My Path
From healing to Healing Mediumship — and the exploration of consciousness.
I am Emile van der Hilst, a Healing Medium and the founder of The Healing Consciousness. My work is rooted in Healing Mediumship, consciousness, and creating space for healing to unfold. I offer individual healing sessions in Mount Kisco and New York City, as well as online worldwide.
Some experiences stay with us long before we understand what they mean.
From a very young age, I experienced moments that felt different from ordinary life. Around the age of eight, I had a vivid vision of myself as a healer. At night, before falling asleep, I would lie quietly in bed and allow my awareness to move beyond my room and, somehow, beyond my physical body.
At times, I could distinguish between my physical existence and a deeper sense of Self. There were moments when I felt connected with everything, beyond the familiar boundaries of time and space.
I had no words for these experiences then. I simply knew there was something more.
Only much later did I begin to understand them as early experiences of altered states of consciousness — and as the beginning of a journey that would eventually lead me to Healing Mediumship.
For a time, that journey took a very different direction.
As a teenager, I devoted myself to tennis. I loved the discipline, the movement, and the complete focus it demanded. But in my late teens, a health crisis brought that path to an abrupt stop. I had to step away from the sport I loved and from college.
It was a difficult turning point, but it also changed the direction of my life.
As my health gradually returned, I became a certified tennis coach and spent several years working with players of all ages and levels. At the same time, something deeper was beginning to call my attention.
I became increasingly fascinated by healing.
Not simply by treating symptoms, but by understanding the body as an intelligent whole — and by what becomes possible when we create the conditions for healing rather than trying to force it.
I began studying craniosacral therapy with the Upledger Institute, together with visceral and neural manipulation through the work of French osteopath J. P. Barral.
In 2004, I opened my own private practice.
These approaches taught me to listen differently. To become quieter. To pay attention to what the body was communicating rather than simply trying to make something happen.
And slowly, my understanding of healing began to change.
Then, another door opened.
In 2013, I followed an inner calling to the Arthur Findlay College in England, a spiritualist college dedicated to mediumship, psychic sciences, and healing.
There, I experienced a profound encounter with the Spirit World.
During a practice known as Sitting in the Power, I also experienced something deeply familiar. As my mind became still, I felt myself move beyond the awareness of my physical body and reconnect with a deeper sense of who I was.
It was as though I had returned to something I had known as a child.
Not discovering something new, but returning to who I had always been.
There was a profound sense of peace, freedom, and connection. A feeling of being part of something greater, beyond the familiar boundaries of my everyday existence.
These experiences were difficult to explain in ordinary terms, but something in me recognized them.
My understanding of life, death, consciousness, and healing shifted. What had once been a series of unusual experiences began to make sense within a much larger picture.
I realized that healing was not something I needed to create through my own will.
It was something I could learn to become available to.
Since then, I have continued to study Spiritualist healing through the Spiritualists' National Union (SNU) and to develop my Healing Mediumship.
Over time, the work has become less about doing and more about being.
Becoming still.
Listening.
Attuning.
Opening to the Spirit World and to the intelligence of the Divine.
Allowing healing to unfold.
Where I am today
Looking back, I can see that the different chapters of my life were not as separate as they once seemed.
The child who sensed something beyond the physical.
The tennis player learning discipline and focus.
The person whose own health crisis changed his direction.
The practitioner learning to listen to the intelligence of the body.
And the Healing Medium learning to become an instrument for something greater.
They were all part of the same journey.
Today, my work is a continuation of that journey.
I offer one-to-one healing sessions, both in person in Mount Kisco and New York City and online worldwide. I also offer The Healing Activation Method™ — a deeper path for those who want to explore a more conscious relationship with their inner awareness and the deeper intelligence of life.
It is also this journey that led me to found The Healing Consciousness.
What began as my own exploration of consciousness has gradually become a desire to create opportunities for others to explore their own.
I believe we are more than our physical bodies, our thoughts, and the identities we have formed throughout our lives.
Through The Healing Consciousness, my intention is to bring people closer to that possibility — not simply through understanding or belief, but through their own direct experience.
To discover who they are, beyond who they think they are.
My intention remains simple:
To create space for healing, awareness, and connection.
To meet each person exactly where they are.
And to remain open to whatever becomes possible when we become still enough to listen.
Everyone is welcome here — regardless of background, beliefs, or life circumstances.