Therapists Who Tarot Deck Prompts by Dreya Blume and Images by Rebecca Bloom

Today, I’m talking about the Therapist Who Tarot deck, created by therapist and tarot teacher Dreya Blume, with watercolor imagery by art therapist Rebecca Bloom. This is a deck that lives right at the intersection of tarot, self-inquiry, and healing work, and it has a very specific role in my collection.

My Story with This Deck

I found this deck in a very on-brand way: at a Therapists Who Tarot retreat in spring 2024, led by Dreya and Rebecca. Each morning, we dove into how to ethically and thoughtfully bring tarot into therapy sessions—how to document it, talk about it with clients, and integrate it into our clinical work. In the afternoons, we shifted into art: cutting, gluing, painting, and making our own collage tarot cards while learning about the symbolism of the deck.

It was one of those rare experiences that felt both deeply professional and deeply witchy.

By the end of the retreat, I knew I wanted a tangible way to carry that learning and that community forward, so I bought the Therapist Who Tarot deck directly from them.

This is the deck I think of as “therapist brain meets tarot brain”—in the best possible way.

Style:

The Therapists Who Tarot Deck is warm, approachable, and deliberately reflective. It doesn’t try to be mystical or intimidating. It feels like a deck made for real people having real feelings—something you’d use in a session, a journal practice, or a quiet moment when you’re trying to understand yourself a little better.

Structure:

The deck follows the familiar Rider–Waite–Smith structure, but with a couple of intentional shifts. Pentacles become Spirals, a symbol rooted in nature and growth, and Pages are renamed Daughters, while Knights, Queens, and Kings stay the same.

There’s no traditional guidebook. But beginners can still use this deck as a gentle, introspective tool rather than relying on memorized meanings. Each card invites you to interpret it through three elements:

• the artwork

• the single keyword

• and the reflection questions printed on the back

Imagery:

Everything is painted in watercolor, giving the deck a soft, fluid quality. Figures are often implied rather than detailed—shapes, silhouettes, and gestures that feel human without being literal. The color palettes vary, and each suit has a distinct border color to anchor the imagery.

What I use it for:

I reach for the Therapist Tarot Deck when I want tarot to feel like a reflective conversation rather than a strict “prediction.” It’s especially supportive when I’m doing work that’s adjacent to therapy, journaling, or emotional processing.

What I don’t use it for:

There are a few instances where this deck isn’t my first choice:

• when someone is brand new to tarot and really wants clear, traditional meanings and reversals

• when we’re doing a big, structured spread that leans heavily on classical symbolism

• when a querent wants a very mystical, archetypal, or ritual-heavy feel

• when I need detailed upright/reversed interpretations directly from a guidebook

It’s not the deck I’d hand someone who says, “I want the cards to tell me exactly what to do.” It’s more for, “I want to better understand how I’m feeling and what I might need.”

💭 Today's Tarot Pull:

From Therapists Who Tarot Deck, I pulled the Four of Wands (Reversed).

In reverse, the heart of the Four of Wands asks us to consider where support, stability, and celebration live in our lives—and where we might be blocking ourselves from fully stepping into them.

Reflective prompts on this card:

• Is there a community I miss, or one I’m afraid to fully show up in?

• Who feels like “home” to me right now? How can I honor that?

• Is there a milestone, shift, or small victory I haven’t allowed myself to celebrate yet? Why?

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the images of the cards I pull for each episode.
Well, welcome to season 19, where I'm talking all about
different decks and how to use them.
If you haven't listened to my other seasons yet, you can check
those out. In Season 1 I talked to Tarot
Basics where I do my 2025 five card tarot spread if you want to
listen to that. Season 4 I talked to tarot and

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Pop culture which was super fun.Season 5 I talked general tarot
spreads. In season 17 I talked autumn
tarot spreads if. You are looking for some
spreads. There and I just.
Wrapped up season. 18 on color. Magic, which is all about.
Color correspondences with days of the week and color magic in
general. So like I said, now we are on to

(02:53):
season 19 where I'm talking all about different decks and how to
use them. And today I'm talking about the
therapist who tarot deck. So what style of deck is this?
This is a tarot deck. Like I said, where did I get the
deck? I got it.
I attended a therapist who tarotretreat in the spring of 2024
like late spring I think may puton by Drea Bloom and Rebecca

