BeHeld Sacred Counsel Informed Consent

These are the details of what you can expect from me as your guide and what I’ll expect from you as my client.

BeHeld: To be both dearly held and deeply seen.

What is Sacred Counsel:

Sacred Counsel is a healing modality that connects people with their subconscious, bodies, others, culture, sexuality, and nature. It’s a co-creation where the guide walks side by side with the client through their dark and unknown parts to find their inner innate ability to heal, shed that which does not serve them, and connect deeply with All. This is done with a holistic, client-centered, trauma-informed approach that involves work with the body, depth psychology, and spiritual and earth-based practices.

Beliefs of Sacred Counsel:

Our bodies and minds are intrinsically joined and inseparable.
Trauma embeds itself in our bodies, and working with trauma means working with our bodies.
We are all capable of holistically healing ourselves.
Our symptoms point us toward ways of healing.
Valid ways of healing include work with dreams, myths, the body, artwork, and metaphors.
Everyone deserves healing and wholeness with ourselves, others, our souls, and all of nature.

Things to Know:

While I have a BS in psychology and trauma-conscious certifications through yoga teacher training and cuddle therapy training, and I will receive a Sacred Counsel Guide certificate in November, 2024, I work outside the medical model and am not a licensed psychotherapist or counselor.

My job is not to pathologize or assess mental health conditions in a traditional way but to walk by your side as we uncover the secrets in your psyche, shed old layers of trauma, and find healing and wholeness. You are the expert of yourself, and I support you in finding that self, give a non-judgmental, accepting place to process, and offer various practices to dive deep and heal.

What You May Experience:

While I will do everything in my power to provide a safe enough space, Sacred Counsel can be uncomfortable. We often dig around in places that our psyche has hidden and protected because it can feel painful to look at or prod. Various feelings may come up such as worry, shame, boredom, panic, anger, and more. It can be like addressing a festering wound, painful but ultimately healing as we tenderly dredge up infected areas and clean them out so they can properly heal.

Because we are always changing, Sacred Counsel can feel different each time. We may feel as if we take one step forward and a couple steps back while other times we leap forward ten steps. Our work can impact all aspects of life to some degree or another including our relationships with our loved ones, culture, the Earth, our bodies, and all the parts of ourselves.

To best support yourself, please make it a practice to tune into yourself and listen to what your bodymind needs on a daily basis. Also, know that healing is a lifelong thing. Patience and self-compassion can help us deal with the fluctuations and time it takes to see the changes we want.

Notes:

Sessions last 1 hour and cost $150 per session. If cost is a concern, please inquire about my sliding scale or group session options. I don’t take insurance, but I take Venmo (@keerajoel), CashApp(@keerajoel), Paypal (hello@keerajoel.com), checks written out to BeHeld, payment through this site, or preferably cash at the start of the session or beforehand.

You can book online at keerajoel.com/book-online. You’ll receive a confirmation email as well as a reminder email the day before.

If you need to cancel, please let me know as soon as possible. I charge a $100 cancellation/no show fee if you cancel within 24 hours from the session.

Please arrive on time. The last few minutes of the session may be used to set up another session or go over any pertinent details.

Unless I think you are likely to hurt yourself or others, sessions are 100% confidential. To protect that confidentiality, if I run into you out in the wild, I'll follow your lead. If you don't engage, I'll move along as if we don't know each other. If you come up and say hi, I'll be happy to say hi back and won't declare how I know you to anyone you may be with unless you bring it up first.

For communication, please reach out to me via text (218.409.6010) or email (hello@keerajoel.com).

My office is at 902 E 1st St, Duluth, MN 55805 in the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum on the first level. Please use the left most side door off 9th ave, the one closest to 1st St, and come to the big room between the stairs.

There is metered parking from 8:00 AM -5:30 PM on the street, but there may be a spot or two of unpaved, free parking directly behind the building above the alley. After 5:00 PM, the front row of the Gitchi Gammi Club tends to be open and free if no special events are going on.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. I look forward to working with you!