KINGFIELD – Sally Silver of Kingfield is a teacher. But she says she’s also a healer, medium and clairvoyant who uses her heightened senses to help others. She considers her self-proclaimed abilities to be a gift rather than a burden and has spent most of her life on a continued search for more knowledge.

“I’ve always been sensitive, even as a child,” Silver says. “I’ve learned to use that sensitivity as a tool throughout my own life, and later as one to help other people reach their own potentials.”

As a child growing up in Farmington, in a house built in 1783, Silver would often go to the attic where centuries of castoffs were stored. She says she would hold an item in her hand and listen to the stories it had to tell her. She also had experiences of things happening, cold spots on stairways, seeing and hearing spirits and other intuitive situations, she says. Silver says she thought everyone had these abilities, until she was older and realized that it wasn’t so.

With more than 30 years of extended study and education in psychic awareness, the 63-year-old Silver claims she has learned to control and expand her own abilities in order to teach others to get in touch with the truth in their own lives. She says she can read auras, or the energy, around people, she can sense if they have an illness, are sad, disturbed or confused.

One man who came to her for regular readings once described the experience as “a truth session,” she said.

“I live in a world of extended senses,” Silvers says. “I use those extended senses to help people get in touch with their own truth. I feel that all truth and information is encoded in light, both interior and exterior, and that it’s important to teach people to be aware of their truth and get in touch with their own lives.”

After more than 15 years in Florida, Silver returned to Maine, where she says her heart is. She works part of each week in Portland, giving readings, often to other psychics as well as others.

In Kingfield, she says she’s available for readings, teaching, group parties and lectures, and is willing to tailor her techniques to nearly any situation. She travels throughout Maine to wherever she is needed.

“I just love what I do,” Silver says. “Helping people and teaching, it’s always different, it’s never the same twice and it is such a treat for me when people get it. I enjoy seeing people happy and in touch with what they are doing in their lives.”