(03:19):
Bloom, both therapists and they created this deck together.
So I attended that retreat, which is very cool and then.
As a way. To support them and sort of get
some of their work as well and support them in that way.
I bought this deck from them. You can buy it on Etsy, and like

(03:40):
I said, they're both therapists,so Drea.
Bloom. Did the prompts and the images
are watercolor painted by Rebecca Bloom and on the front
of the deck it says are on the box it says ask a question, pull
a card, I'll read. A little bit of the back because
I think it's interesting it saysmost.
Folks, they say they are not intuitive or are not sure how to

(04:00):
trust which choices are right for them.
A single card pull from a tarot deck offers a way to ground into
your intuition, even in the most.
Stressful moments inspired. By the 20 tarot decks I own, I
painted this deck hoping that the images would allow you to
feel connected to your own. Sense of self.
Says the 78 cards have been usedfor hundreds of years using the

(04:21):
1909 Ryder Waite Smith deck and a process painting style.
This deck reflects on the appealof Tarot for everyday use or a
support. In difficult times, so.
Drea Bloom, the one who wrote the.
Like. Wrote the content for it is a
psychotherapist, author, and educator.
They've been immersed in the world of tarot since 2004,
loving every minute of it. They also do a ton of tarot

(04:45):
activity books. Tarot continuing education.
Classes for therapists. Lots of different.
Things so. If this is intriguing to you,
definitely check them out. You can check them out at Drea
bloom.com or Drea bloomcounseling.com.
And Rebecca Bloom is a licensed mental health counselor and a
board certified art therapist working with adults with complex
post traumatic stress disorder in South Seattle, and they can

(05:08):
be found at. Bloom counseling dot.
Com So yeah, that's sort of themand where I got this.
So I spent a. Lovely, I think.
Five days with these folks in the morning we would learn about
how to use tarot in a mental health contacts as a therapist,
like bring it into therapy sessions, how to.

(05:29):
Document. It in your clinical notes how to
advertise that you are that you do this with clients how to get.
You know, add. It to your paperwork so clients
are aware that this is a part ofthe work that you do and then in
the afternoon Rebecca would showus art and some of the images
she's created and she would justsort of like tell us about tarot

(05:53):
and the different cards as we collage our own.
Tarot cards which. Is super fun so I love doing
that and I've held the tarot meet ups in order to continue
that practice of doing the collage of creating your own
tarot cards so that's the thing I.

(06:14):
Learned from them. And it was very cool to do and
I. Think it.
Allows you to interact with the tarot in a different way.
So you can follow Rebecca Bloom at our text on Instagram.
And like I said, I'll have the link, so you can buy this deck
if you're interested. Yeah, So that's where I got it.

(06:37):
So the changes from the writer. Wait, Smith.
So instead of like a traditionaltarot deck where all the backs
of the cards look the same, on this deck you have, you know,
the traditional images on one side with the border and they
are watercolor done. So it's a different style than
acrylic or digital art. A.

(06:59):
Little. More, yeah, literally watery or
sort of like smudged or subtle in a lot of ways.
And then on the back of each card there are sort of like.
Reflection questions. So that is different than a
traditional tarot deck and there's no guide book.
For this deck. So.
Of course, this does mean that you.
Have to know, I guess. In my opinion, it's.

(07:22):
Helpful to know a bit of the. Normal tarot structure.
Because there isn't a deck. Guidebook, it does have a so
like on top here I have the Queen of Swords and it does have
a a word underneath each card that says so that for this one,
it's creativity. It has the image and then on the
back it says what are you tryingto avoid?
What are you craving and how have you been?

(07:43):
Coping with stress. So that is sort of how these
cards work. It's kind of cool they can be.
Used. In kind of like.
A different. Context, because of course you
can shuffle them and have the pictures up.
And then look. At the reflection questions on
the back or you can kind of shuffle.
Them like normal and then you get, you know you.

(08:05):
Pull your image and then you. See.
Kind of, you know. The back the.
Questions on the back give you an idea of you know what the
card is about, but that is different.
Obviously from a. Writer wait.
Smith. Dak.
I think the. Other things are they use
spirals instead of pentacles. Spirals are one of the.

(08:29):
More ancient depictions of pentacles or coins and because
they are like occur in. Nature and so they use spirals
and. I'm trying to remember they.
Call instead of and of course I have to.

