Originally from the UK, Richard Kellow has established himself as an expert Hypnotherapist in Auckland, New Zealand. He has received numerous testaments from happy clients seeking his expertise in weight loss using the Sheila Grangers Virtual gastric band. Richard has appeared on Television in New Zealand and in the printed media. Listen and learn from an expert in his field on how you too can seek out a suitably qualified hypnotherapist and reap the benefits and enjoy the desired outcome.
http://www.kellowhypnotherapy.com
http://www.facebook.com/aucklandhypno
http://www.sheilagranger.com
The Professional Hypnotherapists Podcast is now among the 20 popular hypnosis podcasts available. Take a look at https://blog.feedspot.com/hypnosis_podcasts/
Hi there, thanks for listening and please like this podcast where you listen to your podcasts.
The European Association of Professional Hypnotherapists is a group of like-minded hypnotherapists who are accredited professionals in their field. Many of our therapists have many many years of experience behind them which means you are probably in the best possible hands, available to you.
Why not pop on over to eaph.ie and choose the hypnotherapist that suits you. Many provide online hypnotherapy. eaph.ie
We welcome feedback on your listening experience at eaph.ie
Originally from the UK, Richard Kellow has established himself as an expert Hypnotherapist in Auckland, New Zealand. He has received numerous testaments from happy clients seeking his expertise in weight loss using the Sheila Grangers Virtual gastric band. Richard has appeared on Television in New Zealand and in the printed media. Listen and learn from an expert in his field on how you too can seek out a suitably qualified hypnotherapist and reap the benefits and enjoy the desired outcome.
http://www.kellowhypnotherapy.com
http://www.facebook.com/aucklandhypno
http://www.sheilagranger.com
The Professional Hypnotherapists Podcast is now among the 20 popular hypnosis podcasts available. Take a look at https://blog.feedspot.com/hypnosis_podcasts/
Hi there, thanks for listening and please like this podcast where you listen to your podcasts.
The European Association of Professional Hypnotherapists is a group of like-minded hypnotherapists who are accredited professionals in their field. Many of our therapists have many many years of experience behind them which means you are probably in the best possible hands, available to you.
Why not pop on over to eaph.ie and choose the hypnotherapist that suits you. Many provide online hypnotherapy. eaph.ie
We welcome feedback on your listening experience at eaph.ie
Liz Giles
00:07 - 00:19
This is the professional hypnotherapist podcast, a production of the European association of professional hypnotherapist that's EAPH .ie
Aidan Noone
00:25 - 01:33
And a very warm welcome to you to session number 23. And today our guest is Richard Kellow hypnotherapist in Oakland, in New Zealand. Originally from the UK. Richard has established himself as an expert hypnotherapist in Auckland, New Zealand. He has received numerous testaments and accolades from happy clients seeking his expertise in weight loss, using the Sheila Grainger's virtual gastric band method. Richard has appeared on television in New Zealand and in the printed media, listen and learn from an expert in his field on how you two can seek out a suitably qualified hypnotherapist and reap the benefits and enjoy the desired outcome. All on today's professional hypnotherapist podcast. Richard, Kellow welcome to the professional hypnotherapist podcast.
Richard Kellow
01:34 - 01:37
Thank you, Aiden. It's great to be here. Thanks for having me.
Aidan Noone
01:37 - 01:40
And, you're all the way coming all the way from New Zealand.
Richard Kellow
01:42 - 01:46
I am indeed just all the way down here at, at, at the bottom of the world.
