Animals have always been central to my life — not just as companions, but as teachers, mirrors, and deeply feeling beings whose inner worlds deserve to be heard.

HI, I’M TAMI

My career began in corporate marketing, much of it in the film industry. While creatively fulfilling in many ways, I eventually felt called toward work that aligned more directly with my values. That calling led me into nonprofit animal advocacy, where I served as Communications Director for Pasado’s Safe Haven, one of the largest animal sanctuaries in the United States dedicated to ending animal cruelty.

There, I helped tell the stories of animals rescued from neglect, abuse, and exploitation — and I spent countless quiet moments simply being with them. Those experiences changed me profoundly.

Lily — My Heart and My Teacher

Shortly before I began working at the sanctuary, seventy-two dogs were rescued from a severe hoarding situation. One of them, an American Foxhound named Lily, came into my home as a foster.

She never left.

Lily carried profound trauma and lived with what I confidently recognize as PTSD. Because I navigate PTSD myself, I understood her language — the hypervigilance, the need for safety, the delicate pacing of healing.

She taught me patience in its purest form.
She taught me reverence for nervous systems.
She taught me how sacred healing truly is.

And ultimately, she guided me to this work.

Even now, after her physical passing in July 2023, our connection continues. I communicate with her regularly and feel her presence in both subtle and unmistakable ways. The bond remains — just expressed differently.

Everything I offer today exists, in part, because of her.

The Work I Offer Now

I specialize in:

  • Pet medium readings for animals in spirit

  • Trauma-informed animal communication for living companions

  • Reiki energy support for sensitive or healing animals

My work is particularly devoted to rescue animals, laboratory survivors, and those navigating emotional trauma or PTSD. These animals are often misunderstood. I aim to help guardians see beneath behavior to the emotional truth.

Sessions are grounded, compassionate, and guided by what each animal chooses to share.

animal communicator, tami seegrist mcminn and her beloved dog lily

Training & Professional Development

My approach combines lived experience, intuitive development, and formal study with respected teachers in animal communication, mediumship, psychic development and Reiki energy work.

I have studied with:

  • Polly Klein (Assisi Institute–trained Animal Communicator)

  • Daniel MacKinnon School of Soul Level Animal Communication

  • Anita Denise, Advanced Spiritual Master Teacher

  • Penelope Smith, pioneer in modern animal communication

  • Nancy Windheart, All Species Reiki

  • Lisa Williams, The Psychic Medium Training Academy

  • James Van Praagh, School of Mystical Arts

Training is important — but equally important to me is humility, ongoing learning, and deep listening.

Why This Work Matters to Me

I believe animals are sentient, emotionally complex beings whose voices deserve space.

I believe trauma changes nervous systems — human and non-human alike.
I believe continuing bonds exist beyond physical presence.
And I believe healing happens when we listen deeply.

This is not just what I do.

It is how I live.

If you feel called to connect, I would be honored to work with you.

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My Ethos

HONORING THE INDIVIDUALITY OF ALL BEINGS

SANCTITY

In every session, I am invited into something sacred — the space between grief and love, between this world and the next. People arrive heartbroken, carrying private things — relationships, families, fears, and the profound love they shared with an animal who is no longer in their body. I hold that as the privilege it is.

What happens in that space stays there. I will never reach into our most sacred moments together to gain followers or book more readings. When I share stories from this work, I do so to illuminate something beautiful — that they are still with us, that love continues, that the other side is not as far as it seems. Never to capture a reaction. Never to go viral. Never to sensationalize what is sacred.

The takeaway from our time together should always be the same: your loved one is not truly gone. That is enough. That is everything. And it is yours to keep.

REVERENCE

I stand in complete awe of spirit.

When souls return to the other side, they recall everything — every life they have ever lived, every moment of love they have ever shared with you. They are not bound by time the way we are. They do not experience loss the way we do. On the other side, they are whole, expansive, and luminous — more themselves than we can begin to imagine.

We have lived with them before. We will live with them again. The bond you share did not begin when they came into your life and it did not end when they left their body. It is ancient. It is continuous. It is love in its purest and most unconditional form — a love so vast that we have barely scratched the surface of understanding it.

They are not gone. They are not waiting. They are here, all around us, eternal and undiminished.

I do not take lightly the privilege of standing at that threshold. I approach it the only way I know how — with reverence.

TRUST

Trauma, fear, and misunderstanding never diminish an animal's worth — they deepen our responsibility to meet them with patience, compassion, and reverence. When I work with a traumatized animal, everything begins with trust — theirs in me. Before we can go anywhere, they need to know I am safe. That I won't push. That I won't intrude. That I am simply a friend of mom or dad, here to help.

Only when that trust is established do we go deeper — gently exploring their history, their fears, and what might help them feel more safe and comfortable in their world. They lead. I listen. And when they cannot speak for themselves, I am their voice.