George Bertelstein Counseling

I have immense gratitude and respect for George and for the guidance, care, and healing he has offered me and my family. He beautifully facilitated the wedding ceremony for my wife and I and offered us invaluable counsel in the months leading up to and after our marriage. He has supported my wife and I individually and as a couple as we have navigated marriage and family and we both owe so much to his support. He has an incredible ability to guide people to a place of joy and prayer in their life and help that to integrate as a new way of being. He has lived a full life and is still living it and it shows, he is the real deal and I whole heartedly recommend his counsel for any individuals or couples seeking support.

In addition to his immense wisdom, insight and gifts as a medicine man and spiritual leader, George offers incredibly clear, simple and powerful counseling.
He can see what’s going on without judgment and offer a very clear path to finding your joy. If you like clear, simple and direct guidance and if you want to be truly happy, you’d be hard pressed to find a better guide.
I have had the privilege of witnessing George as a healer, counselor and guide and have immense respect for his perspectives and methods. I know he has helped hundreds, if not thousands of humans to have more joy in their lives, including me. I was already a pretty joyful person, but now it feels absolutely impervious to the ups and downs life throws at me. If you desire more joy, that is his medicine and I recommend it be yours too.

Go see George if you are serious about healing, and about it being, actually, pretty easy and uncomplicated. Be prepared to love yourself a whole lot more. This is a man who has been there and back, for real. He knows what he’s talking about, so you can believe him. Plus, he talks in a way that you can hear… because it’s coming from such a place of love and compassion. Plus, he’s brilliant. Seriously.

If you’re considering doing a session with George, my advice is this: Don’t wait! It’s not worth suffering for one more day about whatever is going on for you when a priceless resource like George is available. I just had a session with him where I was reminded of this. I was really struggling on my way in, and an hour later, feeling calm and clear. I don’t know if I’ll ever need to have another session again, because he got right to the heart of the matter and left me empowered and motivated to follow my own heart. But I probably will return, just because I can. It is a gift and a privilege to be in his presence. Thank you George, for the medicine you bring. It truly feels like a miracle.

To have the opportunity to sit with George, to be in counsel with him is beyond psychotherapy or spiritual counseling, its similar but different, for me it is to sit with a medicine man. To sit with a healer, a compassionate, strong and clear human being who is loving, caring and uncompromising.
If you are reading this review, you owe it to yourself to sit with George and experience for yourself the gift of wisdom, love and strength. Just do it and then write your own review!

George is amazing to say the least! With each visit my fiancé and I reach a greater understanding of one another and are able to communicate with open minds and hearts. George creates and atmosphere of humility, peace, understanding and love. I would highly recommend him to anyone who has the desire to be the best person and mate they could possibly be! He is truly gifted and is always transparent, honest and uplifting.
I just wanted to say thank you for putting things into perspective and bringing us back to what matters… LOVE! We are very blessed and fortunate to have met you. I really appreciate you helping us to love one another! It means more to me then you will ever know.
Again, thank you!

Knowing George has changed me in that BIG way you want your life to go. I have undergone many life changes within his care and have learned the very real power of love and ability to invite even more love into my life. There is nothing flakey, false, or wishy washy about George. He is solid wise ground to receive excellent council from. Moreover, he is an outstanding human being — no power trip about him which opens up this door to healing and becoming your full potential in the kindest way possible.
I could go on raving about George but alas I will keep it as above. If you have come this far to seek out a counselor then feel blessed that your intuition has lead you here (on Unilocal) to make a decision. Best to you on that journey!

George’s wisdom is the truth of the soul reflected back with compassion and in a very straight forward and clear way. Any time spent with this man will result in seeing oneself more clearly and feeling much more solid in one’s own capacity to make good choices, heal and grow. As a result of my relationship with George, I have manifested more happiness for myself and feel much more confident in how I exist, authentically, in the world (and this is the work I help others with, so I’m pretty scrutinizing about counseling and «coaching» offered by others). I can’t recommend George more highly.

I have recommended George to so many of my friends. I have sat with him only a few times, but I always have received so much from his simple, solid, wise and compassionate council. I feel like it is a powerful re-​set that allows me to turn my concerns around and remember what I value in the same situations I was complaining about. I have seen him with my partner and alone, and like a soul massage, I feel like the act of sitting with him offers me so much release and renewal. What I took away from my last session has lasted for months.
More over, he is so personable and accessible. I feel like he is true friend and ally.
I am so glad for the time I’ve spent in his presence.

Talk about efficient healing. George is gifted. I’ve been to other therapists and left feeling utter despair. I personally don’t believe one has to dig up an entire garden to get at a few weeds. George is honest with many simple truths to help illuminate and give clarity. If that’s the kind of help you’re looking for, then George is your guy. Bön Courage!

