Expressive Arts Therapy & Tarot Integration

Date: Saturday October 24, 2026
Time: 9:00am–3:30pm Pacific Time (with a 30 minute lunch break)
Location: NWCEAI Studio: 1631 15th Ave. W. Ste 305 | limited to 15 participants
Available CEs: 6
Facilitator: Courtney Mohr Taylor, PhD, LMHC, REAT
Cost: $219.00 + tax

Registration Deadline: Wednesday October 21, 2026

Participants will engage with tarot imagery as they would with any expressive arts material—through curiosity, embodiment, and creative response. The training emphasizes how tarot can help clients explore metaphor, identify personal and collective archetypes, and create new symbolic representations of their inner world. We will also explore how tarot can be woven into other expressive arts modalities, including visual art, movement, music, poetry, and therapeutic writing, to deepen insight and support integrative, trauma-informed care. This training centers ethical, culturally sensitive, and client-led use of tarot, ensuring practitioners can incorporate this modality responsibly and inclusively across diverse populations and settings.

No previous training in tarot is required. This is not a tarot card training, but rather a training on how to integrate tarot into therapy with additional expressive arts modalities.

Learning objectives

1. Participants will be able to describe the symbolic and archetypal significance of tarot imagery.
2. Participants will identify ethical and cultural considerations when integrating tarot into therapy.
3. Participants will be able to demonstrate expressive arts interventions using tarot across four modalities.
4. Participants will create a personal tarot card and accompanying written representation.
5. Participants will learn to apply tarot-informed expressive arts practices to case scenarios with children, adolescents, or adults.
6. Participants will explore and learn skills with integrating tarot in multimodal expressive arts practices.

Required Materials

• Tarot decks (multiple styles if possible)

Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute Cancellation & Refund Policy

Earning Continuing Education Credits

To receive a CE Certificate for completion of this workshop, you must officially register, attend the workshop in its entirety and complete an evaluation form after the workshop. The evaluation form is emailed to you by the following Friday of the workshop. After completing & submitting the evaluation form, a CE Certificate will be emailed to you within 5-7 business days.

Who is eligible to receive CEs?

• Nationally: Approved NBCC Provider for Mental Health Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Licensed Social Workers (you are responsible for confirming that your organization/state will accept NBCC credits.)
• New York Licensed Creative Arts Therapists (LCATs)
• Washington State School Counselor/Teacher (OSPI) Approved by the Washington State Office of Public Instruction as a “Washington State approved clock hour offering workshop.”
• If you are outside of Washington State, we advise that you check with your state licensing board to confirm that they accept NBCC Approved CEs. 

Northwest Creative and Expressive Arts Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists. #CAT-0123.

Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute (NWCEAI) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7104. Programs that do no qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute (NWCEAI) is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.