Meet 11 of SA’s most popular psychics, mediums and clairvoyants
Most have known they’ve have a “gift” since birth but only embraced it after a near-death experience. Meet the South Aussies using their sixth sense to help others.
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A young South Australian woman was “working her way up the corporate ladder” when she decided to ditch her day job and become a psychic medium.
It was the death of her grandmother that motivated Sonia Burman to embrace her calling in her early 30s.
Ms Burman, now 42, said she saw a psychic medium to help her heal.
“That was the day I realised that seeing Spirit from a young age wasn’t a curse but could be a tool to help people,” she said.
“The grief my family felt was intensified by the fact that she died in hospital, alone, half an hour after my uncle had left her.
“Not only did I find out that my granny was OK, she had waited for my uncle to leave the hospital that day.
“My granny didn’t want any family to have the memory of her last moments.”
After the reading the Cheltenham woman said she passed on the message to her extended family and the effect was immediate.
“The comfort of knowing my granny was OK and she got to pass on her own terms was an incredible gift to my family,” she said.
“It helped with the healing process exponentially.”
Ms Burman, who charges $250 for an hour, has harnessed her “psychic senses” and telepathic abilities to relay information between people and their deceased loved ones.
She uses images, sounds, feelings, smells and tastes when doing a reading and to pass on messages she receives from “spirit”.
“Spirit provides the information to me through images, sounds, often song lyrics, movements and feelings and I decipher the pieces of information,” she said,
“It is a beautiful way to connect with family, share stories and remember a loved one.
“When someone passes away, their spiritual body changes frequency and moves to a different vibration – mediums raise their vibration and our loved ones lower theirs and we meet in the middle.
“The best way I can explain it is that energy is never lost.”
Like Ms Burman, many SA psychics, mediums and clairvoyants say they’ve known they have a “gift” since birth but only embraced it later in life and turned their unique ability into a vocation.
Meet 10 more of the state’s most popular psychics.
Vicki Button – Intuitive Clairvoyant
Location: Victor Harbor
Price: Readings start at $30 for one question
Vicki Button knew from a young age she had a gift after seeing a woman laying on a bed in her great-grandfather’s house.
The intuitive clairvoyant later worked out the woman was her great-grandmother, who had died 20 years before was born.
Then during a near-death experience in 2020 Ms Button said she was able to leave her body and “see” the other side.
The Victor Harbor woman, who also lived in Mount Gambier for three decades said opening her third eye and learning how to develop her visions had helped her make accurate predictions and readings.
“All my readings are done via email so I just need a photo of someone to do the reading,” Ms Button said.
“I recently helped a guy in Adelaide find his missing cat late last year.
“There was a newspaper story about him and his beloved cat, I gave him all the visuals of where I saw the cat and he found it in exactly that place.”
Ms Button has an active social media presence, a YouTube channel and has done multiple podcast interviews.
“I have no problem sharing who I am with the public,” she said.
“There are many out there who aren’t particularly psychic and who claim to be and they give us a bad name.”
Amie Vello – Clairvoyant Medium
Location: Blair Athol
Price: An hour session starts at $135/hr or $50 for 20 minutes at a fair
She has had “the gift” since birth but it was the death of her son shortly after he was born that led Amie Vello to a 14 year career as a medium.
“My mum knew, and I found out when I went myself to have a reading,” Ms Vello said.
“After my son Jesse passed away I went for a reading and she told me I would be doing readings and I would be good at it.
“My reaction was, ‘nah you’re crazy’, but she was like, ‘no.’”
Ms Vello, who lives with cerebral palsy and has used a wheelchair for most of her life, named her website jesseisanangel.com.au in tribute to her lost child.
“I may be in a wheelchair, but there is nothing I can’t do,” she said.
“I do readings from home, I do fairs around Adelaide. I’m on stage talking about my life, how and why I became a medium.”
Ms Vello practises psychometry, which involves reading and sensing stories based on an object’s history and previous owner through touch.
The Blair Athol woman holds items against her forehead and sometimes uses a crystal ball, known as an orbuculum, and said it was one of the oldest tools for clairvoyance.
“I can sense through different methods – all existing things are made of energy so psychometry allows energetic impressions left in the item come to life again,” she said.
“This method can give you insights like who might’ve owned the item and what experiences they might’ve had during their time with it including emotions and trauma.”
Damian Marc
Location: Adelaide
Price: Sessions istart at $118 for 30 minutes
When nine people were executed in Bali in 2015 this Adelaide man says he could see the spiritual fallout.
For Damian Marc, who is now a psychic and evidential medium, this moment was a life changing experience.
