Today we’d like to introduce you to Noelle Deane.
Hi Noelle, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
My path into this work has been shaped much more by lived experience than by a clear plan. Looking back, I think I’ve been guided more by a sense of purpose and curiosity than by certainty—almost like following a compass point that would appear just long enough for me to take the next step before revealing the next one.
I started out studying sociology. After a few left turns, I eventually became a licensed mental health therapist, spending years working closely with people navigating trauma, loss, and difficult life circumstances. That experience gave me a deep respect for the complexity of people, relationships, emotional pain, and the need for hope. This awareness and empathy continue to shape how I support others.
At the same time, I was always trying to understand intuition and perception more deeply. I can be naturally quite skeptical, in part because of painful experiences earlier in my life involving someone who presented themselves as a helpful psychic but turned out to be manipulative and dishonest. That experience made me very cautious about this kind of work and deeply aware of how important discernment and integrity are in these spaces.
A major turning point came after a health diagnosis and cancer treatment affected my cognitive functioning and made it difficult to continue working in traditional mental health roles and changed the direction of my professional life altogether. I had to slow down and learn how to navigate life differently, relying much more on internal awareness and intuition in my day-to-day life.
That shift eventually led me into studying medical intuition, which gradually opened the door to mediumship. I didn’t immediately accept or fully trust what I was experiencing. Instead, I approached it carefully over time through direct experience, continued training, and a commitment to staying as grounded and honest as possible about what I was perceiving.
Over the years, I’ve completed extensive training (and continue to pursue courses to expand my awareness and abilities), done hundreds of sessions, taught classes, written a beginner’s guide to mediumship, and created a podcast focused on intuition, spiritual connection, and personal growth. What continues to inspire me is the depth and complexity of connection itself and the realization that there is always more to learn, explore, and better understand about consciousness, intuition, and our relationships with one another.
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
It definitely hasn’t been a smooth road.
One of the biggest challenges was learning to trust myself and what I was perceiving without slipping into fantasy, performance, or exaggeration. Because of my own past experiences, I was naturally skeptical and very cautious about engaging with this kind of work. I didn’t want to believe something simply because I wanted it to be true.
I later realized this is one of the biggest hurdles for many people learning intuitive or mediumship abilities. We’re raised within cultural beliefs that often frame these experiences as strange, taboo, or inherently unbelievable. Even people who are naturally very intuitive frequently question themselves or dismiss what they perceive because it doesn’t fit neatly into what they’ve been taught is acceptable or rational.
For me, building trust in my work happened gradually through direct experience, consistency, and a willingness to stay honest about what I was and wasn’t perceiving. I never wanted to force certainty or create something dramatic. I wanted to develop a relationship with intuition and mediumship that felt grounded, honest, compassionate, and emotionally responsible.
At the same time, I was also adapting to major life changes and the significant impact cancer treatment had on my cognitive abilities, which ultimately changed the direction of my professional life. This required me to rethink not only how I worked, but who I was becoming in the process.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your business?
Connecting with Noelle centers around mediumship, intuitive development, and helping people build a deeper sense of trust in themselves and their own connection.
I offer one-on-one mediumship sessions, intuitive coaching, small group classes, and educational content through my podcast, Mediumship Sparks. I’ve also written a beginner’s guide to mediumship designed to help make these experiences feel more approachable, grounded, and accessible for people who are curious but may not know where to begin. I facilitate a weekly intuition/mediumship practice circle at Return to Wholeness, a lovely metaphysical shop nestled in the heart of Poway.
What probably sets my work apart most is the emphasis on honesty, emotional awareness, and transparency. I’m not interested in performance, creating dependency, or presenting myself as someone with all the answers. My goal is to communicate what I genuinely perceive as clearly and responsibly as possible while helping people remain connected to their own inner knowing and personal agency.
In mediumship sessions, I’m often aware not only of the connection with a loved one in spirit, but also of the emotional reality of the relationship itself. Sometimes that shows up through humor, shared memories, or personality traits that feel unmistakably familiar. Other times it brings opportunities for accountability, reconciliation, or the kind of emotional healing that can happen when people feel truly seen, understood, or still deeply loved beyond physical loss.
I’ve also seen how profoundly healing it can be when someone realizes that love, connection, and relationship may continue in ways they never expected after physical death. That realization can soften grief, reduce fear, and help someone feel less alone in the world.
Teaching has also become an important part of my work. One of the things I care about most is helping people recognize that intuition is not reserved for a select few. Many people already experience intuitive knowing in everyday life but have learned to dismiss or distrust it. I am passionate about helping people explore those abilities in a grounded and practical way.
While mediumship sessions can be deeply meaningful, I care just as much about helping people recognize and trust the ways connection may already be showing up in their own lives through intuition, dreams, sensations, signs, memories, and moments of felt presence.
More than anything, I want people to feel safe being human in this work. Spirituality can sometimes become performative or disconnected from real life, and I’ve tried to create an approach that feels authentic, thoughtful, emotionally honest, and deeply respectful of the vulnerability involved in both grief and healing.
If you had to, what characteristic of yours would you give the most credit to?
I think transparency and trustworthiness are probably the most important qualities in my work.
Mediumship is a field that naturally brings skepticism, curiosity, and vulnerability together. Many people have either never had a meaningful experience themselves or have had experiences that felt exaggerated, manipulative, or emotionally exploitative. I understand that concern deeply, in part because I had my own painful experience with a psychic early in my life who used her abilities in deeply manipulative ways, including toward me. That experience made honesty and discernment incredibly important to me.
Because of that, I approach this work with a strong commitment to clean intentions and transparency. I don’t believe in trying to impress people or making dramatic claims for the sake of impact. In sessions, my goal is to communicate what I’m genuinely perceiving as clearly and accurately as possible, without embellishment or performance.
To me, trustworthiness in this field means being willing to say, “This is what I’m getting,” rather than shaping information into something bigger, more polished, or more emotionally charged than it actually is. Sometimes the most meaningful moments are very simple and human.
I also think people can feel the difference when someone is more interested in helping than in being seen as special. My intention has always been to support people in feeling more connected to themselves, their loved ones, and their own inner knowing—not to create dependency or give away their authority.
Over time, I think that groundedness, honesty, and genuine care are what have allowed people to feel safe with me and with the process itself.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.connectingwithnoelle.com
- Instagram: connectingwithnoelle
- Facebook: connectingwithnoelle
- LinkedIn: Noelle Deane
- Youtube: Connecting with Noelle
