There are several different types of empaths, though they could all fall into the category of psychic empaths.

The difference is the way they receive information from other people’s feelings. Some picked them up from objects, some sensed them from people around them. Some help to heal people by working with their subject’s feelings and energy.

1. Emotional – Feels others’ emotions as your own. 

2. Physical/Medical – Feel others physical pain in your body/healing energy. 

3. Intuitive/Claircognizant – Knowing without being told. 

4. Animal – Communication with animals through any of Clair-senses.

5. Clairaudience – Hearing tones or words. 

6. Telepathic – Read minds in common parlance or any other the Clair-senses.

7. Plant – Communication with plants through any of Clair-senses. 

8. Geometric/Environmental/Earth – – Communication with the earth through any of Clair-senses/energy/signals. 

9. Spiritual

10. Clairsentience – knowing through touch or objects. 

11. Synesthesia – Multiple senses working together.    

12. Clairvoyance – Seeing lights, images, colors.  

13. Heyoka – Indigenous Peoples