Institute of Dreams and Tarotpy

09/18/2025

Imagery International's 17th Annual Conference takes place from

October 17 to October 19, 2025.

2025 Speaker List

Raphaella Brice
Artist and “Creative MidWife”
The Art of MidWifing: Guiding the Unseen into the Seen

Joseph Le Page
Author, Founder and Director of Enchanted Mountain Yoga Center in Brazil, Founder and Director of Integrative Yoga Therapy
Mudra Practice as a Support for Guided Imagery Work

Tori Paul,
RYT Contemplative and Transpersonal Studies Researcher
Body as Altar: Creativity as Ritual Inquiry

Susanne Hodgins
Deep Imagery Practitioner
From Zen to Deep Imagery

Juergen Bolz
Coach and Trainer
Evolving Deep Imagery: Synchronicity Journeying in Groups

Esther Hall
Facilitator of Transformational Change in Healthcare Systems
Opening and Connecting: Revealing Internal Systems Through Imagery

Laura Caplan, MPH
Manifesting an Awakened Life, The Role of Imagery in Creating our Future

Lauren Z. Schneider, MFT
Imaginal Ecotherapy and the Healing Power of Tarotpy: Reawakening Our Bond to Nature

09/17/2025

09/10/2025

Dreams, Tarot, and Collage: Cultivating Resilience through Creative Exploration

Sunday, October 5 10a-5p

Institute of Dreams & Tarotpy in Santa Barbara, CA

Dream Collage is an imaginative, hands-on workshop for seekers, creatives, and curious minds ready to explore the profound wisdom hidden within their dreams. Whether or not you have prior experience with dreamwork, tarot, or collage, this workshop offers an inviting and transformative space of discovery.

Learn more on my website: https://www.dreamsandtarotpy.com

All art materials included $225.00
Limited to 10 attendees
6 CE units

07/28/2025

A New Tarotpy Training Course Starting August 2nd!

For licensed mental health practitioners (LMFT’s, LCSW’s, LPCC’s, and LEP’s), the completed course offers a total of twenty-four (24) continuing education credits.

This advanced training will provide participants with techniques, skills and supervised practice to use the Tarotpy method with clients as well as for a personal growth. The Training and Certification Course is for psychotherapists, coaches, educators, healers, tarot enthusiasts and laypeople who are interested in learning the Tarotpy method for guidance and healing.

Learn more: https://instituteofdreamstarotpy.as.me/?appointmentType=75199922

07/23/2025

I'm thrilled to be a featured guest on this week's DearJames Podcast. Tune in live to join the show: Thursday, July 24, 2025 at 9am PST

JOIN Intuitive Advice Columnist, Radio-Podcast Host, Author, & Consultant DearJames® and his Featured Guest, Lauren Schneider MA, MFT, Spiritual Psychotherapist, Lecturer, Author, Trainer, Creator of Tarotpy®, an integrative approach to psychotherapy that blends tarot, image, and depth psychology and Founder of the Institute of Dreams & Tarotpy® in this INSPIRED CONNECTIONS conversation where they discuss Spiritual Psychotherapy, Lauren’s pioneering method Tarotpy®, her award-winning book Tarotpy: It’s All in the Cards – A Pathway to Inner Wisdom, Divine Guidance and Profound Healing, the Healing Power of Dreams, the Soul, and her multiple offerings that include individual consultations, workshops, board-certified continuing education trainings, and ongoing groups for both healthcare professionals and laypeople around the world.

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07/21/2025

Excited to announce that the Institute of Dreams & Tarotpy is featured in the latest issue of the Montecito Journal

Full article: https://www.montecitojournal.net/mjnewspaper/

07/17/2025

Excited to share the final installment of my series published in conjunction with Archives and Research Center. In this article, I discuss Imaginal Ecotherapy, how nature speaks through image, dream, and synchronicity.

The final issue in our special 4-part series closes with Imaginal Ecotherapy, how nature speaks through image, dream, and synchronicity. Tarotpy is a path home to ourselves, each other, and the Earth.

07/10/2025

Excited to share the third installment in this special four-part series published in conjunction with Archives and Research Center. This article takes us on a journey into the dreamscape—where Tarotpy and the unconscious converge in symbols, synchronicity, and transformation.

Part III: The third issue in this special four-part series takes use on a journey into the dreamscape—where Tarotpy and the unconscious converge in symbols, synchronicity, and transformation.

07/07/2025

With all that is going on in our personal lives, and the disturbances in our world, Tarotpy offers support and cultivates resilience. The closer we are to the Imaginal world, the more attuned we become to its intelligence and inherent balance.

Learn more: https://www.dreamsandtarotpy.com

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06/19/2025

For those that missed it, I was recently honored to be a guest writer on the OPUS Archives and Research Center Substack and I'm excited to share the first post with you.

Integrating Tarot and Psychotherapy
Part I: The first in a four-part series with guest contributor Lauren Schneider, introducing Tarotpy®—a soulful synthesis of depth psychotherapy and archetypal imagery.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-161568269

Part I: The first in a four-part series with guest contributor Lauren Schneider, introducing Tarotpy®—a soulful synthesis of depth psychotherapy and archetypal imagery.