New Beginnings Core Needs Cards

New Beginnings Core Needs Cards

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

These cards offer a gentle, attachment-informed way to support reflection, psychoeducation, and therapeutic conversations with parents, caregivers, and families during the perinatal period and beyond.

What's Included

10 beautifully designed core needs cards exploring:

• Stability and Predictability
• Felt Safety and Protection
• Unconditional Acceptance and Self Worth
• Fair Limits and Boundaries
• Sense of Belonging
• Autonomy
• Self Expression and Identity
• Emotional Connection, Support and Nurture
• Spontaneity, Creativity and Play
• Competence and Self-Confidence

Plus a beautiful "Cups of Wellbeing" overview card featuring all ten needs as visual cups, providing an accessible framework for understanding wellbeing.

Each card features gentle watercolour illustrations and accessible language, making the framework approachable for both clinicians and clients.

Perfect For

• Perinatal counselling and therapy
• Attachment-focused practice
• Parent psychoeducation and reflection
• Schema therapy
• Circle of Security informed work
• Face-to-face and telehealth sessions
• Supervision and case formulation

How To Use

• Invite parents to identify which needs feel met or unmet
• Explore how unmet needs in childhood may show up in parenting
• Support caregivers to understand their child's emerging needs
• Build insight into patterns across generations
• Create a shared language for emotional needs in therapy
• Use alongside the Cups of Wellbeing assessment tool
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Designed To Work Alongside

• New Beginnings Perinatal Schema Cards
• New Beginnings Schema Mode Cards
• The full New Beginnings Core Needs Therapy Bundle

High-Quality, Ready To Use

All cards are professionally designed and ready for immediate download. Print for in-person therapy as A5 sized cards or share on screen during telehealth sessions. No preparation required.

Created by Symon Oliveri

Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, Contigo Child and Family

Designed for perinatal and family therapists wanting warm, accessible tools to explore how core emotional needs shape wellbeing across childhood, adulthood, and the perinatal period.