What I Needed Card Deck
The What I Needed Card Deck is a gentle, reflective tool for helping children, teens, and adults explore the care, support, protection, understanding, connection, and reassurance they may have needed in the past—or may still need today. Through simple, expressive illustrations of being comforted, welcomed, listened to, supported, given space, offered help, and cared for, the cards invite people to notice what feels familiar and give language to needs that can sometimes be difficult to express. The deck can be used in therapy or for personal reflection, allowing each person to choose a card that represents what they needed, what they longed for, or what feels important in the present moment. There is no right way to use the cards, you can point, sort, move, skip, hide, or set cards aside as you gently explore what your experience may have been asking for.
Course•By Jackie Flynn, EdS, LMHC-S, RPT