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For more than 25 years, Darla France has brought messages of hope and healing to churches, schools, college groups, and business organizations. A Certified Trauma Specialist, she is the founder and Director of Counseling and Teaching at LifeTouch Ministries and Counseling Center.

Her signature conferences, When the Pain is Too Deep and Unstuck, have been presented across the USA as well as in Africa, Europe, and Latin America. These seminars are designed to help people with deep emotional pain find healing and return to joy.

Wife, mother, grandmother, and mental-health professional, Darla is currently accepting speaking invitations for events 12 to 18 months in advance.

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Darla France, MA Clinical Counseling, MA Biblical Counseling

Founder and Director of Counseling and Teaching of LifeTouch Ministries and Counseling Center

  • LBC (Licensed Biblical Counselor)
  • LPC (Licensed Pastoral Counselor)
  • Certification in Biblical Studies
  • Certified Trauma Specialist

 

  • Certification and Advanced Training and in Dissociative Disorders
  • Certification in Prayer Ministry
  • Trainer for Casa Missioneria in trauma for all of South America
  • Trainer for the State of Indiana for Masters level counselors in licensure updating

Example Presentations by Darla France

Keynotes

We’re All Keepers Expand

Darla tells the light and delightful story that helps the listener see how we are all “keepers” in God’s eyes. Appropriate for children through adult. Often given for Mother’s Day banquets or programs.

Sheepish Expand

A delightful but meaningful look at how Psalm 23 brings Biblical truth to each listener. Questions are answered including, “Why does God refer to us as sheep in the Bible”?,  “How are we like sheep”? There are four categories of sheep we can relate to in life and even in church settings. How do we become more like our Chief Shepherd?

Remember the Duck Expand

Excellent analogies and storytelling mark this keynote that ties in God’s love and forgiveness. The audience will interact in the experience as Darla helps participants learn about grace and how we are all “seen” by the Lord.

Tracing the Light (Darla’s personal story) Expand

As a child Darla, discovered the “Shepherd," but little did she realize the trauma, betrayal, and hopeless despair she would experience throughout her young life. This is a story of life and hope as each listener comes to see that no life is hopeless or too far gone to be changed.

Serving the Persecuted Church Expand

Jeff and Darla France have been ministering to the persecuted church for the past 8 years. Hear their true account of their own lives being placed in danger and how they learned the most valuable character trait of God from those who are suffering.

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Conference Series

Unstuck! Returning People to Joy Expand

The world is a fracturing place.  Sometimes we feel stuck in overwhelming emotions and cannot find our way out.  Yet within each of us is a God-given drive to withstand life’s assaults and live in Joy.

Created for the lay person, professional, or the one who feels “stuck” in distress or a distressing situation, this conference is a cross-cultural and cross-denominational message of hope for all those who have been wounded by living in this world. Information for this workshop includes but is not limited to:

  • What is Biblical joy and how does it play a part in getting us “un-stuck” from where we are? How is joy different from happiness?
  • How do we get “stuck” in life’s circumstances?
  • How do we get “stuck” in our emotions?
  • What are universal emotions that we experience and how do they affect our lives?
  • How do we get “un-stuck” from situations and past and current pain?
  • Principles of believing lies versus truth in our lives.
  • How do we know we are believing a lie and how do we eradicate it?
  • How do we behave what we believe and what principles are involved in Biblical thinking?

This training is best given in a one-day/one and a half day training format: Appropriate for lay persons as well as those who serve someone who is hurting emotionally from past or present events.

Five to Thrive Expand

This workshop is a powerful tool for equipping those who minister to people with deep emotional pain. Attendees will learn the four elements needed to move from victim to survivor to THRIVER.

Every person needs:

  •  A life-giving relationship with Jesus and community. This is the foundation of thriving.
  • A Place to Belong: Why is Belonging to God and others so important? What is the emotional pain of someone who does not feel they belong?
  • A Place to Give and Receive Life: Defining what it means to give and receive in life giving relationships. Why is giving and receiving in balance so important in recovery and in life? What is the emotional pain of someone who cannot give and receive in balance?
  • A Place to Recover from Trauma: Defining the different types of trauma, and the way it affects our body, soul, and spirit.
    • Defining the four major emotions we experience and what happens if we get stuck in one of them.
    • Memory: What is memory and how does our brain remember events? How do we deal with painful memories from our past? What is the emotional pain of someone who has experienced trauma?
  • A Place to Strive for Maturity: Maturity requires a secure bond between two people. What does it mean to be bonded in fear to another person vs. bonded in love? What is the emotional pain of someone who cannot reach maturity?

This training can best be given in a one-day format. However, it ha also been adapted for a half day or a keynote presentation. This training has also been used for Church staff members and leaders.

When the Pain is Too Deep (for children and those who assist them) Expand

Helping the Traumatized Child and Those Who Assist Them

Advocacy for children is an important mission whether your role is to protect, guide or provide therapy for children who have been traumatized.  This workshop will help you understand how traumatic experiences affect children and what caregivers can do to foster the healing process from trauma.  Training will include the topic of when children verbally, physically and/or sexually abuse other children. These children are at high risk to be placed in foster homes and with other children. Their behaviors are manifested through coercion, force, intimidation and secrecy.

 

Shadow of His Wings Expand

A training on Spiritual Warfare.

Learning how Satan operates, and becoming fixated on him, are two very different things.

This conference contains balanced, Biblical perspectives on Satan, the lies (deceptions) he uses to put and keep mankind in bondage, and on the finished work of the Cross of Jesus Christ, the Christian’s defense against and freedom from Satan’s lies.

This workshop is for individuals, couples, parents and those in ministry.

Personal Growth Workshops

Shame Off You Expand

What is shame and how can it develop in us? What are the effects and behaviors of living with a shame identity? A Biblical and clinical viewpoint are both given in this informative and helpful training. Some who have participated in this training have said,

“This was life-changing for me. I never understood what a “shame identity” was before and how it was keeping me for joy.”

“Shame” was so helpful to me as a lay minister. I not only got a handle on what it really is, but how I can help those whom I minister to in my calling.

The Poverty Mindset Expand

A poverty mindset can be present in a person of any socio-economic level. Learn what defines this kind of mindset and how it limits our thinking to settling for much less than our God has intended for us. Questions will address, what defines a poverty mindset? And what behaviors are part of this mindset? and how does this kind of mindset limit our faith in God?

Who Am I? Finding our Identity Expand

We all have received messages that have shaped who we are today. Many times these messages are destructive and contrary to what God says and thinks about us.

Mark 12:30-31:  “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’[a] 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] There is no commandment greater than these.”

The Message describes verse 31 as: “Love others as well as you love yourself.”

God wants us to believe what He says about us, not the lies we have been told by others, and believed about ourselves . He wants us to love ourselves so we can be more effective in our love and service to others.

Integrating the Biblical and the Clinical in Counseling Sessions (for clinicians) Expand

How do counselors who have primarily been trained in clinical practices bring truths from the Bible to their clients? Bringing balance and truth to the hurting is taught through practical applications and techniques. Instruction in effectively using prayer during sessions is also taught.

This works effectively as a half-day training.

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