What is the difference between a psychic and a medium?

"Medium" is actually a very specific and narrow term, and it gets thrown around so loosely these days that it's worth taking a moment to define it properly.

A medium communicates with beings who were once incarnate and are now discarnate—meaning, they were alive in a physical body, and now they're not. In other words, mediums talk to spirit people: people on the other side, loved ones who have passed, or, to put it plainly, dead people. And yes, animals too.

That's it. That's the lane.

Pretty much everything else falls under the umbrella of psychic.

A psychic expands their consciousness into whatever area information is needed—the future, the past, relationships, circumstances, living beings, and energies around a situation.

For example, I can tune into the living people in your life, your own energy field, and your higher self. I can also communicate with living animals (I speak with many horses, dogs, and cats, but also reptiles). I can tune into your spirit guides, nature spirits, and all manner of entities that exist outside the physical, too.

That distinction is the key. Mediumship is specifically about those who lived and died in a body. If the being never had a body, or still has one, that's psychic work — not mediumship.

The simplest way I know to remember it: every medium is psychic, but not every psychic is a medium.