My Approach
My goal in our work together is for you to leave our session with a sense of clarity, comfort, direction, and peace of mind. My readings are primarily psychospiritual in nature- they serve to uncover and understand your motivations, drives, hidden gifts and hurts, patterns and ways of being. While our sessions aren’t ‘predictive’ in that I believe we have agency over our Destiny, Tarot is divination and a way to ‘see the unseen’- we can get a clearer picture of what kind of future you are heading towards as a result of your past and present actions and external circumstances. In doing so, you can be empowered to make conscious and informed choices in order to navigate your reality more skillfully and bring forward the life you want.
As a reader and healer, I love nothing more than seeing that ‘aha!’ moment when things start to crystallize, missing pieces fall together, and when obstacles that seemed insurmountable can now seem achievable or even beneficial to our growth. I incorporate energy work, specifically the Emotional Freedom Technique (otherwise known as ‘tapping’) to help us attune to one another, emotionally coregulate, release stagnant and painful energy and programming, as well as to create affirmations that will align you with your highest potential. All of my readings are rituals unto themselves.
While our work together is not therapy, it is a healing modality, one that requires willingness and deep reflection by both of us: me, as a reader, and you, as a querent. It is a process that is collaborative, creative, vulnerable, and interactive. As such, I am fully committed to providing a safe environment that is supportive and loving—one in which you feel empowered and honored as the Divine being you truly are.
Guiding Principles
Self Determination
You—your Spirit, your highest Self—are what determines your highest good. In our work together, I will ask for the messages that you need to hear most right now for your highest good. Self-determination and personal sovereignty are integral to my work and ethics. You decide your future. You are the expert on your own life.
Trauma Sensitivity
The messages that come through in readings can be very direct. I operate from a trauma-informed, trauma-sensitive perspective. I recognize that we all hold trauma of various forms and that it can manifest in different ways. I am committed to holding space for you, to honoring your boundaries, and to seeing you fully. While our work together is not mental health therapy, my education and background as a therapist and social worker inform the work I do with my clients. I will not push you any further than you are willing to go, will honor your verbal and non verbal cues, and, if a trauma response is activated, we can work together to co-regulate and down-regulate your nervous system.
Privacy
Our work together is completely confidential. I respect the privacy and autonomy of all parties: while I will do readings around relationships, I will not do a reading solely on a third party as an ethical boundary.
Anti-Oppression
My worldview is shaped from my experience. I recognize and acknowledge that my external identity informs how I move through the world and how the world responds to me, and have, as a direct result, been afforded certain privileges. I also recognize that we all have our own struggles and some of them are not visible to the naked eye. I am committed to the dismantling of any and all forms of oppression, those that are external and those that I’ve internalized or benefited from. As above, so below, as within, so without.
Disclaimer
Sacred Spaces Tarot is not a clinical offering and is not to be used as a substitute for medical, mental health, or legal services. This work does not fall under the purview of my professional licensure, and in working with me in this capacity you release me of any liability. New York state requires that Tarot services be advertised as for entertainment purposes only. If you are seeking clinical therapy please visit me here.
portrait photography by Lacey Browne.