(08:49):
Figure this out. So we have King daughter.
Sorry, I'm trying to some of thecourt cards.
So like the. Page Night King.
Queen, the King. And Queen, I believe are the.

(09:10):
Same but they use daughter. I'm trying to.
Remember, if that's for the. Page or for the knight.
Justice 10A S Queen. So they have queen, they have
king. You get some.

(09:32):
Tarot ASMR here. Knight OK, so daughter is the.
Page equivalent. So that is 1 change.
They change all of the. Pages to daughter, Daughter of
swords, daughter of spirals, Daughter of wands, daughter of
cups. And I believe that's it.
So spirals instead of pentacles or coins.

(09:55):
And daughter instead of page. Yeah.
And then of course, like the imagery, like I said, it is done
in. Watercolor, which is.
Pretty different. From the traditional Rider Waite
Smith deck and a lot of my decksI would say are either.
Kind of like. Well, now I'm trying to.

(10:18):
Think. Yeah, I don't think I.
Have any others that are watercolor?
I guess a lot are done in acrylic also, like oil.
Paints. And I did learn while talking to
or. Learning from Rebecca Bloom, who
did the imagery for this while we were at the retreat, that it
makes sense. But I've never thought about
before that. Of course, when you create a
tarot duck traditionally for an image.

(10:40):
So like she created, right thesewatercolors?
And then they're sort of like scanned and printed.
So when you actually make the card as.
Like an artist, you make it large, like much larger than a
tarot card. And then because you want the.
Quality to look, really. Good when it's shrunk down.

(11:01):
Yeah, that you do it as. Like a large canvas.
So that's an interesting thing to think about, I guess.
Maybe not if you're doing like digital art.
I don't know if that's. Still true, but that was
something that I. Hadn't really.
Thought about before of like, yeah, I guess it makes sense
that someone's not like paintingtiny, tiny images and that
they're doing it maybe on a traditionally.

(11:21):
Quite large canvas. And then it's sort of.
Yeah, I guess. Scanned and then printed into a.
Deck right to. Have everything be the same
size. So like I said, the imagery.
Is watercolor. It's a lot like they're.

(11:41):
Sort of like. Humanoid shapes.
We get some. Faces.
But a lot of the times, like they're pretty, I was going to
say subtle. That's not totally true.
Some of them look a lot more like.
Stick figures. And some look more like.
There's a vague shape of a human.

(12:03):
There's lots of. Different colors in here.
They do have the different suitsto have different border.
Colors so like spirals are green, cups are blue, the Major
Arcana cards have a black borderthe.
Swords are orange and the wands are red, so there is like
cohesion throughout. That.

(12:25):
What do I? Like.
To use that for. So it does sort of use their
traditional imagery, so. It can be.
Good for that. It's fun to use it with folks
that. Maybe already have?
Some ideas about? Tarot or.
Maybe in a more like therapeuticcontext or where?
I think the. Reflection questions.

(12:46):
Are going to be helpful like. I see all.
Of my clients virtually via telehealth so on my.
Computer. But this is a deck that it would
be. Cool to use.
In person with folks either if you are a therapist, this is the
thing you could use with folks there where you can look at the.
Image right and get an idea fromthere and then also you.

(13:07):
Could kind of. Explore the questions on the
back. It could also be used.
For as like journaling questionsso.
There actually is kind of like a.
Single card in here that is a guide for the deck.
It says ask a question, pull a card, reflect on what you see in
the. Image does.
The word have a meaning for you.So like 2 of swords says choice

(13:27):
then it says find that card in your favorite book on tarot For
more information. So right if you do.
Have books? On tarot or other decks.
Right, you can go to that. Guide book so you could look for
this. One up the.
Two of Swords, it says. Tell a friend you got that card
journal or make your own versionof that card in 2D or 3D.
Who do you want with? You on your journey, Who Are you

(13:49):
ready to know? Who have you avoided that you
were ready to befriend? So that's.
Sort of the the guide for this deck here.
Anything I. Wouldn't use it.
For. Yeah, I guess if folks maybe
don't know the sort of. Traditional tarot.
Meanings or like if you don't. Have any reference books or

(14:11):
don't? Want to like search?
It on the Internet like. Obviously, like it's doesn't
give you like it doesn't really give you a description of the.
Card so. For maybe folks that want a more
literal interpretation or don't have the background of tarot.
Like that would be helpful. Because you just.

