Somewhere on the Westside, a woman is sitting across from a psychic, asking a question that in any other city she would have asked her husband over dinner.
The question is not “can we afford this”. It is not “do we have the square footage” or “what would this do to our sleep, which we have only just recovered.” It is not even do I want this, exactly, because she hasn’t fully gotten there yet.
The question is: is there a soul waiting for me?
And the answer — in Los Angeles, almost always — is yes. Her name is probably Cece.
A Brief Explainer for People Who Just Moved Here
The concept has a founding text: a 2004 book by LA clairvoyant Walter Makichen called Spirit Babies: How to Communicate with the Child You’re Meant to Have. The premise is that souls exist before conception in something like a cosmic waiting room — present, patient, occasionally nudging — and that a medium can serve as translator between prospective parents and whoever’s been hanging around their aura, ready to commit.
The practice initially found its primary audience among people navigating fertility challenges and pregnancy loss, which makes complete emotional sense and is genuinely moving and is, for the purposes of this article, a different story.
This story is about the other clientele. The people who are fine. Who have one healthy kid and a functioning marriage and a Vitamix that still works and are simply, in the course of a regular Tuesday, wondering if they should have another baby. These are people who, in Cleveland, would have had that conversation over pasta. In Los Angeles, they are checking whether anyone has pre-selected them from the beyond.
The Presenting Complaint
You know this person. You might be this person. She is a professional — probably in wellness or entertainment, possibly with advanced degrees, definitely deeply conversant in both the language of evidence-based medicine and the language of “my body is telling me something.” Her biological clock is making a case. She would like a second opinion.
She has tried her partner, who responded to the question of another baby by asking whether they’d maxed out their 529. She has tried her therapist, who reflected the question back at her in a way that was clinically appropriate and completely unhelpful. She has tried journaling, which just produced more questions, formatted as bullet points, with no resolution and a lot of arrows.
Here is the thing about a spirit baby medium that none of those people can offer: she is going to gas you up.
Your therapist will not tell you that your future child is radiant and has already chosen you specifically because of your particular energy. Your husband will not tell you that the soul waiting for you is patient and loving and has a very clear sense of timing. Your OB will hand you a pamphlet.
The spirit baby medium is going to tell you that she’s there. That she’s been there a while. That she is, frankly, delightful — funny, actually, very creative, strong-willed in a way you’ll appreciate later. That she picked you.
Nobody else in your life is saying that. Nobody else in your life is even in the vicinity of saying that. And it’s $200.
The spirit baby, it turns out, is very communicative. Unlike everyone else you’ve tried.
Who’s Running This
The most prominent name in the local scene is Kelly Meehan — Santa Monica and Palisades-based, holder of an MA in Clinical Psychology with a somatic emphasis, host of Spirit Baby Radio (200+ episodes, which is more episodes than most licensed therapists have career sessions), and reportedly the person who coined the actual title “Spirit Baby Medium.” She published a book in 2024. She has been on television. Her waitlist is real.
Also active in the LA scene: Justine Cohen, who combines spirit baby work with fertility practices and holds in-person events at Open Eye Crystals on West Pico Boulevard — which is, for geographic reference, approximately three miles from Erewhon, and therefore exactly where you’d expect all of this to be located.
These practitioners are not operating in the shadows. They have waitlists and Instagram followings and intake forms. They collaborate with fertility yoga teachers. Some offer packages. The price range for a single session is $100–$300, which is, for context, less than one monitoring appointment during an IVF cycle, less than most initial therapy sessions in this zip code, and, depending on the restaurant, less than dinner for two on the Westside. It is not, by LA wellness standards, an unusual amount of money to spend on someone telling you something you sort of already believe.
What Happens In The Room
The medium connects — through whatever process she uses, which varies by practitioner and which we are not here to adjudicate — and reports back. There is apparently a great deal of specificity. Clients describe receiving details the medium couldn’t have known: names, personality traits, physical descriptions, the particular way a future child will come into the world.
One client reported her medium knew something she’d had memorialized in a tattoo. No photo, no prior contact. Just: he showed me this. Another described receiving answers “with such clarity” that she left with peace she’d been unable to find anywhere else.
For the woman who came in simply wondering about a second child, the session tends to produce something that looks less like grief resolved and more like a decision made. A permission slip, notarized by the cosmos. She came in 60/40, she left 100%, and whatever happened in that room, it worked.
The Thing About The Waiting Room
Here is a detail worth sitting with: practitioners broadly hold that essentially anyone who wants to connect with a spirit baby has one waiting. The only people who don’t, apparently, are people with zero interest in ever having children.
Which means the waiting room is always occupied. There is always someone there for you. No client has ever left a spirit baby session having been told: nothing’s coming, the room is empty, might want to revisit your assumptions.
This is either a beautiful philosophy about the universe’s unconditional abundance, or a business with a hundred percent conversion rate, and we will leave that determination to you.
What it means practically is that the woman who came in wondering is leaving with confirmation. The soul is there. It’s ready. It has, apparently, been quite patient.
What she does with that information — whether she goes home and has a real conversation, or starts quietly phasing out birth control, or simply carries it like a warm secret for a few months before anything happens — is between her and Violet.
And eventually, her husband.
Who will find out when she’s already pregnant.