You may be asked whether the healing you do is kosher. Here are questions that I have asked rebbeim (rabbis) that may help:
Asking Questions of Neshamas Who Have Passed Away
Q: May we contact and ask questions of the dead?
Background: A young woman had come to me for sinus issues. She had been particularly connected to a grandmother who had recently passed. As we progressed in our Guided Healing session, I noticed someone who appeared to be the client’s mother’s mother hovering around the ceiling in the northwest corner of the room. She appeared to want to help, so I asked Granny questions directly and relayed her responses. I was getting remarkable answers when the young lady suddenly said, “We need to be careful about ‘contacting the dead.'”
It was clear that Granny wanted–I would say, was anxious–to tell us things but she didn’t volunteer them. We had to address her and ask her each question. It was our initiating the various parts of this back-and-forth conversation with Granny (who was already present in the room) that bothered the young lady as a halachic question.
A: Rabbi Daniel Kohn, Rav of Bat Ayin
Rav Daniel said it was fine–that the Lubavitcher rebbe used to go to his father’s grave to ask questions. If our asking her questions was how Granny wanted to communicate with us, it was entirely fine to do it her way.
The issur (prohibition) about “contacting the dead” is specifically about the yedoni–which involves rattling certain bones to raise the dead.
Are Family Constellations Kosher?
Q: Are Family Constellations kosher? After all, it seems like contacting the dead.
A: Rabbi Daniel Kohn, Rav of Bat Ayin
Yes, it is fine. [Rav Daniel explained that he has personally experienced a Family Constellation-like mode in which you act as a representative for someone else, and when you are done, you just return to your normal self.]
Q: But maybe it is avoda zara?
A: How can it be avoda zara? You are not bowing down to anything.