The New Weight-Loss Conversation: Working Confidently in the GLP-1 Era

Session structure and language patterns you can use immediately

GLP-1 medications have changed the weight-loss landscape, and they’ve changed the conversations clients bring into the therapy room. “Food noise”, fear of regain, emotional eating creeping back in, and uncertainty about what happens when medication reduces or ends are now everyday themes.

In this practical, demonstration-led session, I’ll share what I’ve learned from 17 years specialising in weight-loss hypnotherapy and translate it into a modern, ethical approach for the GLP-1 era. A key theme is this: for many people, GLP-1s can create rapid change, but they may feel they’ve borrowed control rather than learned it. When that borrowed control reduces, the old patterns can rush back unless we help clients build internal regulation and a stable maintenance identity.

You’ll experience a live Food-Noise Downshift demonstration and learn rapid techniques to settle the nervous system, reduce urge intensity, and move clients out of “autopilot eating”. We’ll explore clean, effective hypnotic language that strengthens choice, consistency, and self-leadership, so clients don’t just lose weight, they learn how to keep it off.
Everyone will leave with a simple, repeatable session structure and ready-to-use language they can apply immediately with GLP-1 users, GLP-1 “exit” clients, and those choosing a non-medicated route.

Sheila Granger is a UK Clinical Hypnotherapist and trainer driven by one question: What else is possible? Best known for her Virtual Gastric Band weight-loss protocol, she’s helped thousands of hypnotherapists worldwide grow their practices and achieve stronger client results. Expect practical strategies, a straight-talking style, and an ego-free, can-do attitude. Sheila was IMDHA Hypnotist of the Year (2019), won the IMDHA Distinguished Service Award (2025), and her business was UK National Business of the Year (2021).