Mr Marc said he could see the impact the execution had on the families and relatives, and the experience changed his focus forever.
He changed his career trajectory and became a full-time psychic and medium.
Annie Jury – Tarot Card Reader
Location: Adelaide
Price: Sessions start at $100 for 30 minutes
In her 25 years as a professional tarot card reader Annie Jury has done readings for rock stars, entrepreneurs, politicians and travellers from all over the world.
Ms Jury said she provides guidance and answers to people trying to help them “step into their best life”.
She specialises in the Akashic records – records, which are said to contain information about all our lifetimes and can be “read” to answer questions a person may have about their relationships, past lives or finding the right path in this lifetime.
“In a general reading, you may ask three questions or look at three areas of your life,” she said.
“A general reading can help you see what is coming up, where the energy is flowing in your life, where there may be blocks and how you can make changes to find the best path forward.
“Tarot accesses both your soul purpose and more day-to-questions about your life.”
Ms Jurie also teaches others how to read tarot cards and use a pendulum as a method of “divining”.
Kate Baker – Psychic and Clairvoyant
Location: Adelaide, Barossa Valley and Riverland
Price: Readings start at $60 for 30 minutes
Kate Baker’s goal is to provide clarity and insight for a person’s most pressing issues and to help others feel more confident in their choices.
Practising under the name Soul Healing with Kate, the medium said a clairvoyant reading was often the beginning of a personal journey of self discovery and a search for higher meaning.
The readings, however, are meant as entertainment according to Ms Baker who said anyone with a serious or medical problem should seek professional help.
Jane Phillips – Tarot Card Reader, Psychic and Past Life Reader
Location: Plympton
Price: Sessions start at $100 for 30 minutes
Jane Phillips began her psychic journey at the age of 14 and has been working in the industry for 30 years.
Her services not only include tarot and affinity card readings but undertaking spellcraft, enchantments and removing curses, hexes and bad luck.
Ms Phillips said readings were intended as a guide to stay positive, empowered and encouraged.
“When we walk from one moment to the next, many things influence our paths, “ Ms Phillips said.
“Other people, our environment, our desires and fears – how we handle these influences will impact on the moment’s outcome, leading us to the next, and the next after that.”
Ms Phillips also invites people to initiate a relationship with an animal totem or an animal guide and “clears” homes and businesses of bad energy.
Jo Newman – Psychic and Medium
Location: Adelaide Hills
Prices: Sessions start at $130 an hour or $70 for a 30 minute phone consultation
Adelaide Hills psychic and medium Jo Newman has been practising her craft for more than 30 years.
She has developed her gift since childhood and since trained and become certified with international medium Lisa Williams.
Ms Newman offers “compassionate” readings, offering support and healing, facilitating change and promises to leave her clients feeling reassured and uplifted.
Part of her service is connecting people with loved ones who have “passed over”.
The mother and author also offers readings for children and said she could “read” a child’s energy.
Di Goulding – Clairvoyant and Medium
Location: Gawler East
Price: Sessions start at $300 for two hours
Even as a child Di Goulding knew she had the sixth sense and psychic ability.
The Gawler East clairvoyant and medium said most of her decisions have been made on the basis of her intuition.
“Many of us have simply forgotten that we are a soul having a human experience,” Ms Goulding said.
“And we are all capable of hearing our inner voice and our connection to Spirit.”
Ms Goulding is also an Angel Reader, offering others “angelic assistance” by asking guardian angels for psychic guidance and divine insights.
“My ultimate aim is to assist clients in their time of grief through enlightening, inspiring and delivering messages of love and healing,” she said.
“This is very important for closure.”
Elizabeth Sandland aka Lotus Star – Seer and Alchemist
Location: Happy Valley
Price: Session starts at $80 for an hour
Elizabeth Sandland, known as Lotus Star, is a seer, alchemist and spiritual teacher, who does crystal tarot readings, astrology, numerology and clairvoyant readings.
“I assist people through the Fire to go as deep as they can and not get burnt seeking the answers as they face the intensity of their own fire,” Ms Sandland said.
Melinda – Clairvoyant and Medium
Location: Ethelton
Melinda, who doesn’t use her surname publicly, has been a clairvoyant and medium for most of her life.
“My readings involve speaking with loved ones on the other side, communicating with your guides and receiving messages from Angels and Ascended Masters,” she said.
“My preferred tool is to use the tarot intuitively, I can do photo readings and psychometry, I can interpret your dreams and I also do healings to clear your energies and give you a feeling of well being.”
Practising under the name Melinda’s House of M, she prides herself on treating each client with the utmost respect and said that any information she receives from the universe is treated with the highest confidentiality.
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