Ricci WInner finds out if love is on the cards (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Ricci WInner finds out if love is on the cards

8:36am Tuesday 14th February 2012 in Behind the News By Sally Clifford

Today is the day our thoughts turn to matters of the heart – but for some couples even Valentine’s Day can’t stoke up the romance.

If your relationship could do with some tender loving care, the ‘Psychic Love Doctor’, aka Ricci Winner, may be able to help.

Ricci’s knack of bringing couples together, and having an uncanny understanding of the compatibility of couples, began as a boy. Now he’s using his skills as a professional psychic.

Ricci, real name Peter Corrigan, was nicknamed ‘Psychic Love Doctor’ through his role as a psychic on interactive television show Psychic Today, formerly Psychic TV, in which viewers call in for a reading.

Knowing his own prowess for premonitions and predictions, Ricci phoned the programme makers to offer his skills. Following rigorous tests by the show’s resident psychics, Ricci was given a slot doing viewers’ readings, via a webcam from his Bradford home.

Ricci became aware of his psychic sensitivity when he was just seven years old and he has a particular knack at tuning in to people’s emotions.

“I call myself a natural psychic. I haven’t been trained or been to a development class. It comes naturally to me,” explains Ricci. “I knew I could sense things and pick up on people’s thoughts and emotions.”

Ricci began tuning in to people’s emotions at school and was soon able to sense the compatibility between couples. “That was where my spiritual development was going. I could tell who would stay together and who wouldn’t stay together in a relationship,” says Ricci.

He picked up his first pack of tarot cards in a bookstore aged 14 and was able to make sense of them without reading the booklet. Ricci still uses the same pack of tarot cards today.

Other than working as a school caretaker, he has spent two decades as a professional psychic.

He recalls giving his job up on a whim to pursue his psychic profession. “I left the job not knowing where I was going. But I had a feeling – a positive feeling – this was right,” he says.

“I turned on the TV six years ago, saw Psychic TV as it was at that time, watched it for two hours and thought ‘I can do that’.

“I phoned them up and said ‘I am a psychic clairvoyant medium and I feel I could do what your psychics are doing’. They said they would test me.”

After doing a reading for the psychics, he secured his place on the show and soon became popular with viewers, particularly with his love relationship readings.

“People were coming to me about love so the viewers nicknamed me the ‘Psychic Love Doctor’ and it stuck. Everyone on the show and in the psychic world knows me as that,” says Ricci.

“I have become an expert in romance. I can help people on a professional level to sort out relationships and marriages.”

Sorting out love triangles can be particularly complex, according to Ricci. “They are difficult to read into and sort out,” he says.

Ricci has brought couples together; helped people find love and reunited couples after their relationship has ended.

Having done thousands of readings, he has enlisted the help of a ghost writer to write a book about love and relationships.

And next month Ricci is launching a psychic development class. He believes everyone has psychic tendencies and hopes to teach skills to use in a practical sense.

“I feel it is time for me to give something back, to give back my knowledge and experience I have had for 20 years now of being psychic,” he says.

“I believe what I do is what everyone can do, but I have just fine tuned it and gone further with it which is seeing, hearing and feeling – the natural senses we all have.”

He says learning psychic skills can help people in our daily lives. “When you realise that there is all this energy around us and we can use it for the good of ourselves it can help us in practical things,” he says. “It can help us make decisions and choices instead of worrying about them, and become more confident in making those choices.”

Ricci believes using psychic skills in a positive way can help people heal past traumas and eradicate negativity.

“It can help them to become a better person,” he says.

Ricci Winner’s six-week psychic development course runs at Eccleshill Mechanics Institute from March 20 until April 24, on Tuesdays from 7pm to 9pm. For more information, call (0113) 2571142.