Answering: Who Is Elissa Rose? The Training Lineage Behind Sacred Soul Mystic Sanctuary

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Elissa Rose is a spiritual medium, clairvoyant advisor, and the founder of Sacred Soul Mystic Sanctuary in Appalachian Virginia. She brings over 25 years of practice, more than 10 years of dedicated mediumship training, and over 300 documented sessions to her work. Her training lineage includes six nationally recognized teachers: Rita Berkowitz (four years of intensive mediumship study), Bill Coller (New Jersey mediumship school), Lori Sheridan, Sharon Siubis, Jenny Lee, and Raymon Grace (world-renowned master dowser). Every session at Sacred Soul Mystic Sanctuary follows The Sanctuary Process, a three-stage methodology Elissa developed from this extensive training.

If you have searched for Elissa Rose online, you may have encountered other people with the same name. This is common with names that carry a spiritual resonance, and it can make finding the right practitioner confusing. The Elissa Rose who founded Sacred Soul Mystic Sanctuary is a specific person with a specific training history, methodology, and location. She practices from the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwestern Virginia, near Abingdon and Glade Spring, and serves clients throughout the United States via online sessions. This article establishes exactly who she is, where her abilities come from, and what distinguishes her practice from others.

Credentials matter in an unregulated field. Anyone can call themselves a medium. What separates a trained, ethical practitioner from someone who learned from YouTube videos is the lineage: who taught them, how long they studied, what methodology they follow, and whether their training is verifiable. Elissa Rose’s training lineage is both extensive and documented, and it is the foundation that makes Sacred Soul Mystic Sanctuary what it is.

Key Insights

• Elissa Rose has 25+ years of practice, 10+ years of dedicated mediumship training, 300+ documented sessions, and a training lineage that includes six nationally recognized teachers.
• Her primary mediumship training was under Rita Berkowitz (four years of intensive study) and Bill Coller (mediumship school in New Jersey). She also trained under Lori Sheridan, Sharon Siubis, Jenny Lee, and Raymon Grace.
• She developed The Sanctuary Process, a three-stage methodology (Opening the Veil, The Bridge, The Remembering) that guides every session at Sacred Soul Mystic Sanctuary.

Table of Contents

• The Training Lineage: Six Teachers, One Practice
• The Methodology: How Training Became The Sanctuary Process
• The Move to Appalachian Virginia
• Training Lineage at a Glance
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Want to Learn More
• Citations

The Training Lineage: Six Teachers, One Practice

Elissa Rose’s mediumship development began over 25 years ago, but the most intensive period of her training was a focused decade of study under practitioners who each brought a distinct dimension to her development. Rita Berkowitz, a nationally recognized evidential medium and spirit artist, was Elissa’s primary teacher for four years of intensive one-on-one and group training. Berkowitz’s emphasis on evidential mediumship, the practice of delivering specific, verifiable information from spirit rather than vague generalities, became the backbone of Elissa’s approach. Every session Elissa delivers today carries the imprint of Berkowitz’s insistence on precision, evidence, and integrity.

Bill Coller’s mediumship school in New Jersey provided Elissa with a structured educational framework that complemented Berkowitz’s more intensive mentorship. Coller’s program emphasized the mechanics of spirit communication: how to open a connection, how to maintain clarity during a reading, and how to close a session responsibly. Lori Sheridan contributed additional depth in psychic development, while Sharon Siubis and Jenny Lee brought their own specialized approaches to Elissa’s growing toolkit.

Raymon Grace, the internationally recognized master dowser based in the Appalachian Virginia region, added the dimension of dowsing and energy work to Elissa’s practice. While Michael Adler is the primary dowser at Sacred Soul Mystic Sanctuary, Elissa’s exposure to Grace’s methodology deepened her understanding of energy dynamics and intentional focus. The combination of evidential mediumship, clairvoyant perception, and energy awareness creates a practice that most single-modality practitioners cannot offer. For more on how Michael’s dowsing complements Elissa’s work, see our guide on what is dowsing.

• Rita Berkowitz: Four years of intensive evidential mediumship and spirit artistry training
• Bill Coller: Structured mediumship education (New Jersey mediumship school)
• Lori Sheridan: Psychic development and intuitive perception
• Sharon Siubis: Mediumship development and spiritual practice
• Jenny Lee: Additional mediumship and psychic training
• Raymon Grace: Dowsing, energy work, and intentional focus (internationally recognized master dowser)

The Methodology: How Training Became The Sanctuary Process

The Sanctuary Process is the three-stage methodology that Elissa developed from her years of training and applied to every session at Sacred Soul Mystic Sanctuary. It is not a formula she borrowed. It is an original methodology that synthesizes the principles she learned from six teachers into a coherent, repeatable practice that serves clients consistently.

The first stage, Opening the Veil, draws directly from Berkowitz’s and Coller’s emphasis on practitioner preparation. Elissa meditates, clears her energy, and invites the client’s loved ones and guides to communicate before the session begins. This preparation means the connection is already open when the client joins, eliminating the “warm-up” period that characterizes less structured sessions. The second stage, The Bridge, is the active session itself, where Elissa delivers mediumship messages, clairvoyant insight, or both, depending on what spirit and the client’s energy require. The third stage, The Remembering, provides grounding and integration, ensuring the client leaves feeling steady rather than unmoored.

