PRESS RELEASE Wednesday April 4, 2018
SHEILA
GRANGER TO FLY THE FLAG FOR HYPNOTHERAPY PROFESSION AT NATIONAL BUSINESS AWARDS
FINALS
International clinical
hypnotherapist Sheila Granger is through to the national finals of the
prestigious Federation of Small Businesses Awards.
She will attend a
glittering award ceremony taking place on 3 May at London’s Park Plaza
Westminster Bridge hotel, to discover if she has won the national ‘Business
Exporter of the Year’ title, for which she is pitted against 11 other finalists
from across the UK.
Sheila,
who runs an international hypnotherapy training business from her Anlaby home
in East Yorkshire, said she’s ‘overwhelmed and delighted’ to have achieved this
all-important recognition for the clinical hypnotherapy profession.
“Clinical
hypnotherapy is an incredibly powerful discipline which has the ability to
literally change people’s lives for the better, but it is often overlooked or
dismissed as a form of hocus pocus, simply because people don’t really
understand it,” said Sheila.
“Over
the years, I’ve achieved some incredible successes in developing my own
treatment programmes to help people overcome problems ranging from over-eating
and obesity, to lack of self-confidence and fear of flying.
“My
focus is now on helping other practitioners around the world to develop their
own hypnotherapy businesses, to help spread the benefits to even more people,
and by doing that to increase the credibility and standing of our profession
against other forms of treatment including more traditional healthcare.
“Recognition
like my FSB regional award win and national shortlisting are invaluable in
helping me to achieve this goal, and I’m very excited to see the result in May although,
win or not, just being involved alongside other more traditional businesses is
an important step forward.”
Sheila
was crowned Yorkshire & Humber ‘Business Exporter of the Year’ at the FSB’s
regional awards event, which took place at the John Smith’s Stadium in
Huddersfield in early March.
She has been recognised for her success in building up a
successful global business teaching her clinical hypnotherapy and business
development techniques to thousands of fellow practitioners all over the world.
She
is just about to embark on her latest worldwide tour to countries including
Switzerland, the USA and Canada. Her last speaking series, in 2017, saw her
speaking to almost 800 conference delegates in six different countries.
In
fact, Sheila has been living out of a suitcase ever since she shot to international
fame for her pioneering ‘Virtual Gastric Band’, which helps people lose
dramatic amounts of weight by re-booting the way they think.
Over
the past six years, she has built up a network of 2,500 clinical hypnotherapists
in nine countries around the world, giving them the know-how and confidence to turn
their practices into business successes using her methods.
She
recently took this process one step further by franchising the Sheila Granger
brand and enabling other, carefully selected practitioners to deliver therapist
business training using her model. This saw her already successful business
grow by a further 20 per cent in just the past six months.
Sheila
now has 20 franchisees in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Belgium and the
United States, using her branded courses covering areas of hypnotherapy
business development including marketing, business growth and financial
management.
Sheila’s
ultimate goal is to have 200 franchisees on the programme, giving her the
potential to reach every hypnotherapist in the world and teach them the
foundations of success.
Her
personal hypnotherapy manuals cover methods for dealing with everything from
smoking cessation to phobia management, sugar addiction and childhood angsts.
Last
year she also launched her East Yorkshire Chamber of Complementary Therapists,
as another vehicle for bringing practitioners together to share best practice.
Sheila’s
hypnotherapy career started with a bang when she responded to a story in her
local Hull Daily Mail newspaper, about a woman who hadn’t been able to stop
hiccupping for several years. Sheila offered to treat her for free and within
just a few sessions she was cured.
She
had just re-trained as a clinical hypnotherapist having left behind her
long-term career with the employment service locally.
ENDS
Photo Sheila Granger
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