Alicia Joel

Support Coordinator & Guide
She/Her, They/them

Alicia, also known as Keera, is a certified cuddle therapist, registered trauma-conscious yoga guide, body and energy worker, and Sacred Counsel Guide who runs her body/mind/soul care business BeHeld. Recently, she also became the Support Coordinator for Indwelling.

Alicia received her bachelor’s in psychology in 2008, obtained her Reiki I and II attunements in the early 2010s, earned her cuddle therapy certification through Cuddlist in 2019, completed Svalja Whole Being’s yoga teacher training in 2022, and attended Indwelling’s first Sacred Counsel Guide Apprenticeship Program in 2024.

She ran a successful business from 2012 to 2022 with multiple employees before she fully shifted her attention to holistic care. She works within LGBTQIA+, ENM, unconventional, and neurodivergent communities and loves to provide safer spaces for those in alternative lifestyles.

Alicia also leads regular gatherings for non-normative folks where they can freely be themselves without masks. She's passionate about relationships, sensuality, kink, the interplay of sex, shame, and religion, and how to build deep and meaningful connections and survive combative/emotionally abusive people.

In her non-working life, Alicia likes to visit her favorite trees, stroll around with her overly enthusiastic Aussie/heeler mix, hoard bean bag chairs and fuzzy blankets, devour sushi, and engage in rambling conversations about Big Things with friends.