Talking to dead people is just an average day for Theresa Caputo. The Long Island, New York, housewife/medium doesn’t know why she’s been given this gift, but she certainly is using it as best as she can. Caputo is a psychic medium who spends her days and evenings helping people find closure and connecting them to loved ones they have lost.
She’s never read a spiritual book. Doesn’t watch all those “I see dead people” movies. Nor does she follow paranormal stories or other mediums.
“I’m a very sheltered person,” she tell us.
Caputo’s built her business on reputation alone and has a waiting list that starts taking new appointments first in January 2013. And the wait is only going to get longer.
TLC cameras capture her work in a new series titled Long Island Medium. I caught up with Caputo to discuss her new series and what it’s like to be a psychic medium. Despite the interruption from my deceased mother [see separate blog Theresa Caputo talks to my dead mother], Caputo was forthcoming with her gift and how’s she sharing it with others.
Discovering her gift began with the feeling of not belonging… “I was in therapy. The therapist would tell me ‘Theresa there’s nothing wrong with you.’ And I’d say, ‘I don’t feel right.” I always had this feeling of I didn’t feel right. Like I didn’t belong. I can’t explain it, it was like something is missing. I have my parents. I still have grandparents from the physical world. I had the most amazing childhood so blessed to have the family I have. My husband survived a brain tumor. I have two beautiful children so you would think that I have it all, why would you feel something is missing? It was my spiritual gift. It was my spiritual journey and path that I was missing. It had to do with my soul. It had nothing to do with anything else. Because once I accepted my gift that feeling went away. And I had that feeling for most of my life but could never understand it.”
Accepting and understanding her gift was a journey… “I had been suffering from anxieties for many years, went to many doctors and things like that. My mom had asked her friend who is a spiritual healer to work on me, do a little healing energy to try and figure out what was going on and she had immediately picked up it was spirits. It was spirits trying to communicate to me, so I immediately became freaked out by that. ‘What do you mean? How could that be?’ I struggled for many years going back and forth with it. I attended a spiritual class where I learned what was happening to me and they were showing me how to communicate through a spirit.”
Caputo feels and hears spirits… “For me I feel spirit. I don’t see the way we see here in the physical world. When I say I hear them I can’t explain it. I hear them but I really don’t. It’s more like a feeling for me. What was happening to me was that I could be in a store and I could be standing next to a woman and her husband passed of a heart attack. I would feel as if someone was laboring my breath, like I couldn’t breath. That’s my symbol for someone passing by the heart, chest, lung area when they labor my breathing. So that was happening to me and I didn’t know what that was. I’d be in the store and all of a sudden I couldn’t breathe for no reason. So what I learned through meditation was what the feelings meant. You’ll even see me now, if I do a reading, I take a gasp for air and I won’t freak out I’ll ask who passed from the chest and you can actually see them labor my breathing.”
For more information on how to contact Theresa Caputo, see related blog.
Caputo experiences how a person died… “They will bring me through their passing. So if someone has a question of someone’s passing, I’ll say to them ‘Look, do you really want to know what happened because they’re going to bring me through it and I’m going to have to go through it? I’ll kind of feel certain things, so if there was a blow to the head, for a split second, I’ll feel like someone whacked me in the back of the head. I can’t explain it, It’s odd. It’s not scary because I know what it is now, but I’m able to control it now. I know what the symbols and signs mean.”
It took Caputo a long time to say “I’m a medium”… “Really to be honest with you, the past two years I really started feeling comfortable that when people ask me what do I do for a living that I say ‘I’m a medium.’ You say that to people and right away they think I’m a fortune teller or I’m reading their mind or I know what they’re thinking. It’s not like that. It took me a long time. There would be people I’d say that to and they would be like ‘Oh, that’s weird” or ‘She’s a weirdo, I’m not talking to her.’ It’s a topic of conversation but people are uncomfortable with death. It took me a long time to say ‘I’m a medium’ or to hand out my business card to people.”
Spirits reach out to people who need them… “It amazes me for every reading I do. People who come to the events that I host and they aren’t expecting to be read, and they are the first ones that get read. You know. Because it’s always about what we need. … What I learned about being a medium — people leave the physical world a lot of times in a very tragic way and we might be wondering if they are at peace. Or if they are OK. What a beautiful gift of knowing they are at peace, and I don’t think you can put a price on peace and comfort, you can’t.”
