Darci Layke (She/Her) is currently a graduate student at Yorkville University, completing a Masters in Counselling Psychology. Darci is a queer, non-monogamous, transgender, autistic woman, a person who only found herself later in life. She understands the compassion and patience that the journey to self-acceptance can require. 

 

Darci provides an affirming space for neurodivergence, sexualities, and relationship structures that fall outside the traditional. Darci welcomes all clients who are working to be more authentic in their lives, and who have felt challenged to mask or suppress important parts of themselves. 

 

Working from a client-centered, solution-focused perspective, Darci encourages client collaboration and autonomy, and through honest dialogue and support, the development of self-acceptance. Darci’s clients can expect an open, non-judgmental environment, and she welcomes all clients to share freely and seek support and encouragement to live authentically. Darci’s lived experience as well as her professional experience working in the queer, trans, and non-monogamous communities allow her a deep understanding of what it’s like to reveal ourselves and to navigate and negotiate relationships with others.

 

Darci works with individuals and with relationships including couples and other relationship structures. She supplements her advanced Gottman training with other approaches geared toward relationships with self and others.

 

Cultural Identities/Lived Experience: Queer, trans, non-monogamous, autistic