Aidan Noone
01:46 - 01:50
what, what, what time is it there now as a matter of interest
Richard Kellow
01:50 - 01:53
It is 20 past 10 at night. Yeah. And
Aidan Noone
01:53 - 02:13
It's yeah. And it's 20 past 11 here in the morning, so, so you're ahead of us there. now Richard, I've been, you've become very what infamous at this stage, with regard to weight loss, using hypnotherapy for weight loss and specifically I think, the virtual gastric band
Richard Kellow
02:14 - 03:07
That's right. Yeah. So, I mean, although it's the, the virtual gastric band that I use, which a lot of people are probably familiar with the virtual gastric band, but, you know, it really goes sort of more than just sort of saying, you know, Hey, look, you know, you no longer want to eat anymore and chocolate's gonna be like poison to you. if you're just to hypnotize somebody into saying, you know, like your stomach's the size of a golf ball, that's only gonna stick for a certain amount of time. So, really the whole process really is about making sure from my point of view, anyway, that the client is, feeling confident, in control are more empowered in so many other aspects of their life. That the weight then almost comes off as a lucky side effect, rather than just sort of going through a gastric band procedure so that they can't eat anymore. Mm-hmm
Aidan Noone
03:07 - 03:13
well, maybe you just tell us, you know, specifically what is the, the virtual gastric band
Richard Kellow
03:14 - 04:16
so the virtual gastric band process is a four session program. we're essentially in the first, the first session, the client, we go through, their habits and behaviors, their goals, their whys, what they're looking to achieve from the process. And then the hypnosis session initially takes them through what would be a, I guess, sort of a, imaginary gastric band procedure. So they go into, you know, hospital, how they, maybe would be seeing themselves if they were to continue to gain weights. And then they go through the, you know, meeting a surgeon and an antitheist and going through a procedure to actually fit a gastric band, a virtual gastric band to imagine that their stomach is a lot smaller than it is. like I said, if we just left it at that, that's, that's not really, that's just gonna be sticking a plaster on it at the end of the day.
Richard Kellow
04:16 - 04:55
So really all that session really ties to sort of sets everything up to, so to give those sensations a feeling full of for longer satisfied on small proportions helps to cut out the mindless eating. but as I said, there are four sessions in total. So as we work through the other sessions, this is really where we make sure that we, really drill down into cutting out those sabotaging behaviors of eating out of boredom or comfort or habit or stress, whatever any of those emotional ties may be, but also then looking towards, focusing on that future them exactly where they want to be in the future, just to make sure that we can create that permanent change in how they think and feel about food.
Aidan Noone
04:55 - 05:16
Mm-hmm excellent. And, you know, from looking at, I've been, as I've been watching you on New Zealand television recordings, which you have demonstrated enormous success with this intervention. And specifically there, one lady I came across, her name was Rebecca and she lost something like 32 kilo
Richard Kellow
05:18 - 06:21
That's right. Yeah, Rebecca, she, she's done very, very well. She's still doing very well. And, Rebecca was actually referred initially by her GP, which was fantastic because I mean, as a lot of people have probably known the, the hypnosis world, a lot of people in the medical world, there's sort of a bit of a 50, 50, you know, some people in the medical world will really support hypnosis. Other people are still a bit, little bit skeptical. So to have the referral from her GP was, was great originally. but the change in Rebecca, you know, was more than just the weight, you know, became more, much more than that. So it was just how she felt within herself. the, the weight almost became sort of secondary, you know, I mean, she's now has a lot more energy. she's now a lot more confident within her self. She feels that she's actually really nourishing, her body as opposed to abusing her body. And these are the things which actually become a lot more important.
Aidan Noone
06:22 - 06:35
Mm-hmm . And, as you mentioned that that's, that's really important that, you know, you, you give a full explanation of what, what you're actually doing with the client in terms of weight loss and the methodology that you use.
