About Astara
A gift she did not choose, and could not put down
Astara is an international psychic medium, tarot reader and energy healer, and also a hypnotherapist and NLP practitioner. This is the story of how she got here, what she has learned along the way, and how she works with the people who come to her today.
- 20+years working as a psychic medium
- 25+years of Reiki and energy healing practice
- Thousandsof readings and treatments given
- Worldwideclients across the UK and beyond
Some people are simply built to notice more
Long before Astara had a name for it, she had the thing itself. A knowing that arrived before the facts did. A sense, sitting with someone, of what was really going on underneath what they were saying. As a child this is a strange thing to carry. As an adult, once she understood what it was and stopped trying to talk herself out of it, it became her work.
Astara is a psychic medium, a tarot reader and an energy healer, and over the years she has added hypnotherapy and NLP to what she offers, because insight on its own is not always enough. Sometimes people need a way to actually change something, not just understand it more clearly.
What follows is the fuller story, the training behind the gift, and an honest account of how she works, so that anyone thinking about booking a session knows exactly who they would be sitting down with.
Where it started
She knew things she had no ordinary way of knowing, long before she had a word for it.
Astara grew up noticing what other people missed. A feeling about a visitor before they arrived. A sense that something was wrong with a relative, hours before the phone rang. The small, quiet knowings that most children have brushed out of them by the time they are grown.
She was not brushed out of it. If anything, the sensitivity sharpened as she got older, and she found herself reading rooms, reading people, and reading situations in a way that felt entirely ordinary to her and entirely unusual to everyone else. It took her a while to understand that this was not a party trick or an overactive imagination. It was mediumship, and it was going to be part of how she moved through the world whether she trained it or not.
So she trained it. Properly, patiently, over years rather than weeks, because a gift like this deserves to be handled with care, both for her own sake and for the sake of the people who would eventually sit across from her.
Twenty years of development, not twenty minutes of intuition
What separates a working psychic medium from someone who simply gets the occasional strong feeling is years of development. Astara spent that time sitting in development circles, working with other mediums, learning to tell the difference between her own thoughts and the impressions coming through, and sharpening the accuracy of what she picked up.
Reiki and energy healing came alongside the mediumship, more than twenty five years of it by now. She trained formally, practised constantly, and slowly built the intuitive, tailored approach she is known for today, one where no two treatments look the same because no two people carry the same things.
As a tarot reader, the cards became another language for the same underlying skill. Astara does not use tarot as a fixed system with a script to follow. She uses it as a structure that her intuition can move through, which is why regular clients notice that no two readings ever unfold in quite the same way, even when the cards themselves repeat.
Somewhere along the way, she also trained as a hypnotherapist and became a qualified NLP practitioner, neuro linguistic programming for those unfamiliar with the term. She added these because a reading can show someone exactly where they are stuck, but showing someone is not the same as helping them move. Hypnotherapy and NLP gave her practical tools to work with the mind directly, turning insight into something people could actually act on.
How she actually works with people
Astara is often described by clients as honest, warm and clear, in that order, and it is worth explaining what that actually looks like in a session.
Honest means she tells you what she sees, not what would be easiest to hear. She will not manufacture drama, and she will not soften a difficult impression into something meaningless. If a situation looks hard, she will say so, and she will say it with care.
Warm means the room, physical or over the phone, never feels clinical. People often arrive nervous and leave surprised by how natural the conversation felt. Astara reads for you, not at you.
Clear means no jargon, no vague mysticism for its own sake, and no reading that leaves you more confused than when you arrived. Whether she is working as a psychic medium, a clairvoyant, a spiritual medium or an energy healer in that particular session, the goal is always the same, to leave you with something you can actually use.
As an evidential medium, when spirit comes through, she looks for detail that means something to you specifically, not generic statements that could apply to anyone. That evidential approach carries into her tarot work too. The cards are a starting point for the conversation, and her intuition and mediumship do the rest.
Why she added hypnotherapy and NLP
A reading can tell you where you stand. It can even tell you where things are heading if nothing changes. What it cannot always do is help you change the habit, the reaction, or the pattern that keeps putting you back in the same place. That gap is why Astara trained further, becoming a hypnotherapist and a qualified NLP practitioner alongside her work as a psychic medium and healer.
