Robert DeGroot

Dr. Bob DeGroot is the founder of Sales Training International and the owner of the SalesHelp brand. He is a bestselling author, psychometric researcher, test developer, consultant, top-producing sales professional, and trainer.

Bob served in the US Coast Guard (1967-1973). He attended Texas State University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Master of Education (MEd) in School Psychology. He earned his Doctor of Clinical Hypnotherapy (DCH) degree from the American Institute of Hypnotherapy.

He is the author of 47 business books, 25 of which have become Amazon Top 100 Bestsellers. "Objection Free Selling" has been on the bestsellers lists for over seven years.

New Genre and New Non-Fiction Release: "Find and Talk with Spirits using a Pendulum."

What started as a research project at Texas State University into the paranormal world of ESP turned into a book exploring the larger universe of paranormal skills revolving around communicating with spirits. Experiential learning continued throughout his doctoral studies, highlighted by in-depth training and experiences with psychokinesis, remote viewing, past life regression, Firewalking, and "Spirit Releasement Therapy." It culminated with several paranormal investigations that developed the spirit interviewing and intervention methods taught in this new bestselling book.

New Fiction Genre: Paranormal Mystery - Magical Realism

The new paranormal mystery series uses reader-learnable methods to solve mysteries surrounding locating and recovering missing persons, fugitives, evidence, artifacts, and contraband.

While the stories are fictional, the paranormal methods (dowsing, remote viewing, past-life regression, psychokinesis, etc.) are real and based on the demonstrated capabilities of professionals working in missing person rescue and recovery, fugitive location and capture, contraband discovery, and other related fields.

What makes Dr. DeGroot uniquely qualified for this new direction in writing comes from his unusual education, training, and professional experiences. Below is a list of relevant degrees, licenses, certifications, specialized and esoteric training, and life and work experiences that provide his writing depth, realism, and credibility.

Education and Licenses

• Doctor of Clinical Hypnotherapy (American Institute of Hypnotherapy - AIH)
• Board Certified Hypnotherapist (American Board of Hypnotherapy - ABH)
• BA Psychology & MEd School Psychology (Texas State University)
• Psychological Associate (Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists)
• Licensed Professional Counselor - Retired (Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors)
• Licensed Private Investigator - Skip Tracing - Expired (Texas)
• Professional Associate School Psychologist - Life Certificate (Texas)

Select Experiences (Psychology, Forensics, Hypnosis, Law)

• Assistant Instructor of Psychology (Texas State University)
• Associate School Psychologist (Temple ISD)
• Supervisor Children's Forensic Clinic for Harris (Houston County, TX (MHMRA Children's Outpatient Services & Juvenile Probation)
• Skip Tracer (Austin Recovery Bureau)

Specialized Training (Psychology, Forensics, Hypnosis, Law)

• Advanced Forensic Hypnosis (Collin County Community College Law Enforcement Training Division)
• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5) of Mental Disorders Diagnosis & Treatment (Premier and CMI Education)
• Neuropsychological Evaluations - Certification (University of Texas - McCarron-Dial System)
• Psychological Diagnostic (Texas) Certification (IQ, Personality, etc.)
• Educational Diagnostics (Texas) Certification
• Mental Status Exam (Cross Country Education Certificate)
• Emergency Mental Health: Assessment and Treatment (Cross Country Education Certificate)
• Certified Emergency Management and Transportation of the Sick and Injured (Texas Department of Health)
• Non-Verbal Hypnosis Induction Technique and Ideomotor Responding (Inspector Marx Howell - Texas Department of Public Safety)
• Jurisprudence (TX State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors Jurisprudence Exam)
• Texas Mental Health and the Law (PESI)
• Certified Anger Resolution Therapist (Center for Anger Resolution)
• Cape Coral Citizens Police Academy (Cape Coral Police Department)

Esoteric Training

• Remote Viewing (ABH Certification & International Remote Viewing Association)
• Coordinate and Extended Remote Viewing Techniques Applied Training
• Time Line Therapy Practitioner (Time Line Therapy Association)
• Past-Life Therapist (ABH Certification)
• Spirit Releasement Therapy - Spirit Rescue (ABH Certification)
• REIKI Master First Degree (Reiki Academy of Healing Arts)
• Kinesiology (International Kinesiology College)
• Energy Therapy Techniques (ABH Certification)
• Reading Auras (ABH)
• Firewalker (Center for Effective Change)
• Tarot Cards (Wake County Library Program)
• Beginning Psychic Detective (Pam Coronado)
• Psychokinesis (Jack Houck - PK Party Master) Achieved 80+% success rate during personally conducted spoon bending parties
• Pendulum Dowsing (ABH Certification, Jack Houck)
• Ideomotor Training
• Map Dowsing (ASD) Conducted Remote Map Dowsing sessions for Spirit activity and paranormal hot spots throughout an historic downtown
• Member American Society of Dowsers - (ASD)
• Member International Remote Viewing Association (IRVA)

Paranormal Research

• Conducted a paranormal research at Texas State University in Extrasensory Perception using a double-blind experiment design with color cards (Zener style)
• Participated in the "Intention Experiment" conducted by Lynne McTaggart (Author, Researcher)
• Conducted paranormal research and demonstration using a pendulum to communicate with Spirits
• Conducted individual Spirit Rescue sessions involving Earthbound Spirit attachments
• Conducted Spirit Rescue en masse

Military Service

• US Coast Guard - Search and Rescue Certification (US Coast Guard 1967 - 1973. Active duty 1967 – 1971. Reserve duty 1971-1973)
• US Coast Guard Cutter Rambler - Seaman (100 foot Intracoastal Waterway and Rivers Buoy Tender)
• US Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi, TX – 2nd Class Petty Officer, Aviation Electrician’s Mate (fixed and rotary-wing)

Boating (protagonist lives on a boat)

• Sailboat Racing and Cruising - Member of various yacht clubs and racing & cruising associations. Rhodes 19 Class racing (Texas & Virgin Islands) and PHRF racing - Santana 25 Mark II, and C&C Mega (Texas). Served on Race Committees
• Admiral - Texas Navy (Honorary)
• Gold Looper - (American Great Loop Cruising Association) - Lived on a 49-foot DeFever CPMY trawler style motor yacht full-time for three years while cruising the Great Loop circumnavigating the eastern states by water.

Dr. Robert "Bob" DeGroot, MEd, DCH
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