Healing Starts Within,
And Ripples Outward
My Journey from
Healing to Leadership
I'm Dray Fuller, a Trauma-Informed Coach, Speaker, and Therapist-in-training. But before I learned how to help others heal, I had to walk through my own valley.
When I was in the first grade, I came home one day and my mother was gone. She had been sentenced to three years in prison, and I was left alone, confused, scared, and carrying a weight no child should ever have to shoulder. That same year, my sister died. The pain and shock of those losses shaped the most traumatic season of my life.
As I grew older, the trauma I never processed showed up as depression, anger, mood swings, and emotional overload. Eventually, I became tired of feeling controlled by emotions I did not understand. I reached a point where I knew I needed something different. I became determined to heal.
That determination led me on a years-long pursuit of transformation. I studied somatic healing, trauma science, leadership, therapy, and spiritual formation. I practiced nervous system work and began releasing the trauma that had been stored in my body since childhood.
As I healed, I found clarity, purpose, and the tools I needed to rebuild my life from the inside out.
For more than 15 years, ministry was the place where I learned how to walk with people through their deepest struggles. I sat with youth, families, and leaders who were carrying emotions they didn’t know how to express, and I learned how to create the kind of safety that allows people to open up and breathe again. Ministry showed me that real healing doesn’t happen on a stage. It happens in honest, personal connection.
I also spent 13 years as a teacher and mentor, working in schools across Lee County. In classrooms, locker rooms, and difficult hallway conversations, I learned how to reach young people who were hurting beneath the surface. Those years shaped my heart for guiding students through stress, identity struggles, trauma, and the pressure to perform. It was there that I discovered the power of connection, empathy, and steady leadership in a young person’s life.
My professional training spans Caroline Strawson’s Somatic Trauma-Informed Coaching and Leadership Program, a globally recognized certification with CMI Level 7 Master’s-equivalent and ICF/CPD accreditation. I’m also Maxwell Leadership Certified as a Speaker, Trainer, and Coach, trained under the organization founded by John Maxwell, widely recognized as the #1 leadership expert in the world. In addition, I hold Gottman Method Level 1 Couples Therapy and SYMBIS Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts Premarital Counseling and Relationship Assessment Certifications. I'm currently completing my Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Liberty University and serving as a Counseling Intern at Cornerstone Counseling. Lastly, I hold a Bachelors of Science in Elementary Education with a Reading Endorsement for K-12. These combined approaches allow me to support individuals, couples, youth, and leaders with a trauma-responsive, emotionally intelligent, and relationally grounded lens.
Today, I combine somatic healing, trauma-responsive coaching, emotional regulation, leadership development, and faith-aligned emotional wholeness to help people:
🌿Heal emotional wounds
🌿Break unhealthy patterns
🌿Regulate their nervous system
🌿Overcome anxiety and depression
🌿Rebuild relationships
🌿Develop their leadership
🌿Rise into a life of purpose and stability
Whether I am working with a student rediscovering confidence, a couple rebuilding trust, or a leader learning to manage stress with compassion, my focus is always the same.
I help people move from survival to purpose.
And I help them find the freedom I fought to find in my own life.
Credentials + Experience
🌿 15 years as a Minister in Spiritual Leadership & a former Care Pastor
🌿 13 years as an Educator and Mentor Lee County School District
🌿 B.S. in Elementary Education w/ K-12 Reading Endorsement
Florida Southwestern State College
🌿 M.A in Mental Health Counseling Liberty University (in progress)
🌿 Somatic Trauma-Informed Coaching & Leadership Certified Caroline Strawson
ICF & CPD Accredited (Masters Equivalent)
🌿 Maxwell Leadership Certified Speaker, Trainer & Coach Maxwell Leadership
🌿 Gottman Method Couples Therapy L1 Certified The Gottman Institute
🌿 Premarital Counseling and Relationship Certified Facilitator SYMBIS
We rise
by
lifting others.
MISSION
To equip individuals, families, and organizations to grow from the inside out - strengthening emotional health, elevating leadership, and empowering people to live with clarity, purpose, and impact.
A world where healed hearts create stronger leaders, stronger leaders create healthier cultures, and every person rises into the fullness of who they were designed to be.
VISION
THE
FULLER
NATION
The Poetry of Purpose
My wife, Ruthia, and I created The Fuller Nation as a space where words become healing. Through spoken word poetry, we share our story: the victories, the vulnerability, and the lessons that remind us we’re all still becoming.
Our performances aren’t just art; they’re conversations, between hearts that have walked through pain and found purpose on the other side. Together, we speak to the power of love, faith, and resilience. Showing others that healing isn’t a finish line; it’s a rhythm we learn to live in.
What started as two voices finding truth through poetry has grown into a mission to inspire others to rise, reconnect, and remember that their story still matters.
Every poem is an invitation to heal. Together.
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"Healing doesn’t just change your story.
It changes the world your story touches."
- DRAY FULLER