Richard Kellow
06:37 - 07:02
Yeah. So it's, it's really sort of taking that main focus away from the number on the scale. So, I mean, although it's important to have a goal, it, it really is sort of taking the main focus away from the number on the scales and putting that main fo main focus on making sure that they can feel good within themselves. mm-hmm although like, is, it is good to, to have a goal, but not, not having that main focus being scales mm-hmm
Aidan Noone
07:02 - 07:25
and, you know, oftentimes Richard, we hear, you know, people come present, with looking to have lose weight and again, a target weight. and I think you touched on that there briefly earlier where say, for example, somebody who has a lot of emotional stuff in their life, a lot of, you know, maybe, maybe trauma, how do, how do you work with that
Richard Kellow
07:26 - 08:29
So if somebody's got, you know, people don't eat really just for the sake of eating, you know, there is always some kind of emotional, you know, emotional drive behind it. and, you know, even if they're not necessarily aware of it, they might be aware they may not, it may, might be something which they've forgotten about, or perhaps didn't even really feel was, was relevant. And really it's sort of saying to the subconscious, you know, Hey look, I know that you feel that you may be doing best, you know, the best job to keep me safe with, you know, perhaps with holding onto this, this extra weight with the trauma that I've had in the past, but actually really the best way to keep me safe is for me to be fit and lean and strong and healthy and confident. And really these are all of the best ways to keep me safe rather than, rather than holding onto this extra weight with the, you know, perhaps with the trauma that I've experienced in the past. So it's, sometimes it's not necessarily about, forgetting the trauma. but it's just about reframing it.
Aidan Noone
08:29 - 08:38
Hmm. That's interesting. And you know, what you're, what you're actually touching on there is, is I get the impression that you're, you can actually talk to the unconscious of the subconscious mind.
Richard Kellow
08:39 - 09:21
Yeah, yeah. I mean, we've all got, you know, various different parts inside of us and it's just talking to the subconscious and, because the subconscious is always doing whatever it thinks is best to, to, to keep us safe and just thanking it for, for what it's been doing. you know, and the subconscious is the emotional part of your mind. And unfortunately when, when you've got the emotion versus the, logical analytical, conscious part of the mind, and when you've got the emotion versus the logic, emotion's always going to win, which unfortunately, sometimes, you know, is, is the, the driving force between, when it comes up against pupil's, emotional eating problems.
Aidan Noone
09:21 - 09:26
Mm-hmm so Richard, why are you so passionate about what you do
Richard Kellow
09:27 - 09:42
so I guess that all started off for me, maybe about 15 years ago now when I was living in London mm-hmm . so I went to see hypnotherapist myself, to help me to lose weight. So my background is finance. I used to work in, that'd be
Aidan Noone
09:43 - 09:43
Interesting. I'm sure.
Richard Kellow
09:44 - 10:43
Oh, definitely. So I, back in two thousand seven, I was a mortgage underwriter just as a global financial prices hit. So, that was definitely a very, very interesting time. Mm. so, you know, we were all being made redundant, very stressful time at, at that period. And then I got a job working in the stock market in London, which again was a very stressful time. and I saw my weight, balloon, you know, so I, I climb the scales at about a hundred kilos. It's about 30 kilos heavier than I am now anyway. Okay. And my, you know, my thing was chocolate. I could eat chocolate for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, as well as dinner instead of dinner. if I bought a packet of, biscuits at the supermarket, they'd be gone by the time I got home. And I always knew that there was never any chocolate in my cupboards, not because I couldn't trust myself with it, but just because I'd of eaten it all.
Richard Kellow
10:43 - 11:33
Mm-hmm . so it got to a point where I said, okay, look, I've gotta do something. I've tried every diet in the book. you know, just have no willpower whatsoever, you know, to be that whole kind of going to weight watches, starting yourself the day of, of going to weight Watchers, you know, going to the toilet, taking off your jewelry, all of this business. Anyway. So I saw a hypnotherapist, and I was just absolutely blown away with the results. And also how, for one of a better word, how easy it seemed. so I went back to see the hypnotherapist to help him, to get him, to help me for some motivation to exercise, which granted that kind of goes up and down a little bit at the moment, also to help me to stop smoking and still with the stress, of my job.
