HOW WE WORK WITH YOU

We conduct face-to-face counselling sessions in Vernon, B.C., and we also offer
online or telephone consultation. If you are unable to come in to see us easily,
the most efficient way of working is for you to lay out in a detailed e-mail
message whatever you wish to say about what is troubling you, what your basic
spiritual orientation is, and how the concern presents itself. We use this to begin
to form an idea about the initial direction for counseling to take. Then, we follow
this up with a minimum one-hour intake appointment by long distance call.
Subsequent follow-up can be done either through e-mails, phone calls or, of
course, personal visits.

We approach spiritual counselling from an holistic perspective -- body, soul,
emotions are all bound up together -- and whether we recommend a more
directly physical (e.g., manual therapy, naturopathy, diet, homeopathy, etc.),
emotional (e.g., emotional release/management, therapeutic dialogue, new
attitudes to old behaviours, etc.) or spiritual (e.g., prayer, meditation, yoga
therapy, etc.) approach (or combination of approaches) to healing depends
upon what presents itself through our initial, and ongoing, evaluation.

For more specialized attention (e.g., Traditional Chinese Medicine, herbology,
allopathy, etc.) we make specific recommendation to see experts in other fields.

We charge $100/hr, figured by 15-min/$25 increments; the initial evaluation and
first visit is a minimum of $125, since we undertake preparatory work. Generous
to a fault, and more importantly to encourage an ongoing and open dialogue
with our clients, we usually do not charge for very brief subsequent e-mails that
are more in the nature of a clarification than a consultation. (However, if part of
an individual's counseling program involves daily or frequent consultation, the
time we spend doing this is aggregated and billed periodically.)

Typically, there is no predictable, prescribed number of sessions. Our
experience ranges from single-visit effectiveness (sometimes just one insight
can enable a client to connect the dots and make the necessary changes) to
lengthy and developing, many-faceted therapeutic relationships.

If you wish to begin working with us, please call 250-549-3278 or contact us at
sacredbody@shaw.ca
Sacred Body Spiritual Counseling