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Old Jan 30, 2017, 10:20 PM
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tarrot card reading is not a court mandated treatment. that said there are many different religions here in america. if a person in therapy is a person who practices or is interested in wicca religion and life style then yes it can be part of that persons therapy. just like if a christian wants to do bible reading in their therapy sessions and if a person of islamic religion wants to study the Koran as part of their alcohol treatment can do so.

I know someone who does receive stress and anxiety relief though their tarrot card readings.

the bottom line is each person has their own ways that work for them in combating those urges to self injure even if the negative behavior is drinking or doing drugs. and each person has their own things that help them over those cravings when they hit. its not up to me or anyone else in america to say one persons therapy sessions are right or wrong. I can say its not right for me but who knows if this person is using tarrot card readings to help their self over the urges/ cravings to drink thats all that really matters...

I mean I certainly would not want someone who doesnt like rowing canoes, or spelling apples and cinimon to tell me that my therapist and I cant go out on the lake rowing or that my therapist and I cant light candles during my sessions or read the bible or do a wiccan prayer, wiccan religious practice during my own therapy sessions.

the only person that can say whether there is something wrong in anyones therapy sessions is the one going to therapy and that therapists supervisors and that therapists ethics board. those of us online here its easy for us to say hey hes having an affair or no shes abusing him that therapist is breaking laws and all that stuff but the reality is we are not that treatment providers cleint, we are not that treatment provider and we are not witnessing the sessions. we only get to read what is posted and can only go according to what we would want for our own therapy sessions.

for me tarrot card reading has never been apart of my sessions but there are many things my treatment provider and I do that is not a CBT, DBT or other therapy technique but it works for me and my treatment provider and thats what matters.