HOLMES said:
when we the tarot reader no longer are doing any reading but reliterating the what the client is saying to them in a therapy manner, we are no longer tarot readers but tarot sitters or tarot listeners.
According to the above it sounds like you are advocating that Tarotists not practice in "a therapy manner" because then we will not be tarot readers.
This was one of the concerns in starting this Board. Most of us are not here to argue with those who don't like the idea of a therapeutic-style tarot consultation.
I sincerely hope we don't get sidelined into having to argue even our right to do tarot "in a therapy manner." I would hope that since many people do practice in this way, we can talk about it here. Holmes, you do not have to do tarot in a therapy manner. No one is trying to make you do so.
My understanding is to talk about what this "therapy manner" looks like both
• from the pov of a mental health professional, and
• from the pov of a tarotist (I'll avoid "reader").
We can also, I hope, discuss matters such as the use of archetypes, etc., and therapy-related theories and principles, psychological and otherwise.
ADDED: Sorry to sound so reactive.
Holmes, I don't know if you are deliberately misunderstanding a therapeutic approach or if you just don't know much about it. If you are assuming that my earlier response to your lead question, in which I gave a 3-part recommendation (off the top of my head) for starting to incorporate therapy into tarot, is the totality of a therapeutic method then I never mean to say that. You asked about ways to "start to incorporate." My suggestions were not meant as complete replacements.
If you want more suggestions from me then I suggest you read my book _21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card_ (I can't repeat the whole book here). It contains quite a few methods that might be used in a therapeutic manner (though not all methods that are possible). You'll note in my book that I include book/traditional meanings as well as meanings derived from symbols, suits, numbers, etc.—and I show ways that all these can be incorporated together.
Mary