We have people who are healers and those who posses a certain animal magnetism.

The Galactic Milieu Series
Intervention: A Root Tale to the Galactic Milieu and a Vinculum between it and The Saga of Pliocene Exile (Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1987). Period outside science fiction
May and Dikty had three children the last of whom was born in 1958. After the first book the three authors each continued the series on their own.