Thank you for choosing us to walk with you.

The following information will help you understand many of the details regarding services provided through Blue Fire Legacy.

Our primary commitment is to provide you with quality, time-effective sessions. Below you will find various policies for your information. Please read through these, ask any questions you may have, initial each section, provide your electronic signature, and type your first and last name in the spaces as indicated at the bottom of the document.

We acknowledge our clients have a variety of belief systems, and while we may differ in opinion, it is not our intent to pressure you into assuming a particular belief structure. All services offered through Blue Fire Legacy will incorporate Christian beliefs and values into the sessions. By continuing services with Dallas Henslee and Mark Henslee, you are consenting to Christian counseling, pastoral in nature, which will include Judeo-Christian values, the use of Scripture, and prayer in addition to other therapeutic techniques. Our methods involve active listening and discussion, problem-solving, and directed activities with solution-focused methods.

We provide spiritual counseling based in prayer, led by the Holy Spirit, in alignment with The Word of God (The Holy Bible). We teach and implement spiritual principles and weapons in the power and authority of Jesus Christ to provide emotional, spiritual, and mental freedom and healing.

First and foremost, we are Christians. Additionally, we are committed to being students of the Holy Spirit, as well as, the craft of counseling. We are committed to ongoing training and continuing education. We want to understand the discoveries of research and long to be as effective as possible with our clients. Each of our clinicians have committed their lives to Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. We believe He was fully God and fully man, lived a sinless life and became a substitute for each of us on the cross, paying the price for our sin, was raised again three days later, He continues to live, and is active in the world through the person of the Holy Spirit. We believe in the sanctity of all human life. Throughout Scripture, we find God intervening when humans blow it because of selfish endeavors. When this happens, injustice and evil prevail. Such selfish agendas create trauma in individuals, races, genders, nations and certainly the unborn. Each life has immense value to God and to us. Your life matters. Your pain matters. And, your healing, recovery and redemption matter, too.

The term "Christian Counseling" has taken on meaning that is highly subjective in nature and is therefore, prone to biased interpretation. To us, it means we see you through the lens of Christ’s unconditional love, and believe that recovery is possible beyond indefinite behavior modification and management. We understand that you have your own journey with Christ and each person needs different things at different times along the way because they were created uniquely by God. It means that although our methods are rooted in Scripture and scientific research, our treatment plans emerge from the hope in Christ as our redemption. The Holy Spirit is the ultimate healer, and we apply the principles found in Scripture. Prayer changes us and it changes things in our lives; we have the privilege and responsibility of utilizing the authority God grants us in defeating the schemes of the devil. While we will listen for destructive patterns and behaviors which need to be addressed, we will not judge, preach, condemn, criticize or accuse. This is a partnership. You will be working. This is something we do with you, not to you. We will have conversations that involve Scripture, and we will pray with you. We are always willing to stop a session and pray over a particular matter at your request.

Mark Henslee offers pastoral care and consulting services. He is an ordained minister, and his prior experience as a church planter, pastor, and lay leader help him relate with his clients on an empathetic level.

Dallas Henslee holds a Master’s Degree in counseling through Colorado Christian University. She is trained in EMDR and Splankna Therapy, and specialized in Adult ADHD, Grief and Loss, and Trauma as a supervised license candidate and then as a fully credentialed Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the state of Colorado for fifteen years (2008-2023). She continues to provide pastoral counseling services as an ordained minister drawing on her clinically informed studies.

Services provided through Blue Fire Legacy by Mark Henslee and Dallas Henslee should not be considered as medical or clinical mental health care. Pastoral or spiritual counsel is provided during our in-person, telehealth, and intensive sessions. When possible, other suspected or identified mental health areas of concern will be discussed with our clients so they may engage the services of another professional to address potential diagnostic areas of concern.

Blue Fire Legacy operates as an outpatient facility specializing in spiritual and soul care. Therefore, we do not provide emergency care. In the course of treatment, should an emergency arise, you may utilize the hospital emergency room, contact the police, call 911, or use a local crisis phone line. Neither of us carries a pager, and our cell phones are only answered when we are not in meetings during daytime work hours for ministry related calls.

As a minister or family member of a minister, the fees for services through Blue Fire Legacy are waived. An appropriate fee for a 90-minute session is $200 and up depending on the services required. Therefore, we ask that you treat the session as if you were the one responsible for its cost. Our counselors are extending an exceptional gift to you. Love offerings from clients are also gratefully accepted.

An appointment is considered missed when the client has not logged into the session, or arrived, within fifteen (15) minutes of the scheduled time.

