Kevin Young, Intuitive Coach
Kevin Young
Kevin is an intuitive coach whose work supports people in reconnecting with their own inner guidance, presence, and natural intuitive abilities.
Q. Can you start by introducing yourself and telling us how you came to be an intuitive coach?
Yes. I think it’s an evolution.
I started out as a tech person many years ago, and I entered the tech world because my childhood was not very safe. There was a lot of protection around the heart, and walls, and being in my head doing logical things was kind of the safe place for me.
So I started there, then moved into computer design work, software development, and eventually IT. That really helped me develop a logical, practical, pragmatic, minimalist approach to life. I can take things and reduce them, see the big picture, and focus things.
It turns out that when coaching came along later, that personality type actually merged very well into the coaching modality.
Coaching means a lot of things to a lot of people. I define my coaching as intuitive coaching. I trained about a dozen years ago through International Coach Federation style modalities, with codes of ethics and requirements. I learned how to be present as a coach, how to ask questions, how to reflect, and how not to interfere with the client doing their own work.
Q. At what point did you feel steered towards autistic non-speaking families?
Starting back around 18 years ago, I had a non-cancerous brain tumour, which was the disruptor from logical, practical, minimalist Kevin into, “What else is there?”
When you’re close to death, possibilities open up. Within a week of the diagnosis, we were introduced to Abraham Hicks workshops, channelled consciousness work. At first I didn’t believe it at all, because I was very much, “You live, you die, you’re done.”
Then suddenly, there was this idea that there was more. The researcher, scientist part of me had to pick it all apart and understand it. That led into understanding what channelling really was, and connecting to broader consciousness.
When I moved into coaching, that opened into wanting to help other people become channels, telepaths, mediums, or whatever allowed them to let go of their fears and blocks, and open the natural channel we are born with to broader consciousness.
Then, about a year ago, I heard The Telepathy Tapes, like probably everyone listening to you has. I had been following autism just out of curiosity, because I love understanding differences in people and how to help them. I don’t have an autistic person in my life, which is ironic in some ways.
As soon as I heard The Telepathy Tapes, several things happened.
First, it was like, “Oh my God, there are kids inside these bodies.” That was mind-blowing. It totally shifted my paradigm.
Then I started hearing the stories of the parents and caregivers who were discovering this too. I felt their desperation. They’re already taxed, over-taxed, stressed, and that stress shuts down the telepathic connection.
They want to connect, but they can’t, because they themselves are blocking it without knowing it.
I understood how to help with that. The things I learned about channelling, connecting with higher consciousness, letting go of fears and stress, and coming into presence, all transferred directly to the parents and caregivers.
From the bigger perspective, I know these kids are coming in greater and greater numbers. Abraham did a workshop 16 years ago called The Autistic Revolution, way before this was being widely talked about, because they saw it coming.
Suddenly I thought, “I want to be on this leading edge. I want to help these kids teach us what they are here to teach us, about love, compassion, connection, and acceptance.”
Kevin presenting Law of Attraction concepts in front of an audience
To do that, I need to help parents and caregivers open up, so we can hear what the kids are saying and open up the dialogue.
Q. Did you feel there were synchronicities there, especially because telepathy was already part of your work before The Telepathy Tapes?
To me, telepathy is very simple.
We are consciousness first, and then we have chosen to come partially into physical bodies to have a disconnected experience, to figure out what is important to us, follow our soul’s intentions, and eventually come back to connection.
We are never disconnected from this non-physical, spiritual side of ourselves, but we are pretty turned off from it.
When I was introduced to Abraham and then many other channels, I always saw the same thing. It’s about how much you have your human valve opened or closed to the broader part of you streaming in.
If you are too much in your head, your brain shuts off the guidance. You get confused, run into things, don’t attract what you want, and get sick.
If the valve is too far open, you’re living in the cloud and not enjoying the physicality of the body.
So it’s finding the stream of guidance while living in the present moment and enjoying the richness of what’s around us. This is where life was meant to be lived.