Caputo considers herself a vessel for the spirits… “I really don’t think it’s me. I really believe I’m just a vessel that allows them to do it. A lot of times a spirit will just validate for the person I’m reading what’s going on around them, what they are experiencing is real. And here I am able to validate that for them. I’m just a vessel that can validate for them that they are still with us.”
It’s hard for Caputo to shut it off… “Technically, I could turn it off if I choose but how do you, it’s there, it’s just who I am. And that’s just how I look at it.”
Spirits don’t always take their turns, a lot can come at her at a time…“Well you know what, that’s what just happened. You kind of just bounce back and forth until they kind of get settled. Sometimes the people I’m reading are nervous. Sort of a lot of little things before we get started. Yes, things can get confused, and more than one souls do speak at one time. And you kind of got to settle them down a little bit.”
And, yes Channel Guide readers, spirits do hear you!… “Oh yeah, they hear me. They hear you!”
Communicating back to spirits has it challenges… “Umm, I know this is going to sound stupid but I can’t tell you. It just happens. How did this happen? I didn’t ask for what happened. It just happens. I know that sounds silly but like I don’t physically say, and you can witness it through the way I read, I don’t go ‘OK, wait a minute, let me ask them this. I may say ‘wait a minute’ because I’m telling them ‘you sit down, you go to the back to the room, you step forward.’ It’s almost just a subconscious thing that happens that I do. To be honest with you, I cannot explain it. I can’t. This is just the way that I am. It just happens.”
For more information on how to contact Theresa Caputo, see related blog.
I’ve watched your show and I’m interested in a reading; however, I don’t know where to go or whom to contact locally in Milwaukee. Do you have any advice as to whom I can seek for advice for a credible medium? Thank you for your attention and time.
Hi my name is Margarita I just started to see your show and Iwant to see how can I make an oppointment with you my mother passed away 18 years ago and I have unanswered questions to the point that I dont have peace. please answer me back Ill do what ever it takes to get to you for a reading please Ineed closure in my life. god bless you.
Theresa,
I watch your show every week and I LOVE IT!! I never miss an episode and watch all of the reruns too! Thank you for sharing your amazing gift with the world and allowing us to join you on your journey. It is truly touching to watch you every week. Lots of Love!
-Courtney from Indiana
Hello Theresa!
I just started watching your show and I know you are just what I need. I’m a 28 year old female who is in a lot of pain. Pain that has effected my whole life. Please let me know how I can arrange a meeting, I’m in the Military and on a fix income with 3 children. I really could use your help. In the name of God, please tell me how and how much. Thanks Theresa and I pray I hear from you, a agent or someone. God has truly blessed you with this amazing gift and believe me you have the power to completely change my life and end a lot of hurt that as effected me for over 13 years. Closure Is Long overdue. I need peace and comfort back in my life. I’m struggling Theresa Soo please please please help me!
Ashleigh Parker
Dear Therea I sent a message for myself earlier but in reality I really am concerned about my older bother that lives in Chicago, Illinois. The reason for my concern is because I know he is closer to death than me, and he blames himself for our odopted fathers death in 1977!! I still miss my Dad always, but my brother will take this accident to his grave, and I really want him to have some kind of peace about this accident that happened concerning our great father!! Our Father wasn’t there for us like we would of liked, but we both knew he loved us unconditionially…He will for ever and always be our loving father no matter blood or not…He loved both of us, regardless if we where adopted or not… I look forward to meeting him and our mom as well when we die…They loved both of us so very very much, and it was unconditional love…My adopted brother and myself loves our MOM and DAD forever and always no matter what…We both need closure to this situation that took place in our younger lives!!! Love your children forever and always!!! Your Son and Daughter forever Mom and Dad!!
I would love to have Teresha help with a very difficult passing in my life!!! I still am having tremendous problems with multi passings in my life!! I need some answers someday, so I can move forward in life finally!!
Sincere, thanks
Paula
Hi we really need your help at this time..
I need to know if we can afford to have you come over our house but we really need your help asap.