We will require that clients notify the therapist a minimum of two hours before the scheduled appointment if they are not going to be able to attend the meeting. For missed appointments without proper notice, we will require a contribution to the ministry of $50 be made before rescheduling. The therapist will have the ability to waive this penalty if they deem appropriate.

When a client misses three meetings, with or without notice, services will be terminated at the discretion of the therapist. The client may request reinstatement of services provided that they demonstrate the needed commitment to the process moving forward

Intensives differ from 90 minute sessions. This service is available only in an in-person format and is three to five days in duration. An initial consultation appointment and a refundable deposit are required to schedule an intensive. Additional information is available upon request.

Should you wish to donate to Blue Fire Legacy in appreciation of services received, you may donate electronically through our website www.bluefirelegacy.org or mail a check to PO Box 1557, Westcliffe, CO 81252. If you have submitted a deposit and would like to donate your refundable deposit, in part or in full, you may indicate on the envelope and/or form provided, otherwise, your deposit will be returned to the address previously indicated.

We offer speaking engagements, which often provides funding in the form of honorariums and book sales, permitting us to continue offering counseling services without fees. We appreciate your consideration in scheduling us to come speak with your church or organization.

It is our policy to keep written records of sessions to provide services to the optimum level. These recordings are part of your confidential file and will not be reviewed by anyone without your consent. The only exception to the previous statement regarding confidentiality is that content may be discussed in a peer review consultation or surrendered if required by law.

Our counseling services are designed to treat root causes rather than provide symptom management. Services may be offered on an as needed basis or continuously. In continuous sessions, progress will be assessed on an ongoing basis. If goals are not met within two years, termination of services will be implemented by Blue Fire Legacy unless its designee has justifiable reason to continue services past this time frame. As needed, services will continue to be provided without a time limit if there is adequate evidence of the client's investment of effort towards change.

Coaching services may continue without a defined time limit, provided that the services are being beneficial, the client is adequately invested, and the service provider has adequate availability in their schedule. Coaching services will be less frequent in nature than counseling appointments.

Confidentiality of services provided is important to us. Unless you grant us permission to do so in writing, we will neither inform anyone that you are receiving therapy, nor will we disclose the content of any session.

The only circumstance under which our professional confidentiality may be broken is if one or more of the following conditions apply:

1. If you direct us to tell someone else and you have signed a release of information statement allowing a specified person, agency or institution to exchange specific information
2. If you pose a serious physical danger to yourself or another person
3. If you disclose that you or another person has physically or sexually abused or molested a child, an incompetent, or an elderly or disabled person
4. If you disclose that a child, an incompetent, or an elderly or disabled person is suffering because of neglect
5. If there is physical violence (domestic violence)
6. If we are ordered by a court to disclose information
7. If abuse or neglect is disclosed under the conditions given above, we are mandated by law to report such information to an appropriate state agency.
8. Additionally, should we be subpoenaed to testify or produce records it will be the sole responsibility of the client to cover all costs, including but not limited to, legal representation to protect Blue Fire Legacy and its associated parties.

Please understand that while we guard our voicemail and email as carefully as possible, we live in a culture where true confidentiality cannot be guaranteed. You may use either dallas@bluefirelegacy.org or mark@bluefirelegacy.org to transmit any information you are comfortable addressing through an email platform. Also, remember that Facebook and other social media sites are a very public forum, and you forfeit your privacy by friending, liking pages, or posting while on-line.

You are free to disclose as much, or as little, information about yourself and our sessions as you choose. This applies even with your spouse except in cases of joint appointments.

As a client of Blue Fire Legacy, you will be automatically added to our e-newsletter and devotional blog database which utilizes MailChimp and comes from the email address info@bluefirelegacy.org. You may unsubscribe from either distribution group at any time you wish by utilizing the footer provided on each mailing.

By signing this document and any attachments hereto, you agree that we have disclosed sufficient information to enable you to decide to undergo or forgo any of the approaches and other services offered including continued communication about the ministry efforts of Blue Fire Legacy. You understand that your consent to the nature of our sessions is given voluntarily, without coercion, and may be withdrawn at any time in the future. You represent that you are competent and able to understand the nature and consequences of our proposed sessions. You have read and understand the above disclosure about the services offered by Blue Fire Legacy, the differing degrees of training and education obtained by our providers, you have discussed with us the nature of the services to be provided, and except in the case of gross negligence or malpractice, agree to release, indemnify, hold harmless and defend Blue Fire Legacy, its stakeholders, board, employees, representatives, and consultants from and against any and all claims of liability, of whatsoever kind or nature, which you, or your representatives, may have for any loss, damage, or injury, including without limitation, physical, emotional, mental, financial, or personal, arising out of or in connection with our services.