So yes, I’ve always known telepathy was there, but accessing it has taken practice.
Q. Did you always feel intuitive growing up?
Very early on, I was pretty emotionally abused as a smaller child. Some of that has come back up in healing sessions recently, some of the darker things that are now ready to process and release.
As soon as you start putting a wall up around your heart, you are in defensiveness, protection, and survival. You can’t connect, because the brain is so overactive and in survival mode.
I certainly had moments of awareness and connection, but I didn’t call them that. They were more like relief.
It wasn’t until I understood the whole picture, where that was coming from and how much is accessible, that I began to allow myself to open up.
A (very) young Kevin playing with his wonderful daughter, Becky
But it has still taken years to feel safe in my own body. I could honestly say maybe three years ago was when I really began to feel safe.
The intuitive side was always there, but I don’t think I recognised it until I knew where to look.
Q. As an intuitive coach, do you also need support from others?
We are always healing ourselves. Nobody can heal you, because you are the one creating the illness to begin with. But support from coaches, yes.
I have had hundreds and hundreds of healing sessions in the last 18 years, channels, mediums, psychics, a little bit of therapy, and all sorts of people who could bring through different versions of guidance.
They would bring in a version of my inner being, or the higher team, saying, “Here’s the piece you are missing right now. Here’s the next puzzle piece.”
Then I had to grab it, face the fear, and move into it. Once I did that, the next piece would come.
It’s a process.
Q. Would you say, healing is a constant thing?
Yes. That is the point of being here.
If all the stress and contrast went away, which is where all the new stuff comes from, there would be no point in staying in the body anymore.
Your higher self is not going to take you out of this body while there is still value in the experience. So while we are here, we might as well enjoy it.
I resisted it most of my life. I wanted to ask the universe, “Where is the door? Just show me the door and I’ll go through it.” I was tired of suffering.
Now I have gotten to the point where I am starting to see I can control my life. I can change the direction. I have to face the fears, I have to do the work, and I will get help when I need it.
Every time I do that, the next level shows up.
You’re never done climbing the mountain, but if you can enjoy the process a little bit more, you get excited when the next unknown peak shows up. You think, “I’m going to climb up there. It’ll be scary, but I have the tools.”
Kevin and Suzanne on one of the Abraham-Hicks cruises
Q. Would you say the best people to help someone through an experience are often those who have lived it themselves?
Yes, you need the authenticity. That comes from the heart, from real-world brain wiring, and the experience of getting through it.
Earlier in life, I would learn to teach. I was always the guy in the family who would be the teacher or support person. I learned how to absorb things so I could tell somebody else how to do it.
But I was always left wanting. “What about me?”
Eventually, through different sessions, my guides said, “That’s up to you. Your job is to absorb it for you and put it into practice in your life. When you do that, you will get the benefit. Then when you teach, others will receive a deeper knowing, because it’s coming from complete knowing, not just a surface intellectual level.”
Q. What have been some of your most profound “aha” moments in this intuitive coaching journey?
Every person is different and unique.
I think I do this work because it requires me to be in a state of surrender and presence, where I can feel guidance flowing into my body and out of my mouth. That has been one of the hardest things.
When I learned the coaching process, one of the things they were very clear about was that you do not get an opinion about where your client goes or what they want. Otherwise, you are on the playing field directing them, and you do not have their inner guidance.
You are not there to tell them what to do. You can ask questions to invoke awareness and reflect what you are seeing from a new perspective, in case they want to use that perspective. But at no time am I saying, “This is the direction you should go.”
It is always about helping them find themselves and their guidance.
Recently, I had a conversation with a mother of a 21-year-old apraxic daughter who was having seizures, and they were getting worse. The mother was desperate, but open to what she had to do to change.
It was like the floodgates opened in me. Her inner being was talking to me and talking to me. I shared what was coming, and we were co-creating in that moment.
