About
Lesley Ames
“A devotion to the unseen intelligence of nature and animals”
My dog Stanley waited years for me to truly listen. Now I’m a certified animal communicator, pet psychic, and psychic medium in the Seattle area, working with people and their animals worldwide by Zoom or phone. This is how I got here.
I started my career in design and marketing, work that had to be clear and also felt. Something was missing, though. Not broken, just incomplete, like a story that hadn’t found its next chapter yet.
So I started exploring. Going deep, not just far: silent meditation retreats in Thailand, hiking mountains I had no business climbing in Albania, camping under open sky in Morocco, standing humbled in the Galápagos. The more of the world I saw, the more I met myself. Then photography arrived, a way of seeing I’d always had but hadn’t claimed. And immersing in nature, wild things, and the silence within. Each doorway asked me to trust what I could not explain.
Stanley was waiting through all of it. Not impatiently, but waiting for me to arrive at listening. What followed was years of clairvoyant and psychic training, mediumship, astral and shamanic healing, and animal communication, including certification with Penelope Smith, a pioneer of interspecies communication. I followed the intuitive thread wherever it led.
Now I sit on the other side of that listening.
What matters most to me is presence: meeting an animal, or a person, exactly as they are. After hundreds of sessions, I’m still struck by how utterly unique each animal is, and how clearly they understand their purpose and their place in something larger. They are some of the best teachers I’ve had. Stanley led me into territory I wouldn’t have found alone.
Nothing in my path has been a detour. Each doorway, each animal, has been a way back to myself. I keep doing my own inner work, which is what lets me be fully present with you.
Every week, I walk dogs at the shelter, but what I’m really doing is listening. I write about it in What the Dogs Know and share other stories about animals and life as a psychic on my blog, From the Field.
If something here resonates, you’re welcome to say hello. I work with clients across the world, from Seattle to Turkmenistan, and everywhere in between. Distance has never mattered.
“I was guided to Lesley on a random day of scrolling, just two months after my cat Romeo passed. It was so beautiful to hear more about him — his perspective on things, and the time we shared. It gave me closure in my mourning and opened my heart to feel him walk with me every day. Thank you, Lesley, for everything.”
