Readings Are Not Therapy/Coaching

I wanted to write this entry for quite a while, but I haven't felt the muse until this afternoon. I just got home from work and food shopping for my plant-based enchilada dinner tonight (which I'm so excited to cook!).

I want to discuss how Readings are not Coaching nor Therapy.

First off, I want to state that I did not launch my practice with the hopes of becoming a Coach and I do not have the credentials to offer Therapy/Counseling. I started my practice as a Psychic Medium (A Reader) because I learned that I am able to provide people with Information.

Information is the name of the game. Evidential Information. Psychic and Mediumistic Readings are focused on (in my work) delivering my clients information as accurately as I can. To be a Tool.

Yes, Readings can provide Guidance and Encouragement. Possible Directions to flow one's attention and actions. Reminders and Synchronistic-Driven Messages. These will ALWAYS be married with Information.

I developed my skills to See, Hear, Feel, Smell, Taste, and Know INFORMATION.

I want to make even more clarification about my Readings because I believe in True, Informed Consent. I want to make it explicitly clear of how I can help my clients and I want to ensure that my clients' expectations and perceptions are anchored in the reality of what I can provide for them.

Readings are not on-going services scheduled multiple times a month. I advise my clients wait 6 months to 1 year before coming back to me (if they choose to do so). I advise this because Information needs to unfold in the choices my clients make following the reading and the responses to the experiences which manifest for my clients after the reading.

I do not want my clients to depend on me. I have denied reading requests when some clients schedule another reading with me so close to the previous reading they scheduled. My clients can depend on me to be a Tool for them during their session and I do not recommend scheduling multiple readings in quick succession of each other. I personally get read twice a year and the readings are 6 months apart from one another.

To use me as an Effective Tool.

I shared in other entries that at the end of 2024 I felt overwhelmed by my current challenges. I needed help navigating the terrain and my psyche. So! Higher Mind inspired me to find a therapist who I worked with for a few months. The therapist was excellent and the sessions were exactly what I needed! Ongoing assistance. Weekly assistance. Weekly sessions.

I'm not qualified to provide the care that therapists can provide for people. Yes, I do draw upon my own experiences to help provide guidance, but I am limited in my capacity to counsel. I also do not want to be a therapist otherwise I'd do the necessary schooling to be qualified to begin a career in therapeutic counseling.

Therapy is for short-term and long-term care with practitioners who are trained for this level of care. I've had readings where I recognized my limitations and the guidance that streamed through me for my clients were to reach out to a therapist.

I'm not here to dive that deeply into the Psyche of my clients. I am more of a liason in which I will direct my clients to what feels like may be great opportunities for healing. These directions will always be married with Information that can be validated to confirm the accuracy of the directions I receive and relay.

My clients are very well aware of how I can help them especially since I operate on a referral basis. They know that they're coming to me for a Reading and for Information. They aren't coming to me for a therapy session, but that doesn't mean that I won't be helping them. It is a different type of assistance.

Even with mediumship! I can be a Tool to help my clients engage with their healing journeys, but mediumship is still about Information. To provide Information from their loved ones in Spirit, but I'm not providing grief counseling.

Now I'm sure you're aware of the many layers and many...twists and turns of the Coaching Industry. For every 100 "coaches"...you may find just a handful who are doing that type of work for the benefit of their clients and who are qualified to do their work well. Coaching is for ongoing assistance like therapy. Repeating sessions. Building on the work from the previous session.

But! Readings are not like that.

I want to see you once and do my job. To do my job well in what I can actually provide.

I see images and mini-movies. I hear words, fragments of sentences, and various sounds. I feel emotion and physical sensations. I just know things. I see symbols depicting energy and the energy momentum my clients are brewing. I taste food. I smell scents. The Psychic Toolkit.

Readings are a Looking Glass. Insights to Past, Present, and Future.

Readings are of me turning into a medium for Spirits to show glimmers of their essences.

I am a clue giver. I am just a Tool.

I wrote this entry to make even more of a distinction so my clients are fully aware of how I am just here to deliver Information. Clearly, there is a lot of information woven throughout my website so this entry is just another addition.

Therapy and Coaching are different Crafts. More involved forms of assistance.

Reading is its own Craft and a specific Tool to assist people with navigating their respective journeys.