She had releases, crying, pain in her body went away, and she made a telepathic connection. It was small, but she had done it long ago and forgotten.
I can die happy now because of that session, but I also know there are even better ones coming because I am getting deeper.
Q. What would you say is the biggest lesson you have learned about communication beyond spoken words?
When we are in our head and our thoughts are controlling our attention, the guidance shuts down.
I look at it very simply, like one of those hot and cold water valves. Hot is complete higher consciousness, pure positive guidance. Cold is completely in the human brain, trying to intellectualise, letting stories and memories direct.
The human mind was not designed to see what is coming. It can understand what happened, but it cannot help you with what will happen. Yet we try to make goals and plans from that place, and that is why they do not go very well.
It is about finding a way to let go of the brain’s need to know, and all the fear around control and the unknown. It is about surrendering and moving the valve towards trusting the now moment.
Every time I do that, I feel a little safer, I am a little more guided, and things work out a little better.
Q. What do you think families of non-speakers need most right now?
Hope.
The belief that something is possible.
Many of the families I come across are in desperation. They are exhausted. One woman I spoke with had fibromyalgia, lupus, chronic fatigue, and all of that was created from being way overstressed. She literally said she had lost hope.
My task is to help them see that, first of all, they are already doing things that are working, they just haven’t pieced it together yet.
Then we talk about techniques and simple ways to quiet the mind, even if it is only for five minutes. We talk about how to move the valve a little bit from cold towards warm, where you start to get impulses, inspirations, and synchronicities.
The law of attraction is the vibrational mechanism that brings together things that match frequency. It takes about 15 seconds of staying on an emotional frequency before you start to attract on that frequency.
So it is really important to catch yourself when you start to slip into an old negative memory or story.
We all have these cassette tapes up here. Something triggers, and suddenly an old memory starts playing, “Nothing works out for me. I’m worthless.” I had all that too, and still have a little bit of it, but it does not mean anything until your attention catches it and goes with it.
As soon as your attention goes with the story, you start creating more of the story.
So catch it early. Stop, redirect to something else. Just by doing that little thing, people can begin to build their own hope. Then it becomes self-feeding over time.
Q. What do you hope the future looks like for autistic non-speakers and beyond-verbal individuals?
This may sound strange, but I do not think about the future anymore, and I try very much not to think about the past.
As soon as I project my expectation, I am back in my head with limited knowledge and narrow perspectives, trying to force things down a certain path.
What I know for sure is that nothing is going wrong on this planet or in the universe, as bad as it may look and as painful as it can be. From a higher perspective, we are here because we chose to have a journey into deep darkness so we could create transformation within ourselves, and learn more compassion, more love, and more new ideas.
The only thing we want to do more of is suffer less and enjoy more.
My hope for non-speakers is that they attract more people who can help their caregivers and parents learn to communicate with them.
My hope for caregivers and parents is that they can chill out a bit more and start to let in the guidance, so the connection can occur.
Q. What projects or goals are you currently excited about?
Clearly, moving more into support for parents and caregivers who are looking for hope, helping them soften the angst and energy they are holding onto, and then opening up the telepathic connection where possible.
That is ongoing through my private coaching. People can book with me through my website, intuitivecoachkevin.com, and read about me there.
I am also looking to expand into another platform where I can share regular information and conversations around things that are working for clients. If somebody does not want to work with me just yet, they can read other people’s experiences and things that come to my mind that I want to share.
At some point, I also see a community forming. I am a person who likes to build communities. I have always done that. That is why I fit into this group so well as an admin, I am right at home helping other people connect.
I can see creating a safe space for parents and caregivers who just want to know that somebody else is there who understands them.
Q. Can you tell us more about your role in the autism and telepathy group?
I am one of the admins, along with Monique and others. Our role is to maintain a safe and positive environment to talk about telepathy as it relates to non-speaking autism and other non-speaking conditions, with autism being the primary focus as discussed in The Telepathy Tapes.
The idea is to build community, provide information, and help families who need support.
