About
Meet Erica Barretto
Journey to Mediumship & Connecting with sprit
Welcome to Awakening Insights™
I'm Erica Barretto, a professional psychic medium, spiritual teacher, and the heart behind Awakening Insights LLC. Here, we offer more than just services, we offer a sacred space for healing, clarity, and soul-level transformation.
At Awakening Insights, you'll find a range of offerings including mediumship readings, intuitive tarot sessions, spiritual guidance, and comprehensive development courses. Whether you’re seeking connection with a loved one in spirit, intuitive insight into your current path, or support navigating spiritual challenges, my work is grounded in compassion, authenticity, and integrity.
I specialize in evidential mediumship, bringing through clear, validating messages from spirit, and I’m passionate about helping others develop their own abilities. That’s why I also teach mediumship and intuitive development through small, powerful group programs tailored for beginners, intermediate, and advanced students. Each course is designed to strengthen your connection to spirit, build confidence, and empower you to work with energy ethically and effectively.
Whether you're here to receive guidance or to awaken your own intuitive gifts,
I’m honored to walk beside you on your journey.
What to Expect from a Session with Me
Whether you’re coming in for a mediumship reading, an intuitive tarot session, spiritual guidance, or a past life psychic reading, every service I offer is held in a compassionate, safe, and grounded space. My intention is to deliver messages that are not only validating and accurate but also empowering and uplifting. You can expect honesty, integrity, and a clear connection, without judgment or pressure. Spirit leads the way, and I follow with an open heart and intuitive clarity. No matter the session, I ask that you come with an open mind and allow the energy to unfold naturally. This creates the most authentic and healing experience possible.
Awakened Insights Academy™
​Awakened Insights Academy™ is a learning and development space dedicated to the ethical, grounded, and evidence-based development of mediumship.
The Academy offers a progressive pathway through Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Evidential Mediumship Development, allowing you to build your abilities step by step while developing greater confidence, trust, awareness, and understanding of your own unique connection with Spirit.
As an IPHM Certified Accredited Course Trainer, my courses are accredited through the International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine (IPHM) and are designed to provide both structured education and hands-on development.
What You Can Expect
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Comprehensive Course Workbooks to support and guide you throughout your development
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Weekly Assignments & Exercises designed to help integrate what is taught in class
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Practice Circles to provide opportunities to apply your skills in a supportive environment
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1:1 Mentorship Meetings to discuss your individual development, questions, strengths, and areas for continued growth
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Ongoing Guidance & Support throughout your course
One of the values I hold closest within Awakened Insights Academy™ is my open-door policy. Development is deeply personal, and questions often arise between classes. I want those learning with me to know that they have a space where they can reach out when guidance, clarification, or additional support is needed.
I truly honor every person who chooses to learn and develop through the Academy. My role is not to tell you what your mediumship should look like, but to help you understand, strengthen, and trust the way your own mediumship naturally works.
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From your first steps in Beginner Mediumship through Intermediate and Advanced development, Awakened Insights Academy™ provides a supportive pathway for developing your connection while maintaining ethics, integrity, responsibility, and respect for the Spirit world and the people we serve.
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What to Expect from My Mediumship & Psychic Development Courses
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At Awakened Insights Academy™, I am proud to have maintained a 100% course development success rate, with every student who has completed their training demonstrating the ability to establish and recognize a link with the Spirit world while gaining a deeper understanding of their own psychic, intuitive, and mediumistic abilities.
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Students are encouraged to discover how their individual abilities work, build confidence in what they receive, and develop a strong foundation rooted in evidence, ethics, integrity, and responsibility.
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Some students who have successfully completed the Advanced Evidential Mediumship Program have gone on to establish their own professional practices and businesses while continuing their education and development.
Because mediumship is a lifelong journey, completing a course is never the end. There will always be more to learn, experience, refine, and understand. My goal is to provide each student with the foundation, mentorship, tools, and confidence to continue developing long after their course is complete.