About
TrueHeart’s Founder
Amanda Staab, MS, CHt — psychic medium, spiritual healing guide + certified hypnosis counselor — created TrueHeart Healing to make alternative methods more accessible.
Her journey to become a healer began more than a decade ago, when a Lenape medicine person offered to teach her. Since then, Amanda has been studying and practicing the modalities she feels most connected to and finds most effective.
Fortifying her foundation in spiritual healing, Amanda completed the two-year Ravens Drum program. She also was selected by world-renowned expert Sandra Ingerman for a one-year Advanced Shamanic Healing Practitioner Training and two-year Professional Shamanic Teacher Training.
Additionally, Amanda has been certified as a psychic medium. She studied at the College of Psychic Studies in the United Kingdom and other institutions.
Amanda also received her certification in hypnotherapy from the International Association of Counselors and Therapists.
Previously, Amanda was an award-winning journalist and earned her master’s degree at Columbia University.
Through my desire to share what has helped me heal with others who might be suffering or feeling lost, TrueHeart Healing was born.
From TrueHeart’s Founder
Early life experiences that taught me what it’s like to feel helpless and hopeless fueled my passion for supporting others through my professional work.
As a journalist, I dedicated my career to amplifying voices that had been ignored or disregarded but had very important things to say. I told the stories of everyday people with the hope of achieving positive change for them and their communities.
My articles helped a disabled woman finally get a designated parking spot in front of her urban home; a financially challenged grandmother connect with a surgeon willing to remove her life-threatening aneurysm for free; a distraught father raise much-needed funds for research on his son’s degenerative disease; and many others like them.
As a result, I garnered the reputation as a journalist who cared.
An innate knowing
One day, I received an email from a member of a local Native American tribe. He wrote that he was desperate for someone to shed light on his story. He’d already reached out to dozens of reporters in the New York metropolitan area, but no one responded. I scheduled a meeting with him and started investigating.
I spent a year interviewing different tribal members, listening to their individual stories as well as their shared history and ways. So much of what they had to say resonated deep within me and touched on what I innately knew as a child but had been told was ridiculous or not true.
At one point during an interview, I heard my heart say, ‘This is what I have been trying to tell you.’ I was finally listening and determined to continue listening. That’s when my journey began.
A desire to help
I sought the alternative healing methods that had been described to me. After the first soul retrieval I received, I felt like a different person, like the volume had been turned down on my anxiety. I was more at peace and grounded — and wondered why more people didn’t know about this.
After getting to know me and sensing my willingness to help people, one of the tribe’s healers offered to teach me. He taught me methods and techniques and the reasoning behind them, but most importantly, how to think about and approach serving others. Those lessons later became the foundation for my practice and my ethics and standards as a practitioner.
Eventually, other teachers came into my life, and I shifted my focus to core shamanism, a generalized practice of ancient, universal healing techniques that have been adapted and threaded into many different cultures around the world.
A way to share
I kept my practice private for years. I had no intention of offering spiritual healing sessions to anyone beyond my closest family and friends.
But when one of my beloved teachers became ill and asked if she could refer clients to me, I decided to embrace her encouragement and open up to others.
Around the same time, I realized I’m a natural medium and started strengthening those skills to offer clients healing in another way — by helping them connect with their loved ones in spirit.
Since then, I have expanded my practice to include hypnosis counseling, which is deeply aligned with my existing services and tremendous opportunities for healing.
A path forward
While my practice continues to grow, it remains dedicated to helping people access the wisdom and compassion of the spirit realm — as well as their own natural healing abilities — to gain the insights, guidance and progress they need to transform their lives.
