Woodbury Psychic Accepts Her Abilities, Helps Others

It was a “horrible” and “frightening” and “extraordinary” experience for Maureen Allan.

About seven years ago, the Woodbury resident says she was visited by her spirit guides, guardian angel and the ghost of her dead father over a two-month period.

The translucent figures confirmed an inkling she’d long held: she has psychic abilities.

“They said that it was time for me to accept my abilities and go forward to help people,” she said.

, doing readings, helping people connect with long lost relatives, addressing issues with ghosts in their homes, and assisting others wrestling with their own psychic abilities.

It’s no longer frightening for Allan to communicate with spirits. Instead, it’s a joyful experience to open people up to the “gifts, benefits and rewards of communicating with the other side,” she said.

“It’s extremely rewarding,” Allan said.

As a youngster, Allan can remember arguing with her brother about who should pick up the phone: she seemed to know when the call would be for him.

She said she was often a step ahead, finishing people’s thoughts or sentences.

“I would just say things before they would happen and not know I how I knew it,” Allan said.

It was often puzzling, she said, but she has since learned how to manage her abilities.

After that seminal two-month period, Allan said she went to a well-known Twin Cities medium, Echo Bodine.

“It took a lot of courage to go,” she said. “I thought about turning back. But when I wanted to push the break, (her spirit guides) pushed the gas.”

Allan said she then started doing readings, which people found to be very accurate. Others would contact her—all her customers come via word of mouth—and she started doing it regularly.

“You’re born with the abilities,” Allan said.

Allan has worked in the field professionally for the past five years and has an office in the building on Valley Creek Road. She sees about a dozen people a week and sometimes works over the phone.

She has also been involved with missing-person cases and done psychic detective work, though Allan wouldn’t divulge which cases or which agencies she’s worked with.

There is no typical customer, said Allan, 44, who has lived in Woodbury for the past 12 years. People from across the Midwest contact her for readings, and she has customers from California and New York who reach out to her when they’re in town.

When people call her about ghosts in their homes, Allan says she can help the spirits get to heaven.

“I have a view to another dimension that allows me to confirm if spirits have shifted and moved from that space or have stayed in that space,” she said.

Her work often brings closure for people who want to communicate with deceased relatives or provides insight for those looking to learn about their lives and where they’re headed, Allan said.

People typically have to have their own supernatural encounter before they open up, Allan said. Only then will they realize “that we live amongst the other side on a daily basis.”

“It’s your choice to believe or your choice to deny and discount,” she said.

Allan said her clairvoyance is intended to help people. “It isn’t for personal curiosity.”

“It’s to gain a better clarity about their life is truly about,” she said.

Some people are nervous before a reading, she said.

“It ends up being a much more inspiring, helpful and loving experience,” she said. “It’s the furthest thing from negative or scary.”

While Allan says she can glimpse into the future—“I predicted Obama right away,” she said—it’s not so she can find out who will win a Timberwolves game.

“It’s not for gambling purposes,” she said.

But she does channel her spirit guides for things like planning pool parties—making sure the event falls on a day with nice weather.

Mediums are “like everybody else,” Allan said. “We have a different mission than the majority of people.”

And there are boundaries. “There’s not a spy camera going in on everything.”

“I’m actually very normal, but in a very unusual way,” she said.