Richard Kellow
11:34 - 12:06
So I kind of had this whole big, sort of change within myself and it was on the back of that, that I just sort of thought, okay, do you know what, I dunno, what I'm, I just need a break from London, and moved to New Zealand. And that was 10 years ago. Mm-hmm so that, that was sort of the whole change. And when I got here, I sort of reevaluated my life and thought, actually, what do I want to do you know, I'm, I'm good at what I do, within finance, but it's not really something which I guess really spikes joy in what I want to do. And that's, that's when I, retrained the Hypnotherapist mm-hmm
Aidan Noone
12:07 - 12:22
And was the motivation of, to be, to train as a hypnotherapist. Did that just spring out of the fact that you use yourself, went through hypnosis for a particular issue, weight loss, or was it the fact, was it some other reason
Richard Kellow
12:24 - 13:13
It did come about from my previous experience, with the weight loss. but like I said, it was really when I got to New Zealand and I sort of evaluated what I wanted to do, and I thought, I know that I don't want to work in finance anymore. and sort of thinking, you know, what, what really is it that I want to do And it, and it just sort of was playing in the back of my mind, thinking actually, this, this really is a, I know this is a tool that can help a lot of people. I know how effective it is. I've, I've, I've experienced it firsthand. And actually, I think this is something which I want to pass on to, you know, be able to pass on to other people, to help other people with mm-hmm and that's, when I decided to retrain here. So it really was based on my past experience. Okay. You know, I've never heard about it before.
Aidan Noone
13:13 - 13:16
Yeah. You obviously have an interest in people.
Richard Kellow
13:17 - 13:19
Yeah. 100%.
Aidan Noone
13:19 - 13:28
I know. And, and, and talking about people who is the most, would you say the most influential person in your life and how have they impacted you
Richard Kellow
13:31 - 14:31
so, oh, crikey. you know, sometimes you hear this question in peoples are, you know, the most influential person is, I don't know, Freddy mercury or something like that. so the most influential person in person in my life, I mean, I I'd probably have to say is no longer in my life at the moment, unfortunately, is, is my grandmother. Okay. but she was probably the most influential person in my, in my life. just because she had a very, she was able to, she was very resilient, I guess, so yeah, very resilient person, very strong, work ethic and, and just a real strong, just really instilled that, that fact of you can do whatever you want to do and you have to believe in yourself. Mm-hmm
Aidan Noone
14:31 - 14:39
so that's, that's wonderful. Yeah. So she gave you that, that sort of, that imparted to you, that confidence that's necessary
Richard Kellow
14:40 - 14:43
Indeed. Yeah. Yeah. Actually you can do it,
Aidan Noone
14:43 - 14:57
You can do it. And that's, that's important to, to, to believe that you, that you can do it. if you had one superpower, Richard, what, what would it be if you could have one superpower
Richard Kellow
14:58 - 15:34
Oh, if I could have one superpower, it, it would be to fly. so, and I guess this is one thing that, I suppose that actually a lot of people probably wouldn't know about me, is that when I was younger, I actually wanted to be a vet. I used to, volunteer at the home of the world para trust. so birds were sort of my thing. so I used to look after volunteer, looking after birds, and I just always had this, I guess a bit of an affinity with birds. So, you know, I'd, I'd love to be able to fly if I could. That's one, I guess.
Aidan Noone
15:35 - 15:39
excellent. So go ahead. Sorry.
Richard Kellow
15:39 - 15:47
Yeah, no, I was just gonna say, you know, there's none of this invisibility cloak or mind reading or anything like that. Yeah. Just, yeah. To be able to fly
Aidan Noone
15:48 - 15:52
Excellent. And probably fly back to the UK every now and then.
Richard Kellow
15:53 - 15:57
Yes. That's it that having to wear a mask on an airplane So
Aidan Noone
15:59 - 16:13
No, in terms of the world of, of hypnotherapy, and you maybe you've been asked this question many, many times, what's the biggest misconception. Do you think that people have about, field of hypnotherapy
Richard Kellow
16:15 - 16:39
probably that it is mind control mm-hmm , but, you know, I don't want anybody messing with my mind. yeah, I don't need to do anything, you know, don't, don't make me, and, and I'm sure a lot of H therapists have heard this so many times before. I don't want to, you know, be made to bark, like a dog or crack like a duck,
Aidan Noone
16:39 - 16:40
Clock, like a chicken yeah.
