In this exclusive interview, MysticMag has the honor of speaking with Denise Lescano—an accomplished Spirit Medium, Psychic, Medical Medium, and Certified Reiki Master. With decades of experience and a profound connection to the spirit world, Denise shares insights into her intuitive gifts, her journey of embracing them, and how she uses her abilities to bring healing, clarity, and connection to those she serves.
Denise, your psychic abilities include being a Spirit Medium, Psychic, Medical Medium, and Energy Healer. How do you balance and integrate these different aspects of your abilities in your work?
I happen to be one of those individuals who possesses all the intuitive abilities—clairvoyance, clairsentience, clairaudience, and claircognizance. These gifts revealed themselves to me early on, including mediumship, which I discovered I had at a young age. From the start, my intuitive development was closely intertwined with my interest in healing. I owned a health spa for a period, worked briefly as a personal trainer, and have a background in nutrition. While I didn’t consciously plan to integrate all these disciplines, they naturally converged over time.
One of the most challenging aspects of this path has been finding balance. The way I manage this is by regularly engaging in grounding activities—simple, human things that keep me rooted in the present moment. Exercise, spending time in nature, being with animals, connecting with my family—these are the things that help restore equilibrium and keep me anchored in my body.
For over 30 years, I taught and practiced mediumship and healing work both in the U.S. and Japan, where I would spend two to three months each year. Through that experience, I learned just how physically, emotionally, and spiritually taxing this work can be. Healing, while profoundly meaningful, can also be deeply depleting if we don’t care for ourselves intentionally. I often remind my students—many of whom are healers themselves—that staying physically healthy and grounded is essential.
Over the years, I’ve observed that many healers and intuitives have a tendency to disconnect from their physicality. They become so attuned to the spiritual realms that they forget they are here to live a human experience. That disconnection can create imbalance. I always emphasize that no matter how spiritually gifted you are, you are here in a body for a reason. The human experience is sacred in its own right.
Personally, my family helps keep me grounded, as do my animals—my dogs and birds. For those of us who are highly intuitive or sensitive, simply being human can sometimes be the greatest challenge. Staying present, grounded, and engaged with the world around us is a discipline in itself.
I’ve come to see two broad types of spiritually inclined people. Some are born highly intuitive and often struggle with how to navigate everyday life. Others consciously seek spirituality, sometimes as an authentic calling—and other times as a way to escape the difficulties of the physical world. I gently remind people that if we were meant to be only spirit, we wouldn’t have incarnated. We’re here for a reason. And this physical life, as I’ve learned through my work as a medium, is fleeting. It’s meant to be lived and fully experienced.
As a Clairvoyant, Clairaudient, Clairsentient, and Clairambient psychic, you receive information from spirits in various ways. Can you share a particularly memorable or impactful experience where these senses converged to provide a powerful message?
I’ve been a professional medium for over 30 years, and in that time, I’ve conducted thousands of readings. This work has been my full-time calling, and I’ve had the opportunity to work alongside law enforcement, though I’m probably best known for my contributions to grief support groups.
When I’m working, it’s never just one sense or channel that comes into play—everything integrates seamlessly. Spirit communicates in many different ways: some are more verbal, others share vivid images, and many impress feelings upon me. Sometimes, it’s also my own psychic intuition attuning to someone else’s energy field. It’s not something I consciously compartmentalize; it all flows together.
People often ask if there’s one memorable moment that stands out, but to me, it’s a bit like asking someone to recall a single instance where all five physical senses worked in perfect harmony. They’re always engaged simultaneously, always active—whether I’m doing a reading or simply moving through life.
So, while I can’t pinpoint one singular moment, I can say that in every reading, all of those faculties—mediumship, intuition, clairsenses—are working together. It’s a continuous process, and for me, it’s just the natural way this work unfolds.
You mentioned that you had to hide your abilities for fear of being judged due to your family’s religious beliefs and your father’s mental illness. How did you navigate this internal and external conflict, and what advice do you have for others facing similar challenges?
One of the most difficult challenges in my life has been navigating the tension between who I am and how my family, particularly my mother, responded to that. For a long time, there was a profound sense of disconnection, largely rooted in fear. What hurt the most was realizing that the people I loved were sometimes afraid of me—not because of anything I did, but because they didn’t understand what I could see or sense, or where it was all coming from.
Judgment, I’ve come to understand, is often just a projection of fear. And that fear can show up in many ways—hostility, silence, exclusion. In my experience, much of it stemmed from the uncertainty around what I knew or could perceive. Most people don’t want their secrets seen, even unintentionally, and that made some deeply uncomfortable. There was also fear that perhaps I was mentally unwell like my father was believed to be—though the more I’ve learned about him, the more I question that narrative. At one point, there were even fears that I was “working with the devil,” which, believe it or not, still comes up occasionally.
