Institute of Dreams and Tarotpy

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.

07/14/2025

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

07/10/2025

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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06/30/2025

The Tarotpy Training and Certification course begins August 2nd! All licensed mental health practitioners (LMFT’s, LCSW’s, LPCC’s, and LEP’s) please take note that the class offers a total of twenty-four (24) continuing education credits.

More Details: https://instituteofdreamstarotpy.as.me/?appointmentType=75199922

06/24/2025

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 second post with you.

Awakening the Inner Healer: Using Tarot Imagery for Transformation
Part II: The second in our four-part series with Lauren Schneider explores how Tarotpy invites intuitive healing through image, reflection, and the language of Soul.

Read it here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-161568271

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.

05/13/2025

JOIN ME ON SATURDAY!

Integrating Tarot and Psychotherapy: A Soulful Practice for Healing and Transformation

In celebration of OPUS Archives and Research Center

Join me for an experiential presentation of Tarotpy, a groundbreaking method of Tarot therapy developed in 1983 that integrates depth psychotherapy with the evocative power of image, imagination, and synchronicity. Drawing from family systems, archetypal psychology, hypnotherapy, and dreamwork, Tarotpy is both a powerful clinical tool and a contemplative practice for insight, inspiration, and profound transformation.

In honoring its ancestral roots, we integrate the work of James Hillman, Joseph Campbell, Marion Woodman, and other luminaries of Depth Psychology as we explore how reconnecting with Soul and “aliveness” is the purpose of psychotherapy and our life journey.

Image is the language of the unconscious and of Soul; Tarotpy lays the unconscious on the table with tarot, oracle, SoulCards, and dream cards to illuminate our Soul’s code. Tarotpy is not fortune telling—it’s a sacred, alchemical process that re-enchants the therapy room and invites Soul back into our work and lives.

Whether you are a Tarot enthusiast, a healing practitioner, or know nothing about Tarot, this experiential presentation will be inspiring and deeply nourishing for anyone drawn to soulful healing work.

This two-part presentation includes:
✨ Integrating Tarot and therapy for insight and creative problem-solving
✨ Demonstrating the healing power of Synchronicity
✨ From burnout to inspiration, Tarotpy rejuvenates the therapeutic practice
✨ Participants pull cards in response to a question or concern
✨ Breakout rooms to practice image-based techniques
✨ Case studies illustrating Tarotpy’s use to navigate personal and collective loss and upheaval
✨ Tarotpy as Imaginal Ecotherapy for treating environmental/social/political trauma

* Four (4) CEs are awarded to LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs*

Workshop Details & Registration:

Integrating Tarot and Psychotherapy: A Soulful Practice for Healing and Transformation Saturday, May 17th, 2025 Join us for an experiential presentation of Tarotpy, a groundbreaking method of Tarot therapy developed in 1983 that integrates Depth Psychotherapy with the evocative power of image, imagi...

05/05/2025

Proud to be a guest writer for the OPUS Archives and Research Center's latest Substack posts. Read the entire series now and join my lecture, held in conjunction with OPUS, on Saturday, May 17th.

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.

03/31/2025

Dream Retreat Announced! May 26-30th at the DreamingArts Studio in Sante Fe, NM

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Dream Journey Into the Soul:
Exploring Dreams through Embodied, Creative, Expressive and Spiritual Dreamwork

​Connect your waking, conscious awareness to the vast universe of the unconscious, opening doors to the unknown topography of the psyche and your dreaming mind through expressive arts and imaginal ways of knowing. Join five internationally renowned dream experts, award-winning authors, psychotherapists and artists for a unique multi-faceted week of dream exploration.