Richard Kellow
16:41 - 17:04
Clock like a chicken. Yeah. All of all, all of that business. And I think that's probably one of the biggest misconceptions or else, you know, that, that I'm just gonna be knocked out cold, but to sleep, something like that. So, yeah, I think those are probably two of the biggest misconceptions about, about hypnosis or hypnotherapy that people are gonna be knocked out cold and made to crack like a duck.
Aidan Noone
17:04 - 17:14
Yeah. So, so it's it's and if you were to describe, let's say the whole of hypnotherapy, what words would you use to describe it
Richard Kellow
17:18 - 17:35
Inclusive And I think the profession is very inclusive, healing. Yeah. It's very, inclusive and, and healing profession and, with a great sense of community. I feel
Aidan Noone
17:35 - 17:37
Say again the last bit again, sorry.
Richard Kellow
17:37 - 17:40
Oh, sorry. A great sense of community.
Aidan Noone
17:40 - 18:11
Great sense of community. excellent. Wonderful. Now, just to go back to the, the, the weight loss of weight, target weight, weight control, or whatever words you like, like to choose to use. if, for example, there's somebody out there and I'm sure there are lots of people out there who will be listening to this podcast and they have a weight issue. And, you know, there are other tethers end, as we say, what advice would you give to them right now
Richard Kellow
18:14 - 19:14
really just ditch the scales. So, I mean, the scales can be your friend or your photo at the end of the day. Now some people are really motivated by the scales, but also a lot of people want to get to a certain weight so that they can have more energy, so they, they can fit into their clothes so that they can, you know, bend down to tie up their shoelaces. But ultimately if you've got all of these other non-scale victories, it, it kind of almost doesn't matter what weight you are. if you've achieved all of these things anyway, mm-hmm so, because there's always gonna be day to day, week to week, month to month fluctuations, depending on maybe hormones, you know, salt levels in the body, what position the moon is in the sky. so I just say, you know, ditch the scales and, you know, as long as you know that if you've got a great relationship with food, then, then the white day's gonna be coming off. Ultimately
Aidan Noone
19:14 - 19:27
Mm-hmm excellent. And maybe one final question or final question would be, what's your favorite self care practice if you had one, how do you look after yourself as a therapist
Richard Kellow
19:29 - 19:40
so I like to, floats, I don't even if you know those flotation tanks. Yeah. yeah. Have you, have you heard of them or
Aidan Noone
19:40 - 19:44
Have you I've heard of them I, I haven't, I've never experienced one, but I've
Richard Kellow
19:44 - 20:31
Heard, so this, this is, like this actually almost gets me quite a, like a, a self hypnotic state. So I can't remember. What's like, there's some kind of, I can't remember what kind of salt or minerals are in them, but yeah, you've, they they're basically total sensory deprivation. So you go in, you close yourself into this pod. It's complete darkness, complete silence, and the temperature of the water is, body temperature. So, you know, when you're in a bath, for example, you can sort of feel the difference in the temperature between the skin that's in the water and obviously your skin that's in air mm-hmm , but because this water is body temperature, you just can't feel anything. And you're floating, within this water with the, the minerals that are there. So you're completely suspended. There's no pressure points on your body.
Richard Kellow
20:32 - 21:30
You can't see anything, you can't hear anything. And your body is just, obviously everything is just body temperature, because that's what, what the water is. And once you're in there, you're in there for about an hour, just floated suspended in this water. And, you actually get into a really deep sense of, meditation. and it's actually really quite amazing how much your minds can open up, process through what's been happening in the day or the week. And, and like I said, it's, it's, it's the closest I feel that I can get to in sort of getting into a really deep state of, of, of self hypnosis. It's actually really nice, a really nice way for, for self-care much better than a massage, much better than, meditation, I feel. Yeah. So that's one thing that I like to do.