There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think of something completely loving and amazing that George has said to me. He is so much more than a counselor in that he always teaches from his heart and I feel held by his teachings even when I am not in his presence.
In the past I have seen therapists that have fueled the fire of my pain instead of helping me let go. George is not interested in encouraging me to hold on to old «stories» about my life that portray me as a victim or as someone who deserves to sit in my own misery or blame others for my actions. Instead he allows me to have all of my feelings and then helps me find the truth inside myself. The truth that has always been there. He helps me find my connection to gratitude for ALL of my life. For every horrible thing that has gone down. I realize with the help of George that all of those things are what have made me who I am today. All of those things led me to where I am right now and I am grateful for my life above everything.

George has helped me heal up my life and the lives of my entire ancestry and has supported me in learning how to truly forgive. This is HUGE! This means that my children and my children’s children and my children’s children’s children will have a better life. The cycle has been broken.
George has taught me to make a simple intention for myself and to love myself unconditionally.
George has taught me how to love even the most challenging people to love in my life.
George has helped me rule my actions by the desires in my heart not my head.
I love my LIFE! I love that my life’s path lead me to George. I know our meeting wasn’t by chance but I feel so lucky that we met. I have been truly blessed with the best teacher.
If you are ready to let go of the things in your life that aren’t working for you then GO SEE THIS MAN!

I cannot recommend George’s council enough. He has helped me through multiple difficult circumstances and hard times in my life. George embodies two very valuable qualities that work hand in hand: one is great compassion, which is tangible and helps one to feel safe in his presence and know you are in good hands. The other is clear insight, with a birds eye view like an eagle. Any time I’ve ever come to him feeling overwhelmed or confused, he has always helped me to see my life and circumstances in a new way and a greater context, leaving me with a greater sense of peace, purpose and joy.
I highly recommend George’s practice.

Working with George has forever changed my life. He is a true sage and offers so much wisdom. I am always amazed at the magnitude of this man’s guidance and ability to stay open to the truth. George is a man you can trust your life with. He is a man you can get vulnerable with. He is a man that you can heal with and more. Through George’s counsel, I have been able to go deep inside and ask myself very important questions and get answers. I am so much more connected to myself and my intentions.
I thank George everyday for being the special healer he is. He is helping our community in a really good way. George comes so highly recommended that I can absolutely guarantee that your life will be changed by working with this man.

Dear Relative,
During the years I saw George for counseling, he messed up all my plans for hating my own guts, feeling so sorry for myself, and being a total brat. He told me big fat lies about who I really am and what I might really want to do with my precious life. Turns out, they weren’t lies. He was right. There is absolutely nothing wrong with me.
So, I grew up and learned how to live my life in a good way. (The alternative is not good).
If you’re really looking for help, go see George. You will not regret it.

George is truly an inspiration. He speaks from the heart and is always on point.
When I first met George I was unsure of what I was getting myself into. But from the moment I heard him speak I knew that I was in GREAT hands. His words are profound and speak directly to my heart and soul, body and mind. He is grounded in his practice and wants EVERYTHING for you!
His counsel and support is exactly what I need. He has taught me to feel love and appreciation for ALL things ALL of the time. In a good way he is there to help me see myself as the perfect being I truly am capable of being, for that I am grateful.
Gift yourself the greatest gift of all– go see George, you will not regret it.

George ‘Grey Eagle’ Bertelstein is a Sacred Prayer Pipe Carrier and holder of Oklevueha Native American Church. From my personal experience I have learned more about myself and life itself by sitting with one of the pipes that Grey Eagle gifted me, years ago.
With the counseling licensing that Grey Eagle has earned and maintains, coupled with the Sacred Prayer Pipe teachings I cannot imagine any two legged person more qualified to successfully assist a person to move to the next level of consciousness of peaceful coexistence with all of our earthly relations.

George’s loving, gentle approach has helped me turn my life around.
He was never interested in making me wrong for my thoughts, my hard feelings or my past behaviors. He helped me find in myself what I wanted from life, how I wanted to behave, how I wanted to treat the people that I love, and how I wanted to treat myself.
I recommend George to my friends all the time.

I was referred to George 4 years ago by a very close friend of mine. He helped me through a difficult time in my life. He is always helpful in the most direct and gently way. I am a father and I have always appreciated his insights into the challenges of parenting.
If you are looking for and wise and kind counselor then George is your man.

I first met George through a friend about 12 years ago when I lived in Washington state. After that, whenever I was in the Bay area it seemed the obvious thing to do was to go see George. Now that I live in SF it still seems the obvious thing to do.
Before I met George I had never considered seeing a male counselor, but after meeting and talking with George I felt completely at ease and completely understood. I would recommend George to anyone with the desire to improve their life. George’s perception and clarity of thought have been an invaluable tool and a great gift in my life.

George is the person who I, as a Soul Coach and international facilitator of Dancing Freedom, go to to get straight with my psyche, with my heart and with spirit.
His depth, humor and immanent wisdom give me practical and refined direction in my life and in my prayer. When I am in his presence, clarity finds me. I can not think of anyone in Berkeley who I recommend more highly as a counselor.