Support my training in somatic trauma therapy

Aim: Help me grow as a healing space-holder.

Hello everyone 🥰

I’m fundraising to join a Trauma-Informed Somatic Counselling course that I’ve been deeply drawn to for over a year now. It’s a powerful and integrative training that brings together body-based healing, trauma support, and nervous system regulation — all things that have been life-changing in my own healing journey.

This isn’t just a course for me — it’s a soul calling.

Why This Matters to Me

I’ve experienced a lot of emotional, mental, physical, and sexual abuse throughout my life. For a long time, I didn’t have the awareness, support, or safety to process any of it. Everything got stuck inside of me — and it started showing up in my body and mind in ways I couldn’t ignore anymore:

• high-functioning anxiety
• chronic fatigue and exhaustion
• insomnia
• depression
• psoriasis
• dissociation

Over the past few years, I’ve slowly started finding ways to release the layers of stress and pain I’ve been carrying. Somatic work, nervous system healing, embodied movement, Nature and counselling have all helped me reconnect with myself in ways I never thought were possible. They have all helped in different ways, to free me from the cages I built within my own mind and the walls I constructed around my heart. 

It has not been easy, however it has been the most rewarding journey I have ever been on. It’s been raw, scary, painful, freeing, liberating  and so real. And now, more than ever — I feel ready — to offer that kind of support to others and to help them feel safe enough so that they can rediscover their absolute truth and to start to embody it at the deepest level.

Why This Course

I’ve researched this course for over a year now. And wow. The syllabus resonated so deeply with me — like it was written for exactly the kind of space I want to hold for others.

Oh and of course, the self doubt crept in. The old voices: “You’re not good enough. You’re not ready. You don’t have the capacity for this. Who do you think you are?”

But after a series of big shifts in my life — releasing relationships, beliefs, and parts of myself that were no longer aligned (so painful yet so liberating) — I can feel it in my bones:

This is the next step. I am ready. And I’m asking for YOUR support to help get me the training I require for this dream that I have held in my heart for a long time. ❤️🙏🏻

What I’ll Be Using Your Support For

• Course tuition
• Books & materials
  
  I’ll also include a link to the course itself so you can read about it and see why it means so much to me:
  🔗 https://www.isohh.org.uk/counsellingtraining

The Bigger Vision

I deeply desire to help people not just heal, but thrive — to feel safe in their bodies, connected to their truth, and empowered to live lives that actually feel like theirs.

This work is about helping others feel seen, safe, and whole again — especially those who, like me, never had that growing up.

And this training is just the beginning for me. I intend for my professional growth to be ongoing and ever-deepening. I plan to continue learning through eco-therapy, nature-based healing, energy work, women’s circles, and facilitator training, so I can offer grounded, holistic support to others who are healing and awakening to their truth.

How You Can Support

If this resonates with you, here’s how you can help me, help you 😉🙏🏻:

Donate – any amount is SO deeply appreciated. £2, £20 or £200 - any amount is enough & received with gratitude. 🙏🏻

Share – with friends, on social media, or in your community.

Reach out – your words of encouragement or connection mean MORE than you know.

Thank you for reading this. Thank you for being a part of this bigger vision I dream of. Thank you for believing in a more trauma informed world, where healing is possible & wholeness is our BIRTHRIGHT! ☯️🌀

With so much love & a heart full of gratitude 

Yours truly

Darcia 🌹

Funding method

Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 16th August 2025 at 1:58pm