Aidan Noone
21:31 - 22:09
Excellent. That's a wonderful activity. And maybe sometime I I'll experience that. just something that occurred to me, another question, if I may, giving, given all your success in terms of, with your clients, I'm sure you've had success in other areas other than weight, weight control or weight loss. What advice would you give to an aspiring hypnotherapist or maybe an established hypnotherapist out there in terms of how they can be just as successful as you, if that doesn't sound to brave too bold a question
Richard Kellow
22:10 - 23:22
yeah. I know because sometimes, you know, it, it does feel like, you know, am I, am I just, you know, just going day by day really So, yeah, it is, you know, I suppose it is that whole kind of, you know, just believe that you can do it and if you're not a hundred percent sure that you can do it, just do it anyway. because you know, the, yeah, just, I think, you know, Sheila, Sheila Grainger, you know, who's a, you know, who's a good, mentor of mine. I think she always says, you know, putting your big girls' pants on which oh, yes. Obviously would be, you know, my big boys' pants, but, you know, just do that and, you know, just, just get out there and do it, because if you don't a hundred percent know, you know, there's, there's lots of things which I thought, okay, I don't know if I can actually do this, you know, either go to the media with this story or maybe update a certain thing, or, but then I've just like, I'm just gonna put myself out there and do it.
Richard Kellow
23:22 - 23:32
And if, you know, if people don't come or if nobody responds, nobody would've responded if I didn't do it anyway. So it's just kind of, okay, just put yourself out there.
Aidan Noone
23:32 - 23:37
Mm-hmm and you mentioned the media, you have a great same report or with the media in New Zealand.
Richard Kellow
23:39 - 24:53
Yeah. and again, it literally just has been a case of knocking on doors, I guess. and it's going to them with a, with a story, which perhaps is something which, you know, a human interest story, I think, like you said, with the one about Rebecca. Hmm. the part about me within that story was probably only two paragraphs, you know, the, the actual story was Rebecca. rightly so, you know, because Rebecca was the one that actually has achieved so much. Mm-hmm , but it, wasn't a sales story on, Hey, look at this hypnotherapist, look how great this hypnotherapist is. No, it's a story about Rebecca, which actually here's two paragraphs about the hypnotherapist that helped her along the way. But of course, that still really benefits me of course. because when people read her story, they then look to see how that happened. but the media, you know, the press and the media, like a story that isn't a sales pitch, I guess. So mm-hmm, , you know, they don't want me going to them saying, Hey, can you write all about me Yeah. They want to, you know, they, they want to write,
Aidan Noone
24:54 - 24:55
The human interest story.
Richard Kellow
24:55 - 24:58
Yeah, yeah. Human interest story. Yeah.
Aidan Noone
24:58 - 25:07
Excellent. Well, that was wonderful. rich, Richard, thank you so much. what would be, maybe you'd give us your contact details please.
Richard Kellow
25:08 - 25:25
Yeah, sure. So, my website is www.kellowhypnotherapy.com. that's K ellow. And my Facebook is, facebook.com/ Auckland Hypno.
Aidan Noone
25:27 - 25:32
Excellent. So that was Richard. Kellow hypnotherapist in Auckland, New Zealand. Thank you so much, Richard.
Richard Kellow
25:33 - 25:35
My pleasure. Thank you so much for having me.
Aidan Noone
25:36 - 26:25
You have been listening to the professional hypnotherapist podcast, and I have been your host, a known why not pop over to EAHP.ie where you will find solutions for you there. And did you know that the professional hypnotherapist podcast is now among the most popular top 20 hypnotherapist podcasts available That's a blog.feedspot. .com/hypnosis_podcasts. Thank you for joining me. I really do appreciate you listening. So until next time it's bye-bye for now.