Please email
Thank you so much..
I really need you … My husband passed away 3 yrs 8 months and I can’t move forward … My life keeps spiraling in a downward motion … I have so many unanswered questions please help me ….
I always make sure I WATCH YOUR SHOW ON THE SUNDAYS THAT I AM NOT WORKING. I WAS AT MY MOTHERS SIDE WHEN SHE PASSED AWAY BUT FEEL LIKE SHE WAS HAVING A HARD TIME LEAVING US. I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO KNOW THAT SHE IS AT PEACE AND HAS REUNITED WITH MY FATHER WHO PASSED AWAY 14 YEARS BEFORE SHE DID. IF YOU ARE EVER IN THE HOUSTON, TEXAS AREA I WOULD LOVE TO ATTEND. YOU ARE SUCH A KIND, CARING PERSON & I APPRECIATE YOUR WONDERFUL GIFT.
I watch your show and I have felt a need to contact you, as I believe my Mom, Melinda Rogers and Margie Jackson want to reach me. I’ve felt the presence of both and I want to know if they are OK and do they forgive me for the life style I was living upon their passing. I miss my Mom Melinda Rogers terribly and my mother Margie Jackson, well we never really had a real relationship without argument. Can you you please help me with this? I will appreciate anything you may have to offer or arrangements that can be made.
Theresa,
You and your family are beautiful. I love watching the show and I’m grateful that spirit and your family has decided to share you and your gift with all of us. You are an amazing soul.
I have heard great things of your show. People I know feel you are talking to them, when they watch. I live in Indiana.I hope to watch your show Sunday. I miss my parents a lot, even though I know they are ok.moms been gone for almost 8yrs. Dads been gone almost 2yrs.they have ways of looking after me still, not as much since I got engaged. Thanks for helping so many people
Dear Theresa,
Thank you. I meditate on gratitude, and I’m grateful for you.
James
Thank you so much for being apart of our lives, I watch you all the time and NEVER miss if I do happen to miss one show, I feel lost. I wish I had your gift so I could talk to my pass loved ones only a few anyway. Again thank you for coming into our homes and showing us life does keep going on outside this great big world called EARTH……hugs
Hey my name is Sharon and I watch and love your show on Sunday’s on TLC. I would love to have you to visit me in NORTH CAROLINA to perform a reading with my family. I have just lost my sister/ best friend a year ago June, she past only 36 years young of colon cancer, she left behind 3 kids ages now 18,12,5 . I have been going through a lot with my immediate family that I have now distant myself from them. My life has also change tremendous,I now have my sisters kids to raise along with my in 3 children. It has been hard to handle all the changes where I now see a therapist and in depression medication. Now her oldest daughter has rebelled against me and moved out..I just want know if im doing the right thing in raising her kids and just want to talk to her. PLEASE HELP ME IN NORTH CAROLINA!! :'(
Theresa,
Hi my name is dana i am from Midland MI i watch you show all the time I was going to see if you can help my mom an i about my grandma but dont have money to do it we wont to know if she is okay we fill that she is not at pice place my mom needs to know an my family.
Hi Theresa, just wondering if you can help our family out, my brother has been missing for a lil over 2 months we don’t know if he’s alive or dead he was kidnapped on July 28 we need closure please help!!
I am 45 yrs old. my mom died when my first daughter was born. Since then I have had another daughter and twins. my life is empty without her and always has been. She died on her birthday and my first born was only three weeks old. I had pre-eclampsia so when she called lonely I could not be there. When she had her heart transplant she held on for three weeks then I was called to discontinue ressucitavie means. It broke my heart. I live in Massachusetts and my mom lives in Montreal QUE. Please let me know she is ok and with family. I NEED CLOSURE
\i was wondering how you developed your skills. my daughter has abilities that are very accurate but she doesnt know if she is crazy or psychic. Words come out of her mouth that are meaningful but they dont come out of her brain first, sentences just pop out. She has seen spirits ever since she was 16 and remembers her past life. Its like a flash of video and she puts them together. How does she go about honing her skills and stop second guessing herself. She has been told by a few psychics that she was psychic. help please……
I would really enjoy a session with you theresa, im sure you would find my readings quite unique.