(14:31):
You don't get. A ton from these cards, unless
like I said, you kind of already.
Know or you're looking for more of like reflection.
Questions like are on the back. I'm trying to think what else I
wouldn't use it for I guess. I.
Tried to use it in my color magic season because I was
trying to use all of my different ducks and it was kind

(14:52):
of hard. Because actually, it's quite.
Colorful. Like very.
Few of the cards have a single color on them.
So that was just kind of interesting to observe.
There are definitely like themeslike I said, with the suits
having different. Colors and I did use that a.
Couple times, but I would say. Other ducks have.

(15:14):
I don't know a lot more of like a.
A color. Scheme to them so.
If that was important to you or what?
Else, I guess. Yeah, like pretty much all the
cards in here. Depict.
People of like various like I said.
To various degrees. Like I guess the moon card here

(15:36):
doesn't have a person on it, butthey don't usually the.
Lovers card has a snake, the Five of Swords.
Has like 5 swords in a in a. Pentagram.
Shape, but most of them have people.
So if folks. Were like not wanting that.
Or. Yeah, are wanting like a

(15:57):
different sort of. Imagery or style?
Or wanted a bit maybe of like a distance between like
themselves? And the card.
Maybe a different deck that again has like.
Animals or plants or other interpretations of the cards
would be. Helpful, but yeah.
I I like. It it it is a bit more of.

(16:19):
Like a square card, it's it's. Larger than maybe like a
traditional? I guess it's wider than a.
Traditional tarot deck. So it can be a bit.
Hard to shuffle it comes. In a box and this is my one.
Box. That is faring pretty roughly.
I should get a like bag for thisdeck because the deck is still

(16:41):
holding up very well, but my boxhas fully like unglued itself at
the bottom and is going to RIP into.
Pieces fairly soon. And I just got this deck in like
spring of 2024 so it's not superold.
I do like throw my deck boxes like in my bag and I take them a

(17:02):
lot of places since I. Do a lot of terror related stuff
so. You know, if you keep it at home
and you keep it pretty nice, I could probably won't do that,
but that is 1. I guess sort of personal
downside for this deck. I like it a lot and the deck
itself is on like very. Thick.
I guess I kind of like. Card stock is.
What I was going to say. But it.
Has like a laminated aspect to it and it's very like matte

(17:29):
actually it's not like shiny, but that's the only that's my
only downside. For this deck.
And yeah, that just that I wouldn't necessarily use it with
folks that are wanting like a traditional.
Tarot. Reading but then maybe like want
that deck guidebook description or reversals because that's the
other thing like unless you knowthe.
Cards. If you pull it in reverse.

(17:51):
It'd be pretty hard to read a. Reversal without really knowing
what it is or like how do you read a reflection question in
reverse? Like is that so?
It doesn't lend well to reversals perhaps.
So again, this is. The therapist who tarot deck
prompts. By Drea.
Bloom. Images by Rebecca Bloom and I'll
link to both of their web pages and also where you can buy the
deck. So let's go.

(18:11):
Ahead and shuffle. And see what message the deck
has for us today. Oops.
Let me take out the. Guide card.
One more shuffle. Okay, what?

(18:34):
Message does this deck have? For us today.
All right, well, I pulled the four of wands in reverse.
So it says. Marriage.
And it sort of has two people I would say with.
Kind of like. A interesting.
Thing in between them that was like swirly.
I don't know, it's kind of hard to explain.
These cards there are like. Some.

(18:55):
People in the background we see kind of like.
Four other human shapes. In the background and then we
see there's like. 4 pillars. And again, like, those are the
wands depicted here. And it says marriage.
Is the word associated with it. So on the back it says where do
you? Find community.
Which of your friendships? Do you most value and what

(19:15):
should you be celebrating? Yeah.
So that's kind of what you get. From it.
So like I said, I pulled it in reverse but.
If we're just going off this card, it's kind of hard to know.
What that might be saying so. Maybe you're having challenges.
Finding community. Maybe there's like aspects of
friendships. That you do.

(19:36):
Value. And other parts that feel more
challenging right now. Or perhaps, again, like there's
something you should be. Celebrating.
But it feels like you're not allowing yourself.
To do that. Perhaps.
If we think about a reversal, soyeah, it sounds like we're
focusing on community, friendships and celebration.

(19:56):
So right, like coming together in this sort of.
Metaphorical marriage. With this card.
All right, well, thanks for joining me today on Everyday
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