HEALING MEDIUM

It is my pleasure to offer this testimonial for Emile van der Hilst, whom I firmly consider to be one of the most gifted healers working today.

I contacted Emile several months back as a last-ditch effort to alleviate a 2-3 year long treatment-resistant depression (and related issues which were equally difficult) that had not responded to even the most advanced conventional medical treatments. I was surprised to receive an email back from Emile that same day. From the first message, he was warm and kind, very different than most doctors, medical professionals, and healers I have been to.

I’ll admit that I came to my first session with a profoundly skeptical attitude as I hadn’t had good experiences with other healers, mediums, and psychics in the past. Still, from the moment I walked into Emile’s treatment room, I felt comfortable and welcome. Within a minute or two Emile very gently and precisely pointed out the deep-seated emotional issues he saw (all of which were correct and had been mentioned to me by others recently). As he began to work on me I experienced a deep, restorative healing peace unlike anything I had ever known before. I have long been in a continually agitated state, but Emile had no trouble calming me down on every level. I lost my skepticism immediately.

Because of chronic exhaustion, I was frequently late for the first several appointments. I was surprised to find that Emile was always in a good mood and never thrown off-center by my tardiness. Given how much trouble I was having at the time, I deeply appreciated (and still appreciate) his patience with me. It was very refreshing. What’s more, Emile worked very efficiently during those sessions, somehow compressing a full sessions’s worth of healing into sometimes less than half a typical session. It’s only in retrospect that I realize how generous and extraordinary this was. Although everyone’s experience will be different, in my experience, those first few (short) sessions were enough to cure me of a very difficult issue I thought I would never be able to resolve.

When I told Emile about my healing experience, he didn’t take any credit. He simply expressed his happiness for me. His humility was obviously genuine and profound. I was humbled by his humility! For someone to turn down credit for such a beautiful healing — all I can say is that only a very special person can do that and mean it, the way Emile did.

From the first session, Emile made me feel completely comfortable both in conversation and during the treatment — a feeling which is very unusual for me. Every time I see him, it’s like seeing a very good friend. Like any master healer, Emile has clear boundaries, which he maintains with admirable tact and kindness. And yet, you still feel and know that you’re talking to someone who truly cares about your wellbeing and will be there to help in difficult moments. You get the clear sense that Emile cares about your wellbeing far outside of session and this his ultimate goal is your maximum health and happiness. He also has an extraordinary gift for making you feel heard. When you talk to him, you get his full attention. Rarely have I met a doctor or therapist — or anyone else — who listens as deeply as Emile does. As I often see him towards the end of the day, I’ve expected to see him work at less than 100%. But this has never been the case: Emile always gives 100% of himself to our conversations and the treatment.  ,

I could write so much more, so for the sake of brevity, I’ll offer some bullet points about Emile and my experience with him:

• His sessions somehow always target exactly what I need (even if I may want something else). Because of this, I keep seeing improvement.

• There’s never any feeling of judgement. Though I’m sure he has considerable insight into what originally caused any issue being treated, I’ve never felt like he was blaming me for my problems (even though blame could have been easily justified). Rather, I’ve always felt like he sees the problem as it is right now, and works with you with great compassion to achieve lasting healing. Though he may reveal a bit of information about potential causes of your issues, he’s always judicious in what he says and how he says it, and does so for your benefit.

• When possible, he offers deep insights, but without being dogmatic or arrogant. When it’s not possible, he tells you so very clearly.

• He always points to your own abilities to self-heal and your own capacity to be and do more; he never encourages unhealthy dependence on him, but rather gently pushes you to have justified confidence in yourself. To the best of my understanding, Emile’s philosophy is that all healing is self-healing, and he’s there to help facilitate that self-healing as efficiently as possible. That’s a philosophy I can subscribe to.

• That being said, if the issue takes more than a few sessions to resolve or get significantly better, he’s incredibly patient and never gives up on you. He helps you stay focused on meaningful goals and steady progress.

• Emile is deeply ethical in how he uses his considerable gifts. It’s clear that he treats everyone with dignity and respect, without exception, whether he knows them or not.

In sum, Emile is truly a master healer: warm, compassionate, caring, empathetic, grounded, balanced, humble, ethical, and profoundly effective. He’s taken his innate gifts and has honed them with decades of hard work and focused discipline (and continues to hone them as time passes) — a rarity in modern society. I consider myself extraordinarily lucky to have met him. Without hesitation, I would encourage anyone who’s considering doing so to reach out to Emile. You won't regret it.

S. Shome