What is the difference between a ‘psychic’ and a ‘medium’?

A ‘psychic’ is someone who can pick up information about a person, object, etc., in a way that cannot be explained by scientifically accepted means. A ‘medium’ is someone who can in some way sense and communicate with the so-called ‘spirit world’. By spirit world, I mean the dimension we will all find ourselves in when we ‘wake up dead’, as I like to put it. When our bodies die, our spirit/consciousness/personality/essence, call it what you will, carries on, in another dimension. A medium can see, or hear, or sense, and in some way communicate with, this other dimension. Many people who are psychic think that they are also mediums - they may be able to tell you amazing things that you already know about loved ones who have passed over, because they are pulling this information from your mind. A true medium gets their information directly from the deceased person, so they may be able to tell you things you did NOT know, which you will have to verify later. It sometimes takes a lot of training and practice to be able to tell the difference. All mediums are psychic, but very few psychics are mediums.

What is a ‘clairvoyant’?

Good question! The term ‘clairvoyant’ has become rather misused and confusing in recent years. Strictly speaking, going back about 100 years, ‘clairvoyant’ (literally: “clear seeing”) meant someone who could

SEE the spirit world, that is, a medium (see “What is the difference between a ‘psychic’ and a ‘medium’).  A medium who could SENSE the spirit world was called ‘clairsentient’, those who could HEAR the spirit world, ‘clairaudient’. Most mediums are all three. However, the term ‘clairvoyant’ in the last few decades has come to be used in connection with anyone professing any type of psychic ability. I am afraid that today, therefore, ‘clairvoyant’ does not any longer necessarily mean very much.

How long have you been doing ‘Readings’?

I have been seeing clients for about 30 years, and have been a full-time professional psychic for around 17 years. (That is, not counting the ‘readings’ I used to give to my school friends in my teenage years in the school playground, which were mainly to do with questions such as: ‘what boys do you think might want to go out with me’!)


What happens in a typical ‘Reading’?

Different people want different things of course, but usually I will begin by asking you to write a couple of sentences on a piece of paper. This gives me some of your handwriting which I can analyse, and also enables me to psychically ‘look’ at you while your mind is occupied. I will tell you what I can sense about you, past, present and future. I may ask you to shuffle some Tarot cards, and I may ‘read’ the huge amount of information about you (again, past, present and future) from the lines on your palms. If you wish to get in touch with departed loved ones, I will try and get in touch with them and relate to you what they say (note - I cannot MAKE them tell me anything specific, any more than you could MAKE a living person give you information). Some clients only want mediumship, some clients just want to know about a possible business deal, and so on, and I will always concentrate on the area of interest to that client. Do I tell you what to do or what to decide - NO! That is your responsibility. What I WILL do is say - look, if you go in this direction, this will happen, if you do this, this is likely to be the outcome, and so on, but which way you go is up to you. Frequently, people ask me: “will this relationship work out ok”? I am always diplomatic, but if I see it not going well, I will tell you as best I can. Many clients do not of course want to accept that a new and seemingly ‘wonderful’ relationship is not going to be good for them, and they will go ahead regardless. I find out that it went wrong when they come back to see me some years later. We all have to tread our own path of learning, and we don’t have to heed warnings if we don’t want to. While I will never tell anyone anything horrible or foretell death (which I hardly ever see anyway, because I prefer not to), I will answer direct questions as best I can, which is very often not what clients want to hear. The golden rule of going to see a psychic is: “If you really don’t want to know, then don’t ask!”. I do always try to make my readings helpful, useful, uplifting, and where possible, fun. (Be aware that not all psychics work like this, and I have heard of some that will tell clients things that I would never say, even if I saw them. The best way to find a good psychic, if you want a reading, is by personal recommendation from a satisfied client - that is how I get ALL my business).