How To Become A Psychic Medium
Updated 2025.07.21
Mediumship abilities usually find you. Perhaps you have a gift for your abilities and found out by surprise. Perhaps a life change opened the path.
Whenever your calling towards mediumship opens, you can intentionally develop your mediumship gifts.
When I was a little girl, I called mediumship, “dreams you have when you’re awake,” because of how the visions appeared to me. I now understand the visions to be clairvoyance, the intuitive pathway through which my mediumship abilities manifest.
But it wasn’t until later in my life that I felt the calling to get to the bottom of what these visions and spiritual encounters meant.
Psychic mediumship opens your sensitivity to Spirit
You can pick up on the energy of a Spirit in the room. You may be able to see Spirit in your mind’s eye or in the space around you.
You may be able to perceive their messages.
Becoming a professional psychic medium is practicing and honing those sensitivities to help others
People may want to hear these messages.
You may be able to see the Spirits that belong to other people and describing this to them may help others understand that life continues after we make our physical exit.
The most common ways medium abilities begin to show themselves
After someone you love dies, you start to see visions, have more lucid dreams or even sense their presence
You've been spending time with other sensitives - Spirit will open gifts when a support system is available
You’re drawn to explore spiritual, psychic and intuitive topics
You have been practicing energy work and meditation
You are already an empath - someone with a high emotional IQ
But let’s cut to the chase - if you’ve found this blog (or this blog found you), you likely have mediumistic gifts.
Below are a few steps to open psychic mediumship gifts.
How To Become A Psychic Medium
Step 1. Immerse yourself in learning about it
Read as much as you can about mediumship and intuition.
There are plenty of resources on this blog, plus an eBook, The Medium’s Toolkit. I've also created meditations, videos and advanced articles in The Membership.
The more you know about mediumship, the more it will feel normal and easier to practice.
Step 2. Practice your gifts
I suggest starting with a few how to articles on communicating with Spirit:
After that, consider attending a practice group. Every month in The Membership, I host a Live Workshop with a practice portion, where you can develop your gifts in a group.
3. Develop your gifts one practice at a time
Everyone develops at different rates and there are many different ways that mediumship can manifest.
In general, there are 5 steps to opening your abilities. There are also four main ways to manifest mediumship.
Rather than trying to do everything at once, just focus on one practice a day. You may call in your Spirit Guides, give yourself a practice reading or ask Spirit for a sign.
4. Consider offering your gifts to be of service for others
Once you have practiced your mediumship gifts for a few months or given a few successful readings to others, you may want to consider offering your gifts professionally to others.
I started offering my gifts professionally after 100 readings.
But readings aren’t the only way to use mediumship gifts in a professional setting.
You can write books, teach, work with paranormal groups, perform readings, clear houses, do spiritual energy work, channel peaceful energy to benefit yourself and others.
When you get to that point, I recommend the Business Resources Center in The Membership. It’s a collection of videos, tools and articles in The Member Center on using your abilities in a professional setting.
Once your mediumship gifts open, they stay with you for the rest of your life. It becomes part of the very thread of who you are at the core of your being and continues to shape your worldview.
For me, embracing my gifts as a medium ended up being a lifestyle choice. It’s the longest job I’ve held and I am forever positively changed knowing what I know now because of it.
Looking back, I would make the same decision if offered the opportunity again today.
As a medium one of the benefits is that you will positively change people's lives, usually starting with your own.
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