Hypnotherapy uses guided relaxation and focused attention to work with the thoughts and habits that run quietly in the background of someone's life. Clients stay aware throughout. It is not sleep and it is not stage hypnosis, it is a calm, receptive state in which change tends to feel less like a fight.
NLP gives her a practical way to notice how a client thinks, speaks and reacts, and to turn a vague intention like I want to stop doing this into specific, workable steps. Astara finds it particularly useful after a reading or a healing session has surfaced something a client wants to actually change, rather than simply understand.
Put together with her mediumship, tarot and energy healing, it means she can look at almost any problem from more than one angle, spiritually, energetically and practically, which is fairly unusual for one practitioner to offer under a single roof.
The path so far
A short version of a long journey, for anyone who wants the shape of it at a glance.
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Noticing the gift
Childhood impressions and knowings that had no ordinary explanation, and the slow realisation that this was mediumship, not imagination.
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Training the gift properly
Years in development circles as a psychic medium, alongside formal Reiki and energy healing training that would eventually pass twenty five years.
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Working with real clients
More than twenty years as a working psychic medium and tarot reader, building the intuitive, tailored approach clients describe today.
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Adding hypnotherapy and NLP
Training as a hypnotherapist and qualified NLP practitioner, to help clients turn insight from a reading into real, lasting change.
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Creating The Cleanse
Refining her most in depth healing treatment over years of practice, drawing together mediumship, energy work and intuitive perception.
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Working internationally
An international practice, with clients contacting Astara from around the world for readings, healing, hypnotherapy and NLP.
What she believes about this work
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Honesty over comfort
A reading is not there to flatter you or frighten you. It is there to tell you the truth, delivered with warmth, so you can act on it with your eyes open.
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Your choices stay yours
A psychic medium can show you where a path is heading. She cannot and will not make your decisions for you. What you do next is always your call.
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No fixed script
Whether it is a reading, tarot, Reiki or The Cleanse, Astara works intuitively with what is actually in front of her, not a template applied to everyone.
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Skepticism is welcome
You do not need to believe anything before you arrive. Judge a session by whether it rings true and whether it is useful, nothing more is required of you.
What people say about Astara
Where she works from now
Astara now works as an international psychic medium and energy healer, with clients contacting her from across the UK and from further afield for private readings, tarot, Reiki, The Cleanse, hypnotherapy and NLP.
She still approaches every session the way she did when she first started, without a script, without theatre, and without pretending to know more than she does. What has changed is the depth of experience she brings to that first conversation, more than twenty years as a psychic medium and more than twenty five as an energy healer, held lightly rather than worn as a badge.
If you are curious about what a session with her feels like, the honest answer is that it feels like being properly listened to by someone who happens to notice things most people miss.
Questions people ask about Astara
If yours is not here, ask when you get in touch.
How long has Astara been a psychic medium?
Astara has worked as a psychic medium for more than twenty years, alongside more than twenty five years of Reiki and energy healing practice. Tarot, hypnotherapy and NLP were added over the years that followed.
Is Astara a medium, a clairvoyant, or both?
Both, and the words overlap in everyday use. Astara is a psychic medium, meaning she works with intuition and with impressions that seem to come from beyond the ordinary senses. She is also sometimes described as an evidential medium, because she looks for detail that means something specific to the client, not generic statements.
What training does Astara have?
Years of development work as a psychic medium and mediumship practitioner, formal Reiki and energy healing training spanning more than twenty five years, and further qualifications as a hypnotherapist and an NLP practitioner.
Why does Astara also offer hypnotherapy and NLP?
Because a reading can show you where you stand, but it cannot always help you change a habit or a pattern. Hypnotherapy and NLP give her practical tools to work with the mind directly, so insight from a reading or a healing session can turn into something a client can actually act on.
Does Astara only work with clients in the UK?
No. Astara is an international psychic medium and healer, and clients get in touch with her from around the world, not only from the UK.
What is The Cleanse, and how does it relate to Astara's background?
The Cleanse is Astara's own signature healing treatment, refined over more than twenty five years of energy healing work. It brings together her mediumship, her intuitive perception and her specialised approach to working with energy, in a single, in depth session.
How can I book a session with Astara?
Call 07552 582065 and say what you would like to look at, or send a message on Instagram at @askastaraofficial.
Ready to talk to Astara?
Call Astara on 07552 582065, or send a message on Instagram. Tell her what is on your mind and take it from there.