A lot of people in the group are providers who can create a telepathic connection between parents and children, like Mich Carpenter does, and there are others doing that too.
I also host the every-other-week Exploring Telepathy Zoom calls, which are free to everyone. People can come and meditate with us a little bit, relax, talk about the idea of messages we can receive, and then we practise telepathy.
It is a really fun, safe space to open up about these ideas that most people do not have anyone to talk to about.
Q. Why is it so important for parents and caregivers to have a private, safe space?
One of the reasons some parents are in such a desperate state is that they often have nobody to talk to.
Sometimes they are brought up in a conservative religious family that believes all of this is the devil’s work. They know in their heart that something is working. They are feeling their child, receiving messages, or having experiences, but they do not have support. In fact, they may be condemned.
Some will not even use the word telepathy.
One person had to hide in the back room to have a Zoom conversation with me because she was afraid her mum would get wind of it. If some of these parents lose their family support, they could be out on the street. So they are very, very afraid to talk.
Creating a private space where they can come together and see each other matters. We can do the work in private. You do not need to tell anybody you are working on yourself.
That is an important project that is coming online.
Q. Is there anything you still feel called to explore or learn?
I just want to explore more of this.
The deeper I get, the broader the horizon becomes.
I had some vision issues a year and a half ago, including a detached retina. I have always had vision problems and have been nearsighted.
I have come to understand, from a spiritual body connection perspective, that conditions of the body are always reflective of a belief system or vibration that has been going on.
Being nearsighted, I was always looking only at what was close around me, because if I looked up, it could be dangerous. I could be criticised. I could be attacked if I stepped out of my lane.
Recently, I had cataract surgery and got corrective lenses. I have a new lens in one eye now, so I can see better. Then I had to vibrationally step into seeing the bigger picture.
A few weeks ago, I had a vision, I think in the shower, of an expansive horizon, like everything. Suddenly I could mentally see what I had been hiding myself from.
That vision opened me up to infinite possibilities.
I know that if I just keep showing up every day, I will be guided to how to reach the people I am here to help.
Q. You have spoken before about wanting to touch a million people. Can you say more about that?
I have a picture of a million people at a rally. I keep it near me and show it all the time. It reminds me that this is just a million people.
You think, “What if I could touch a million people? What if I could somehow affect them?”
I have been told in channelling sessions that I probably already have. How do you know? Families reach families. There is a trickle-down effect.
It feels like I want more.
Each one of those souls in that picture, I can tune into and feel their calling.
If you feel inspired to anything in life that excites you and moves you forward to help people, it is because you are feeling their calling. You are completing the circuit to Source in that moment. That is what the energy flowing through you is.
If you want to reach people with your book or with other work you are doing, it is because there are people out there calling specifically for you. Not anybody else. You.
That excites me every day. When I feel that excitement and energy, I know there are people who want what I have. They will find me, and we can work together. I will get support from the universe to do it, and they will get support to find me. It is all going to work out.
Q. Aron once said, “We are all a link in the chain.” What does that bring up for you?
That is a beautiful point.
Positive energy is millions of times more powerful than negative energy, because negative energy is just squeezing off positive energy.
Kevin and his "old soul" granddaughter, Olivia
When you give people permission to open up their own positive side for a moment, they get relief from their own resistance, and Source floods into them.
So it is not just, “I bought somebody lunch, how did that change the world?”
No. You opened up an infinite source in them in that moment, which they will taste and feel and come back to.
It is not as little as it seems. It truly is the ripple effect, and it is having an effect.
That is why we do not need a billion people to be on board for the Earth to change. It is a smaller number of people who can affect the world with a more positive way.
It is my joy to be on this trip with people like you, where we get to play together and help the world.
Q. Is there anything you would like to leave people with?
I would want to leave people with a feeling of hope and optimism.
You are not here by accident.
You have purpose, and you are the one who defines it by what feels good to you.
Keep leaning in that direction. Come more into the now moment, and life is going to turn out really great.
