The vanishers / Julavits, Heidi

Having fallen into an anonymous existence that allows her to keep her psychic gifts a secret, Julia Severn is surprised when she is asked to use her abilities to help locate a missing person. As she sifts through physical and psychic clues, she uncovers evidence that the missing person may have a connection to her mother, who committed suicide years ago.

A power struggle between a leading student at an elite institute for psychics and her jealous legendary mentor culminates in the student being forced to relive her mother's suicide during a brutal psychic attack.