Choosing an Animal Communicator You Trust
What to Look For, and Why More Than One Perspective Is Okay
I wasn't the first person to sit with this one cat. I wouldn't be the last, either. And that was fine — every animal is its own being, and every session is its own conversation, regardless of who came before.
Before we even started, his owner told me she'd worked with two other animal communicators before me. She just wanted another lens.
I appreciated the honesty. It told me we could go deeper, not start over.
Different Instruments
Every animal communicator perceives differently. Some of us see images first. Some hear words, or feel sensation in our own bodies, or catch a mood before anything else arrives. This is called telepathy. Training shapes this too — where you studied, who taught you, what you practiced before you ever sat down with an animal.
I trained for many years as a clairvoyant and psychic medium before I trained as an animal communicator — then kept going, into pet loss work, nature spirits, astral healing, shamanism. Those early years were less about learning skills and more about clearing my own stuff out of the way — so I could actually be present for someone else's. Each door led somewhere I didn't expect, and each one deepened what I could offer.
None of it stayed separate. I follow the current underneath things — that's usually where the real cause lives, and where shifts can actually begin.
All animal communicators are trained to listen, and have a special area of interest and expertise. Mine has always been the emotional and spiritual — what an animal is carrying, how it connects to their purpose here, and to the relationship with the person who loves them.
More Than One Window
Can you see more than one animal communicator? Sure. This kind of work isn't a one-and-done. Sometimes it takes more than one visit — or more than one voice — before the whole picture comes into focus. Similar to two photographers standing at the same field, an hour apart. One catches the fog still low over the grass. The other waits for the light to break through it. Neither shot is wrong. You're just seeing it at a different hour.
That's what his owner understood, sitting across from me. She wasn't shopping around. She was gathering understanding, the way you'd gather light from more than one window.
It also helps to know what a session can and can't do. No communicator, however many perspectives you gather, can make an animal want something it doesn't want, or force a change it isn't ready for. What a session offers is understanding — sometimes that's enough on its own, and sometimes it's the start of a longer process. Either way, it's not a fix you're buying. It's insight.
What to Look For in a Good Animal Communicator
So what do you actually look for, when you're choosing an animal communicator? A few things come to mind.
Training tells you someone took this seriously enough to study it — not just a certificate, but who taught them, and how long they've practiced. Mine started with years of clairvoyant training before I ever sat with an animal, then went on to certify with Penelope Smith.
Notice how someone talks about their own work — especially about uncertainty. Whether you call it animal communication, pet psychic work, or something else, it's telepathic listening, not fortune-telling — we're not reading minds or predicting what's ahead. We do our best, and every so often, we get it wrong. When that happens, I say so. I'd rather tell you "I'm not sure about that one" than dress up a guess as certainty.
A good session is collaborative. I say this at the start of every session: this time is yours. If something feels off, tell me — let's pause and adjust rather than going down the wrong road. We're here to listen, and to answer what you came to ask.
And style — read their writing, if they have any. A blog, a few testimonials, anything in their own words. You'll get a feel for whether their voice is one you'd want in the room with your animal. I write about my own sessions, and about Stanley, the dog who started all of this — so if you read a few posts, you'll already know something about how I work before we ever talk. You can find that writing on my blog.
That's what to look for. But back to the cat.
By the end of our session, something in the room had shifted. Not because I'd said something the others hadn't — just because it was a different day, a different door, a different way in.
That's the part worth remembering. You're not choosing the one right person. You're choosing who you want in the room with you, right now, for this particular thing you're carrying — one more door, deepening what you understand.
Trust that instinct. It's usually the truest thing you've got.
If you're looking for a fresh perspective on what your animal is trying to tell you, I'd love to hear from you. Book a session.
Lesley Ames is a psychic medium and animal communicator based in Seattle and available worldwide. She works remotely by phone or Zoom with people who want to understand what their animal is experiencing. You can find her at lesleyames.com.