Fund Me, KC: Portrayals XR crowdfunds next step in building its immersive healing space

Startland News is continuing its long-running “Fund Me, KC” series to highlight area entrepreneurs’ efforts to accelerate their businesses or lend a helping hand to others. This is an opportunity for business owners and innovators — like Tricia Keightley and her immersive healing platform — to share their crowdfunding stories and potentially gain backing from new supporters.

The campaign is wholly led by the entrepreneur and not affiliated with or endorsed by Startland News.

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Who are you?

I am Tricia Keightley the founder of Portrayals XR and an entrepreneur for more than 14 years. I’ve spent my career helping people bring their dreams to life whether through building their brand, launching their business, or doing the deep inner work required to actually feel aligned with what they’re creating. I’m certified in neuro-linguistic programming, trained in inner child healing, and currently completing a certification in neuropsychology. I’m also a total book nerd, especially when it comes to anything about spirituality, healing, or reprogramming the subconscious mind.

Portrayals XR is the culmination of that journey. It’s not just a tech platform; it’s a sacred space for transformation, designed to help people reconnect with the parts of themselves they’ve forgotten, shut down, or never felt safe to explore.

What does your campaign hope to accomplish?

This crowdfunding campaign is about scaling impact and accessibility. We’re launching Portrayals XR to the public this fall, and the funds raised will help us finish development, finalize our mobile and VR apps, and build out a practitioner portal so coaches, therapists, and healers can integrate this into their work.

It’s not just about building tech; it’s about creating a healing movement.

Click here to learn more about the campaign.

What’s your ‘why?’

Like many others, I experienced the limitations of talk therapy and mindset work. It helped me survive but it didn’t help me fully heal. True healing happens on a deeper level, where the body, mind, and spirit come back into connection. One night, I woke up with a clear, divine download, an unshakable knowing that Portrayals XR was what I was meant to create. It wasn’t just an idea; it is my life’s purpose.

This platform was born from that moment and from my own healing journey. I needed something more immersive. More experiential. Something that could reach the subconscious and bring the parts of me I had buried back into safety and wholeness.

Portrayals XR exists to give that same experience to others. Our “why” is deeply personal: to help people reconnect with their inner world and experience the breakthroughs that truly change lives.

How much do you hope to raise with the crowdfunding campaign?

Our goal is to raise $100,000 to bring this vision to life. This milestone will allow us to finish development, expand content offerings (like grief, future self, and sound healing modules), onboard our first group of wellness practitioners and business development team. So far we have been bootstrapping with a lean team of three-plus developers. We are ready to put this out into the world! 

How do you plan to use the funds?

The funds will go toward

• Finalizing the VR and mobile app experience;
• Building the backend practitioner portal;
• Recording new immersive experiences (grief, sound healing, couples healing);
• Launching a pilot training group for certified practitioners;
• Marketing to spread awareness and grow our community; and
• Attorneys for Protecting IP.

Anything else our readers should know about Portrayals XR or this effort?

Portrayals XR isn’t just another wellness app, it’s a first-of-its-kind healing tool that lets you step into a safe, immersive space and reconnect with the parts of you that need love, reparenting, and release. We’re also building a focus group of wellness professionals who want to stop trading time for money and instead create scalable impact through this technology.

If you’re a coach, therapist, or healer, we’d love to connect.

Click here to learn more about a focus group that will meet in late July.

We are also gathering insights about this project as we build traction to prove to investors that the market is ready for Portrayals XR.

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