New Beginnings Core Needs Cards

A beautifully illustrated therapy card set designed to explore the ten core emotional needs that support wellbeing across the lifespan.

Grounded in attachment, developmental, and schema-informed practice, these cards provide a gentle and accessible way to support reflection, psychoeducation, and therapeutic conversations with parents, caregivers, families, and adults.

What's Included

• 11 beautifully illustrated therapeutic cards exploring the 10 core emotional needs within the New Beginnings Core Needs Approach.
• A Cups of Wellbeing overview card featuring all ten needs as visual cups, offering a simple and engaging framework for understanding emotional wellbeing.

Each card combines gentle watercolour imagery with accessible language, making complex concepts easy to understand and apply in therapeutic conversations.

Perfect For

• Perinatal counselling and therapy
• Attachment-informed practice
• Parent psychoeducation and reflection
• Schema therapy
• Group programs
• Face-to-face and telehealth sessions
• Supervision and case formulation

How To Use

• Invite parents to identify which needs feel full and which feel depleted.
• Explore how unmet needs from childhood may influence current relationships and parenting experiences.
• Support caregivers to understand and respond to their child's emotional needs.
• Build awareness of patterns that may be passed across generations.
• Create a shared language for discussing emotional wellbeing in therapy.
• Use alongside the Cups of Wellbeing assessment and reflection process.

Designed To Work Alongside

• New Beginnings Perinatal Schema Cards
• New Beginnings Schema Reflection (Modes and Parts) Cards
• Perinatal Journeys Reflection Cards

High-Quality, Ready To Use

All cards are professionally designed and available as an instant digital download.

Included are:

• A5 therapy cards for printing and in-person use
• A4 PDF versions for screen sharing during telehealth sessions

Created by Symon Oliveri

Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, Contigo Child and Family