Medium Colleen LaBorde melds the physical and spiritual world at the Medium Studio on Line Avenue.

Medium Colleen LaBorde connects with clients’ loved ones to provide solace

Colleen LaBorde, a retired pharmacist, is a medium now working to help the community.

“I have worked to hone my skills over the years as a spiritual medium to bring through detailed evidence, or very accurate and precise information in my sessions and groups communicated to me by loved ones that have passed on,” she says on her website. “My goal is to ensure that my clients know without a doubt that I am connecting with their loved ones in spirit while bringing forth relevant and meaningful messages and musings.”

You may have lost someone close to your heart and be interested in how a medium may help. LaBorde loves providing a voice for those on the other side.

As a child and throughout her adolescent years, she was very aware of subtle energy and how it interacted with her body, mind and spirit. Fascinated by the unseen world and her ability to tap into it, she was equally intrigued by the science and physical laws of the seen or manifest world in which we live. Melding these two worlds together has been the key to her ability to explore unlimited possibilities and share this journey with minds like hers.

LaBorde enjoys helping people explore their preconceived thoughts about life and death and the possibility that consciousness, or the soul, continues its journey after physical death.

She studied under notable international psychic mediums at the prestigious Arthur Findlay College in Stansted, England, and with the Rev. Janet Nohavek of “The Journey Within in New Jersey.” LaBorde traveled to both locations.

Her ongoing passion is serving the local, national and global communities as an evidential psychic medium and growing the creative community with the opening of the Medium Studio on Line Avenue. “Community is important to me,” she said, adding that she draws together “people who are interested in things other than mundane lives.”

She offers classes with creative discussions, mentors others and sees private clients. She said that some may start off reluctant to come and show up incognito due to prominent careers. This field is not readily accepted by everyone. Most clients are between 35 and 55.

LaBorde designed the studio and has an extensive collection of Rachel Stuart-Haas art.

She knows there is more to the world than meets the eye and can feel a “higher vibration.” Nothing is scary to her, and it’s not like people are “knocking on a door or window.”

LaBorde wanted to fit in in high school but experienced a series of events that made her realize something was off-kilter in what was taught in academia. She reached out to an aunt about her extraordinary gift. Her mother, a nurse, dreamed about Sept. 11 a month before it happened, but she didn’t buy into otherworldly things, and her father didn’t talk about it.

As a child, LaBorde knew deceased people were around her. She could feel their presence and see them in her dreams.

After the suicide of her sons’ father, she felt an intense need not only to understand this death on many levels but to approach the unapproachable in her mind — our mortality as human beings. Anger, sorrow and guilt propelled her toward the exit door of her comfort zone and back to approaching the one thing constant in her life — intuitive knowing and connection to spirit.

LaBorde helps the grieving make peace with death and how it affects them. She often receives follow-up emails saying she helped people move on. “This is not me,” she emphasized. “A movement through a competent medium can initiate something through a person’s healing.”

What comes through is meant to give solace to the living, LaBorde said. Clients may be those who lost a child or another loved one and may be “having experiences they don’t know what to do with.” She stressed several times that this was not about her but about a community in need of a safe place with no judgment.

She doesn’t do many murder cases but takes them seriously. She never wants to provide false information. She is a stickler for ethics and a scientist at heart.

LaBorde lives on her family farm on Twelve Mile Bayou and credits her husband with offering emotional support.

She and Dakota Lawrence, a local clairvoyant medium, will host gallery readings on Oct. 26 from 4 to 6 p.m. The last one was a sellout. Most clients are interested in significant decisions, career moves and relationships. Lawrence said the dynamics are interesting, as LaBorde trained overseas, while his abilities were family inherited.

Visit LaBorde’s website at www.colleenlaborde.com to subscribe to updates or book a session or event. A visit just might lighten your load.