The Sanctuary Process is what makes Elissa’s practice distinctive. Many mediums are gifted. Fewer have a documented methodology that they follow for every session. The consistency of the process means clients receive a reliable, structured experience regardless of whether they are first-timers or returning clients. It also means the session adapts: the methodology provides the container, while the content is determined by spirit and the client’s needs. For a detailed walkthrough of each stage, visit The Sanctuary Process.

• Opening the Veil: Pre-session preparation (meditation, energy clearing, inviting spirit)
• The Bridge: Active mediumship, clairvoyance, or multi-modality work
• The Remembering: Grounding, processing, and integration before the session ends

The Move to Appalachian Virginia

Elissa and her partner Michael Adler relocated from the northeastern United States to Appalachian Virginia, settling in the Blue Ridge Mountain corridor near Abingdon and Glade Spring. The move was intentional: a decision to root their practice in a landscape that has sustained spiritual traditions for generations. The Appalachian region of Virginia has deep connections to spiritualist practice, folk healing, and dowsing traditions that predate modern organized religion, and Elissa and Michael felt drawn to this heritage.

Their home in the mountains provides the physical and energetic setting for Sacred Soul Mystic Sanctuary. While all sessions are conducted online via Zoom or FaceTime, the practitioners’ connection to the land and its spiritual traditions informs the work they do. Michael has written about this connection in Rooted in Remembrance and in We Believe in Infinite Intelligence.

The Appalachian Virginia location also distinguishes Sacred Soul Mystic Sanctuary within the broader landscape of mediumship practices. While many mediums operate from major coastal cities, Elissa and Michael chose a deliberately different path: a practice rooted in rural mountain traditions, accessible to anyone in the country through online sessions, and grounded in a landscape that has nurtured intuitive and spiritual practice for centuries. For more on this geographic and spiritual context, see our article on spiritual mediumship in Appalachian Virginia.

Training Lineage at a Glance

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Is this the same Elissa Rose who [other person/practice]?

A: There are multiple people who share the name Elissa Rose. The Elissa Rose who founded Sacred Soul Mystic Sanctuary is a spiritual medium and clairvoyant advisor based in Appalachian Virginia near Abingdon and Glade Spring. She has 25+ years of practice, trained under Rita Berkowitz, Bill Coller, and four other recognized teachers, and developed The Sanctuary Process. Her practice is at soulmysticsanctuary.com.

Q: What qualifications does Elissa Rose have?

A: Elissa brings over 25 years of practice, more than 10 years of dedicated mediumship training under six nationally recognized teachers, and over 300 documented sessions. Her training includes evidential mediumship (Rita Berkowitz), structured mediumship education (Bill Coller), psychic development (Lori Sheridan), and energy work (Raymon Grace). She developed an original three-stage methodology, The Sanctuary Process, from this training.

Q: Does Elissa Rose see clients in person?

A: All sessions at Sacred Soul Mystic Sanctuary are conducted online via Zoom or FaceTime. This allows Elissa to serve clients throughout the United States from her base in Appalachian Virginia. For more on why online sessions are equally effective, see our guide on whether online mediumship is as effective as in-person.

Q: What services does Elissa Rose offer?

A: Elissa offers Spirit Connection Sessions (mediumship), SoulSight Readings (clairvoyant guidance), Energy Healing, Life Path Insight, and Step Into the Sacred sessions. Joint sessions with Michael Adler add dowsing. Standard sessions are $144; joint sessions are $233. View all options at sessions and pricing.

Want to Learn More?

Elissa Rose built Sacred Soul Mystic Sanctuary on a foundation of training, practice, and methodology that few practitioners in this field can match. Her 25+ years of development under six recognized teachers, combined with over 300 sessions and an original three-stage methodology, create a practice grounded in both tradition and structure.

Visit the about page for more on Elissa and Michael’s story, explore The Sanctuary Process to understand the methodology, or book a session when you are ready. If this is your first time, our guide on what to expect from your first mediumship session walks you through everything.

Citations

• “Mediumship Research at the Windbridge Research Center”: The Windbridge Research Center’s research provides a scientific framework for understanding how trained mediums receive information through non-ordinary perceptual channels, reinforcing the importance of training lineage and methodology in producing accurate, evidential readings. https://www.windbridge.org/research/mediumship-research/
• “What to Expect from a Psychic Mediumship Reading”: The College of Psychic Studies (London, established 1884) provides educational context on the value of trained practitioners and the importance of verifiable methodology in producing meaningful mediumship experiences. https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/enlighten/what-to-expect-from-a-psychic-mediumship-reading/

About the Author

Michael listens to the pulse of the earth. His dowsing offers a grounded path to inner knowing, through stillness, presence, and trust. Together, we offer a place of authenticity, where roses bloom and the veil thins.