She didn't have to get close to use her empathic abilities.

Now, more than ever, she needed all her empathic abilities.

I'll use my empathic ability to monitor your attempt, or at least try to.

Through her empathic abilities she could feel his strength returning.

Then her empathic abilities began to fade under the drug's influence.

She'd lost her empathic abilities, and wasn't yet used to dealing with people on a normal basis.

Peter comes to the conclusion he has some sort of empathic ability.

I knew my empathic abilities would never be the same as other Betazoid children.

It was here that he first found someone to help him learn to name and use his empathic abilities.

He had no empathic ability, and shouldn't be able to name the feeling of contact at this point.