Hi there—and again, welcome to Leave a Light Healing Arts. I’m Cat, the founder of this healing little corner and community.

You might be wondering how I got here. I mean, how does someone become a medium and intuitive healer? And then make it a job? The short answer: we’re called. So here’s my story of how that calling unfolded.

Before I ever had language for intuition, I was a sensitive kid. I often sensed things before they happened or watched something unfold that I had wished for and quietly called in. Looking back, there are so many moments I can now recognize as real intuitive experiences, not just the imagination of a child. Like many of us, I brushed those things off as coincidence, fear, or fantasy… the way we’re taught to.

Leave a Light was born long before it took form, before I fully embodied it and brought it to life in 2025. Back in 2020, I lost my younger brother and only sibling just one month before his 22nd birthday. That loss shifted everything. I wasn’t prepared for the grief. Even more than that, I wasn’t prepared for what came next: the realization that I could still feel him, connect with him, and even hear him, on the other side. Then came the revelation that it didn’t stop there—I could sense all of my past on loved ones, and those of the people around me, too.

That’s how mediumship opens for many people. It’s often catalyzed by a deep soul bond with someone who passes—a bond that doesn’t break with death, but transforms and strengthens. For me, that person was my brother. His passing opened a remembering in me: I’ve been sensitive to energy, beings, and others’ emotions my entire life.

As an adult, especially one trained in psychology and working in mental health, I couldn’t explain away the experiences anymore. I knew what I was sensing wasn’t rooted in pathology. It was something older, deeper, and beyond what most of us are taught, or allow ourselves to believe is real.

Over the last eight years, I’ve studied one-on-one with mentors, learned communally alongside others in class and retreat settings, and followed my own intuition as a self-taught student. This journey into mediumship, energy work, and somatic healing has been especially sacred to me because it restored something I thought I had lost: my faith in Spirit. Today, my work blends elements from my spiritual roots, my education and 10 years experience in psychology and the mental health field, intuitive guidance, and grounded practice to support clients to walk away with tangible tools to better care for and support themselves.