Keryn Shields the travelling psychic bringing smiles to regional Queenslanders

Leaving her strict Catholic upbringing in Brisbane and pursuing her true calling after a run in with fate, a travelling psychic quit her retail job to travel the country and share her psychic gift with others. Now she’s set up camp in Roma.

Keryn said she travels to towns where she feels there's a need for guidance and support. Picture: Supplied.

A Brisbane woman who quit her retail job and packed up her life in the big smoke to follow her true calling said it’s the best thing she’s ever done.

Clairvoyant Keryn Shields has been on the road visiting regional and rural towns across Australia since she changed the trajectory of her life five years ago, with the latest leg of her tour taking her across southwest Queensland to Dalby and Chinchilla and now Roma.

Ms Shields, who has had psychic abilities her whole life, said she started tapping into them and connecting with people on and off about 15 years ago, but now she travels full time as she shares her gift to help rural Australians.

Her travels have taken her across Queensland to places including Longreach, Winton, Cloncurry, Mt Isa, Townsville, Emerald, Charters Towers and Airlie Beach.

“I mainly stick to the outback, I love the west, I love the diversity and peace and quiet. It’s nice to take off from the mainstream,” she said.

Keryn and her husband packed up their life in Brisbane five years ago to travel the country in their caravan to connect and inspire people. Picture: Supplied.

Ms Shields said travels all started from when she was working in a crystal shop in Brisbane and got the urgent feeling to visit the tiny remote town of Kununarra in Western Australia.

“I said to my husband, ‘I’m being told I need to go to Kununurra’ and he asked where Kununarra was and I said it’s in WA and at the time we lived in Brisbane, so he said how are we going to do this,” she said.

“I told him to take three months off work in long service leave, we got a second-hand caravan and went to Kununurra to see why I’m supposed to be there.

“I had no expectations, I acted with my feelings and we did it and it was a great experience. There was a need over there – there’s a lot of loneliness and separation from the mainstream.”

Since that first trip the rest has been history, with Ms Shields and her husband travelling in their fitted-out caravan across the country.

During her travels Ms Shields has grown a new love of regional Australia, saying she always felt a welcoming energy whenever she stayed in country towns.

Keryn said before every client she lights candles, sets intentions and prepares the space for their session to enable a peaceful and welcoming space. Picture: Supplied.

“There’s a different energy in the city as opposed to the beautiful country areas,” she said.

“I feel with the city people, if they need something they can go to this shop or that shop, they’ve got everything at their fingertips.

“I say this respectfully, (but) the energy of the city is that it’s a bit taken for granted.

“Country people don’t have as much as a city person might have, there’s more gratitude and appreciation.

“When I come to the country, people open their arms up. There’s such a different vibration – they love this sort of work. They love readings, to sit down and have a chat.”

Ms Shields’ acceptance of her spiritual gift is a far cry from her strict Catholic upbringing which made her feel scared and sceptical of her abilities.

“Back in those days in the 60s it was very different to what it is today,” she said.

Keryn's current camping set up while she visits Roma. Picture: Supplied.

“When I was little I was always scared of the dark, I always felt like there was something in the room and I couldn’t put my finger on it, but I had no one to talk to because in those days it could have been looked at as something demonic.

“I closed off to it and got very frightened of it.”

Ms Shields said she had a “very strong experience” with a guardian angel when she was 13 during a bus trip to the Snowy Mountains.

“There was a bus load of girls and we had dinner and came back to the cabin,” she said.

“It was snowing very heavily and around 9pm that night when we were in our bunk beds going to sleep, when the lights turned off I got this horrific feeling that I had to get up.

“I had a really strong feeling that if I didn’t get up something bad was going to happen.

“I asked everyone if they closed the doors and when they said no we didn’t shut the front door, I got this chill up the back of my spine and I just knew without a shadow of a doubt something was wrong.

Keryn's travels are guided and determined by a spiritual feeling to visit a particular place. Picture: Supplied.

“I needed to get someone to help me go out the front because I was scared to do so by myself, and then when doing so there was a man standing behind the shower curtain.

“That to me was my real first experience of a guardian angel, so after that I just trusted it and believed.”

Ms Shields has no plans to stop her travels and is excited to explore more of Australia and revisit towns she’s serviced.

Her advice to people wanting to tune into their own intuition and learn how to connect with people on a psychic level is to meditate.

She said meditation can be doing whatever you love most and just solely focusing on that one thing.

Ms Shields compared psychic ability to a muscle, saying everyone has it on some level but “they haven’t strengthened the muscle” and the more you train it, the more prominent it will be.

Originally published as Keryn Shields the travelling psychic bringing smiles to regional Queenslanders