SINGLE DECK

Self-Wonderful is the gift of being uniquely you!
It’s not strange to love yourself with all your heart.
It’s absolutely essential!

The longest relationship you will have in your life is the one with yourself!
Self-love isn’t always easy. There’s no Self-Love destination. It’s an ongoing journey you take with yourself. And self-love doesn’t demand perfection either. Just trying to take one step at a time is more than enough. You’ve got this!

The Simply Self-Wonderful Deck will help you love yourself. Using 33 Self-Wonderfuls and 32 Self-Woundings you will discover the Self-Wonderful gifts you already have and the Self-Woundings that can be turned into gifts to be the Simply Self-Wonderful YOU!

The Simply Self-Wonderful Deck is for you to:

o Love yourself more
o Attract people who are kinder to you
o Get unstuck
o Open areas in your life you thought were closed
o Release things that have blocked you
o Gain more energy in life
o Move with more ease and grace

The Simply Self-Wonderful Card Deck is for you if you:
• Have a hard time receiving a compliment or taking credit for your work,
• Can’t make things work out for you and you don’t know why,
• Shy away from following your desires and dreams,
• Lose sight of your abilities, skills, strengths, and talents,
• Question your own credibility,
• Feel resigned that things will never get better,
• Have troubled or short-lived, or very few relationships,
• Don’t feel you are good enough for others,
• Constantly put others needs before your own,
• Tend to have darker moods and tend towards anxiety and depression,
• Think about harming yourself to relieve uncomfortable emotions,
• Are immobilized by doubt, fear, or indecision,
• Struggle with true expressions of love.

Creator:

Judy Slater

Cosmic Deck of Initiation

LIFE IS AN AMAZING ADVENTURE!

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There comes a time in every generation when consciousness shifts, and new paradigms and philosophies begin to expand into our realities. At those times new tools and modalities evolved into the culture to facilitate the further expansion of consciousness. This deck was channeled as this new wave of consciousness crested and started to open the hearts and minds of the culture. The use of the ancient form of mandalas to express the spiritual energies of the transformation process brings the wisdom of the ancients forward in time to aide in the ascension process of the consciousness evolving to new levels of awareness.

This is your personal deck, as you work with it, as you link with the patterns and tap into the energy that is within the cards you will start to have a more intimate experience with each card and perhaps even shift or expand on the definitions given in this book. There are intentional blank spaces within so that you can take notes or shift meanings … Feel free to expand on what I have written for as it becomes more familiar to you, it literally becomes you. This deck provides a tool to tap into and open to the energies that are within you and will give philosophical wisdoms for you to consider in evolving your spiritual energies and how to use them within your reality.

This deck offers positive insights and true understandings of our realities. It gives no negative admonitions, no pejorative interpretations. Each challenge, person, and situation in life is recognized as another step, another step forward to greater self-understanding, growth and evolution of spirit. To judge our lives as good or bad is to cast opinion from a limited perspective. Challenges are opportunities for growth that we asked to be provided with in order reach greater frequencies within.

The deck Will never give you a yes or no (trust me on this one… I tried) but rather you will be given areas to focus on, wisdom to weave into situations or insights to reality that you might not have considered. This is a deck of growth and spiritual insight. It well may trigger creative energies and open you to new vistas within your life. This is a channeled deck, channeled through one who is not an artist, and yet I painted; bringing wisdom through time, and yet I am not a philosopher or sage sharing insight and spiritual magic, and yet wisdom flows through me. It came through me, not of me and I cannot express enough the love and creative gifts I have experienced because of the gift of this deck.

These cards are not just pretty paintings. They were painted in a specific order to express the Spirits journey from the time of entrance into this reality to the time of exit when we cross over into the threshold to another dimension and level of consciousness. In using the deck, it is important to pay attention not just the names of the cards but also how the patterns are placed within the form … are they sharp or rounded, how are the colors overlaid and what is the background color. Color was very important in the creation of every card. The chakra colors are represented in every card with a white center representing the Source of all creation or the Divine, or Cosmic Consciousness (you get the idea). Pay attention to how the colors are represented in each card for they will trigger messages themselves within your consciousness. The Cosmic Deck was designed and channeled with the chakra system in mind …each of the mandalas were painted with all energies represented as well. As you work with the deck and get into the greater subtleties represented you will find that the colors give you even more detailed information. For those who want to go even further into the use and understanding of the cards I am including chakra color information here so that you can draw upon it when and if you reach that point in your use of the cards. But, most importantly of all …have fun with them and remember that we are supposed to celebrate rather than just survive this lifetime and that all the gifts and talents that we carry within are tools gathered through countless lifetimes and brought to this reality to manifest even greater treasures that are within.

About the author - Barbara has been a seeker of the mysteries of spirituality and a practitioner for over half a century, at least that’s what she’ll admit to. During that time, she has become an internationally known podcast host on her show, Night-Light Radio, an author, artist, lecturer, ordained minister, and documentarian. She painted the Cosmic Deck of Initiation, a hand painted deck of Mandala Oracle cards to be used for private divination and spiritual growth and wrote the handbook, How to use the Cosmic Deck of Initiation. Her website, https://barbaradelong.com is a teaching site combining personal information and a plethora of spiritual material, intended to supply insight and light, laughter, and love for all those seeking their own personal pathway within the spiritual spheres.

Razor Group Interactive – This app has been a spiritual and creative collaboration between myself and Razor Group Interactive, lovingly called by me “Elf Central.” Their creative and technical skills have gone far and above my expectations, and beyond, crossing over into elements of real magic. Razor Group has been meticulous in all areas and often stretching my material into new levels of expression even I had not seen. They are responsible for the magic carried within, supplying the magic carpet upon which this app travels. I cannot thank Razor Group and Elf Central enough.
https://razorgroup.com/

Creator:

Barbara DeLong

RENEW: The Work Before the Work

CLARIFY YOUR PURPOSE, ENERGIZE YOUR INTENTIONS, AND MAKE PEACE WITH THE PATH AHEAD

SINGLE DECK

Clarify Your Purpose. Energize Your Intentions. Make Peace with the Path Ahead.

So many people long for healing, change, and a life that feels aligned—but when they finally begin the process, they quickly feel overwhelmed, scattered, or unsure of where to start. Beneath the surface, their thoughts are tangled, their energy is drained by inner resistance, and their deeper “why” remains unclear.

This is where RENEW: The Work Before the Work becomes essential.

This guided card deck and journaling system is your foundation for transformation. It helps you clear the mental and emotional clutter that clouds your vision, reconnect with what truly matters, and align your energy with purposeful intention, before you dive into the deeper healing work.

Through thoughtful prompts, affirmations, and reflections, you'll gently uncover unconscious beliefs, dissolve internal blocks, and make space for clarity and focus. Journaling becomes a powerful mirror, revealing patterns, releasing confusion, and guiding you back to your inner truth.

By slowing down and engaging in intentional reflection, you begin to listen to yourself beyond the noise, beyond fear, and beyond distraction. You reconnect with your heart, your values, and your readiness to evolve.

This is not just preparation, it’s a profound act of self-honoring.
When the foundation is clear and your energy is aligned, you're no longer chasing healing from a place of chaos or depletion. Instead, you’re grounded, focused, and open—ready to step into deeper work with strength, clarity, and calm.

The result?
A renewed sense of direction.
An energized connection to your truth.
And a calm, centered readiness to become your most radiant, whole, and empowered self.

Creator:

Linda Sellers