'Arras Healing' was created in October 2021 and is based in the ancient rolling hills of the Yorkshire Wolds, Britain.
My name is Candy and I established Arras Healing to play my part in the ‘midwifery’ of a trauma-informed world. I am passionate about bringing trauma awareness and education to more people, organisations and communities. I am confident that this growing awareness – particularly of intergenerational (ancestral) and collective trauma – can transform societies and break through overwhelm and ‘stuckness’ to create new healing paradigms to benefit everyone.
I am a certified breathworker, somatic practitioner, trauma coach, and independent consultant in trauma-informed research and leadership. I specialise in breathwork, peer facilitation, somatic attunement practices, ancestral healing, and trauma education.
Before running Arras Healing, I worked for the NHS as a successful programme manager and prior to this worked in the voluntary sector delivering award-winning projects to vulnerable communities, veterans and other service users. I have held roles in Equality and Diversity and have worked closely alongside leading mental health and primary care clinicians to develop, implement and evaluate trauma-informed approaches across health and care settings, in particular those where health inequalities are present.
I have trained within the school of world-leading trauma facilitator Dr Thomas Hübl PhD and his community of highly-attuned and specialised therapists and consultants, and I have previously worked as a tutor and peer support leader in breathwork for the Bedfordshire Centre for Therapeutic Studies.
I'm fully-insured and receive regular supervision for my leading of group and one-to-one work. I also continue to lead reflective practice spaces for other holistic professionals, counsellors, coaches and trauma therapists, and I'm always committed to continuing my professional development.
Through Arras Healing, I'm particularly interested in exploring the interplay between individual trauma, collective trauma and ancestral trauma and how integrating these can lead to profound changes in wellbeing, wholeness and consciousness.
Qualifications undertaken 2021-2025 and to present:
Meditation Accredited Teaching Diploma, International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine, since July 2021
Breathwork Coaching, Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body, since October 2021
Avalon Institute of Rebirthing (AIR) School of Breathwork, July 2022-January 2025 (320 hours)
Certificate in Trauma-Informed Leadership, Pocket Project, September 2022
Advanced Certificate in Somatic Trauma Skills and Theory, Temenos, July 2023
Various certifications in somatic trauma resolution practice and attunement, Academy of Inner Science, 2021-2025 (I follow the somatic inquiry and attunement model taught by Thomas Hübl and his senior trainers, this is similar in nature to Focusing and parts work)
Reiki Levels 1 & 2 qualified, since 2022
CPD courses undertaken 2021-2025 and to present:
Breathwork for Trauma and Abuse
Healing Attachment Injury Embedded in Complex Trauma
Somatic Tools for working with Shame
Various professional intensives and CPD with Dr Gabor Maté
Breathwork for Victims of Sexual Trauma
Refining Relational Attunement
Working with Anger with Breathwork and Embodiment Practices
Science of Calm and Relaxation through a Polyvagal Lens
Helping Clients who Dissociate and Feel Unsafe in their Bodies
Working with Archetypes in Therapy
Chronic Pain and Trauma-Informed Healing
Somatic Interventions for Chronic Pain & Syndromes
The Wonderful World of Parts Work and IFS
Compassionate Inquiry - short online course version
The Empowered Menopause
Somatic Resilience: Overcoming Early Trauma
The Art of Attunement - short course
Transparent Communication - short course
Mystic Café professional membership
Ancestral Healing (A Lineage of Love) - short course
Eros: Love, Passion and Transformation - Jungian perspectives on working with Eros
Various fairytale / Jungian psychoanalysis / working with archetypes short courses
Nervous System Regulation is a Feminist Act (workshop)
I am also certified in Prince2 Practitioner and Foundation since 2018, and Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) since 2019. I am a Mental Health First Aider since 2016. I have a wealth of experience across the voluntary, health, and social care sectors. For an up-to-date CV or to get in touch about Associate Work please contact me.
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