How to play psychological counseling OH cards

The core of the OH card gameplay in the psychological counseling scene has never been "telling fortunes from cards", but relies on the image projection of the cards to help clients bypass psychological defenses and express true thoughts that they usually dare not, are unwilling to, or are not aware of at all. There is no absolutely unified standard process. As long as it does not deviate from the principle of "taking the feelings of the client as the only core", it will not go astray.

This was the case with a third-year client I just received last week. She had been suffering from insomnia for almost half a month. She said she was inexplicably anxious. When asked what she was worried about, she couldn't tell her. I didn't ask for details. I just took the OH card and asked her to randomly pick three cards to represent her recent state. The first one she turned over was a child huddled in a cabinet, the second one was several faces facing her, and the third one was an open grassland. She stared at the first card for half a minute and suddenly burst into tears. She said that she had signed up for the college's speech contest and originally wanted to give it a try, but her roommate accidentally said that she "didn't dare to go on stage". She was particularly afraid of being laughed at if she did not perform well. She was too embarrassed to say these words to her parents and friends before, fearing that "this little thing is worth worrying about", so she said it to a lifeless card instead.

Of course, there are now a lot of controversies about the gameplay of OH cards. Some organizations on the market have exaggerated it, saying that it can predict the future, predict marriage, and even relate past and present lives. This is something that the industry has always clearly resisted. In essence, it is using information gaps to cut leeks.； There are also mistakes that many novice counselors who have just entered the industry often make in interpreting cards with rigid theories. For example, when they see a cliff on the card, they conclude that the client has death anxiety. When they see a character standing alone, they say that the other person lacks love. They completely ignore the feelings of the client. On the contrary, it will cause unnecessary psychological implications to the client, which violates the original intention of using OH cards.

In fact, using OH cards in consultation is not so fancy. Just explain the rules clearly to the visitor at the beginning - "There is no standard answer to this card. Whatever you see and think about is correct. You don't have to deliberately fit it into the picture. Even if you think this card looks like the hot pot you had yesterday." It doesn't matter." Then just choose cards based on the goals of the consultation. If you want to explore intimate relationships, you can draw three cards representing yourself, your partner, and the current relationship status. If you want to sort out emotional stucks, you can draw two cards corresponding to "current feelings" and "reasons behind feelings." Use whatever is convenient for you.

To put it bluntly, the OH card is more like an "emotional projector" with its own soft light. It does not have any preset meaning. It just clearly projects the vague and ungraspable thoughts in your subconscious onto the paper. Everything you see is essentially the projection of your own inner thoughts. If you want to play it privately, you don't have to have a consultant present. When you are confused and confused recently, just draw a card and just write down the first thought that comes to mind when you see this card in a notebook. Don't worry about whether the logic is fluent or not. Just write down a lot of awkward points and you will understand. The only thing you have to pay attention to is not to label yourself blindly. Drawing a picture of rain and feeling that you are going to be unlucky recently is completely unnecessary.