Darcie-Lyn Volkart

Registered Therapeutic Counsellor, ACCT

Relational Somatic Therapist

Hello! I am so glad you’re here!

The fact that you’re reading this speaks to me of a inner-wisdom, willingness, and desire to inquire deeper into your own True Self. Engaging with curiosity into your current state of health and wellness, and your capacity for healing and change. I honor that - so deeply!

I also recognize that the journey to increased health, wellness, personal power, and, ultimately, the freedom to choose, is an adventure best explored with Curious, Compassionate, & Creative support as it can feel so very intimidating and scary to step into the unknown of our psyche, body, emotions, spirit, and behaviors.

We are each a combination of our inter-generational history, our childhood, our traumatic experiences, our joyful experiences (and everything in between), our nervous system baseline, our unconscious patterns, our relationship dynamics, unexpressed emotions, and much more. We are extremely complex and, more importantly, we are extremely resilient. This is a personal experience, and, as science is reminding us, we each have amazing neuroplasticity to create new ways of Being & Living!

Thanks for your inquiry! If you’d like to explore the possibility of working together reach out for a 15 min free consult to see if we’re a good fit!

Professional Experience

I am so grateful to have spent over two and a half decades working in outdoor education, personal growth, mental health and wellness professions. My experience includes individual and group counselling, leading wilderness adventures and connection with the land, teaching ecosystem based educational programs, offering retreats, as well as being a front-line worker and supervisor at a residential wilderness addiction treatment centre (accumulating thousands of direct client hours).

In 2018 I achieved certification as a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor with a focus on Relational Somatic Trauma to support the healing process. I have been registered with the ACCT since and many insurance benefits plans cover my services.

As I am a lover of learning, some additional trainings and certifications include: cognitive behavioral therapy, compassionate inquiry, motivational interviewing, hakomi, therapeutic crisis intervention, assist suicide training, earth-based and spiritual teachings from Indigenous medicine women, elders, and teachers, addiction recovery training, sex & motherhood, and women’s specific nervous system.

My Story

I can honestly say change and thriving is possible because I’ve been there! Through a series of my own “Initiations of Life” including being neurodiverse, adverse childhood experiences, experiencing loneliness and depression, substance and love addiction, multiple miscarriages, becoming a mother (twice), postpartum depression, relationship challenges, and betrayal-trauma, I have experienced, healed, and integrated a lot of Life. What a ride!

I am so grateful that, when the pain was too much to carry alone or I couldn’t see the way forward, I chose to access nature, travel, adventure, as well as a variety of healing earth-based teachings, practitioners, modalities, and plant medicines to bring me to the more healthy, whole, integrated, and embodied version of the Me I am today! I share these personal experiences with the whole-hearted understanding that if I can honestly and radically address and lovingly change these aspects of my self and my past, so can You!

My hobbies include: hanging with and home educating our two rambunctious, inspiring kiddos, quality time with my soul-touching, adventurous hubby, gardening and herbalism, ceremony & planet medicines, mountain biking, spending quality time with my People, learning about traditional cultures, personal growth, and camping ROAD TRIPS!

As Spirituality has been a huge part of my healing journey, it is with Great Reverence I honor, receieve, integrate, and share (when I have been given permission and instructed to) the Teachings of Medicine Women, Elders, and Way-Showers of Metis, Cree, Blackfeet, Sauk, Shipibo, and Quechua Lineages which help us All Remember the Beauty Way and to offer Reconciliation as I continue to learn about and understand it. I am also grateful to be reconnecting with my personal Ancient Lineages for guidance around ReVillaging. All Our Relations!