To move through all of this, I had to prove something—not to others, but to myself. I needed to know that what I was experiencing was real, that it was not born of delusion or darkness. So I began to share messages in grief support groups, messages that couldn’t be explained away—detailed memories, names, events, and even future happenings that would later come to pass. That external validation grounded me. It confirmed that this wasn’t my imagination, and it certainly wasn’t anything malevolent. It was a gift—one that could comfort and heal.
Over time, as I came into deeper acceptance of who I am and how I serve, other people’s judgments began to matter less. I learned to meet my family’s fear with compassion rather than defensiveness. I no longer needed to explain myself or prove anything. I simply stopped being shaken by their discomfort.
In a world that often pressures us to fit a mold or hide parts of ourselves, choosing to stand fully in your truth is not easy—but it is essential. We must be willing to be who we are, unapologetically. That, I’ve found, is the real work.
Your volunteer work includes supporting grief groups and working with organizations like Wounded Warriors and law enforcement. How do you approach these sensitive situations with compassion and integrity, especially when providing information from the spirit world?
First and foremost, I rely deeply on the spirit world. My work is grounded in a conscious choice to connect only with what, for lack of a better term, we might call “heaven”—the realm of divine love, compassion, and forgiveness. I don’t engage with lower vibrational or earthbound spirits, though I may encounter them occasionally in specific cases such as murders or suicides. Even then, I don’t draw my messages from those energies. The communication I receive always comes from a higher source, and I trust that relationship implicitly. That trust in the energy I connect with is the cornerstone of my work.
When working with grief support groups or in collaboration with law enforcement, the environment is often rooted in science rather than spirituality or religion. These are communities that require evidence—data, facts, verifiable information. So my approach shifts accordingly. I focus on delivering messages that can be recognized, validated, and, when possible, applied to ongoing research or investigations. I’m fortunate to have a background in areas like psychology, which allows me to navigate these conversations with credibility and sensitivity.
In the end, it all comes down to communication. Whether I’m speaking with someone grounded in science or someone seeking spiritual understanding, I adjust how I present the information while maintaining the integrity of the message. It’s not about changing the truth—it’s about honoring the language each person understands.
As an “Endorsed Research Medium,” you participate in scientific studies researching life after death. What motivates you to contribute to these studies, and what do you hope to achieve through your involvement?
My motivation from the very beginning has always been to prove—especially to skeptics—that people like me, and the abilities we have, are real. We’re not frauds or scammers, and we’re certainly not mentally ill. That drive originally came from wanting to prove myself to my own family, to show them that what I experience is genuine. I never went out searching for opportunities; they came to me. People heard stories about what I could do and invited me to speak to their groups. One door opened another, and suddenly I found myself in spaces like grief support groups, healing circles, and even with law enforcement.
Over time, my motivation shifted toward something greater: to show the scientific community, the grief community, and the broader public that there is real value in intuition—and in people like me. That our work can serve healing. That it can be used with good, clear, loving intention.
I’ve always seen this disconnect—science fighting with religion, like two hands pushing against one another instead of working together. My perspective has never been about choosing one side. To me, it’s about integration. Like the left and right hand working in unison to build something. I believe we are more powerful, more intelligent, and more capable of true healing and problem-solving when we combine intuitive intelligence with logical intelligence.
Modern culture often pits those two realms—science and intuition—against each other, but I’ve always tried to show that they’re not mutually exclusive. In the classes I teach, I emphasize this integration. I’ve hoped that by working with science, I could offer the evidence it needs to consider embracing people like me. And by working with religious and spiritual individuals, I could help them see that this work is of God—that it comes from a higher, loving source and can strengthen faith, not threaten it.
Too often, it feels like we’re still living in the shadow of a Salem witch trial mindset. But I’ve seen change. I’ve worked all over the world, including 12 years in Japan, where I encountered many Buddhist and Shinto practitioners. Compared to Western cultures—particularly where my ancestry lies, in Germanic, Latin, and English traditions—I found the East to be far more open. In places like Japan, China, and Korea, people are often more able to integrate spiritual practice into even highly technological societies.
In the West, particularly in Christian communities, I’ve seen a divide. About half the people I’ve worked with who identify as Christian are very open, and half are not. But I do think that’s shifting. More people are beginning to see that spirituality and science don’t have to be at odds, and that this kind of work can be a bridge—not a wedge.
My mission has always been to open minds, to bring healing, and to help unify these seemingly opposing worlds. Because when we stop seeing them as opposites and start allowing them to support each other, that’s where real growth and transformation can happen.
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