I love my work as a Registered Professional Counselor (RPC), certified EFT (tapping) Practitioner and “Infinite Possibilities” Trainer! It is a great honor to support others to grow and step forward into becoming better versions of themselves, living more freely and creating lives that light them up!

Truth is, as a lifelong learner, numerous other healing modalities are included in my toolkit; Natural Health Consultant, Wellness Counselor and Life Skills Coach, Healing Touch Practitioner, Breathwork Facilitator and the owner of Inner Fitness® Programs (Canada).

With 30 years of counselling experience and training to draw upon, I have an extensive range of specialized skills to draw on; Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), talk therapy, guided meditation, journal work, ecstatic dance and authentic movement and am informed with Somatic, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectic Behavioural Therapy (DBT) too. 

I’ve facilitated hundreds of workshops focusing on life skills, life and work balance, health and wellness, personal growth for change, improving self-esteem, improving relationships, self-hypnosis and also employment skills. In years past, I consulted and taught workshops to real estate and mortgage broker coaching organizations across the USA to infuse holistic, relationship building, health and balance in their personal lives, all-the-while while achieving success in business.  

I am a published author of “Being the BEST YOU – Life in Balance” book (written with Richard Clarke), the co-creator of the Inner Fitness® series of Guided Meditations and have been a contributing writer for several online publications, “Just Business People” magazine and featured in the Globe and Mail newspaper.

You may also know me in my other professions; I’m a professional photographer and pro-furniture refinisher too… transformation pretty much underlies everything I love.

I’m a life-long lover of dance and yoga, being outdoors, cooking and eating clean food, listening to music, gardening and playing.  These are what fuel me.

Transformation is my passion.

If you are ready to transform a part of your world and begin to live more in alignment with vitality and joyful living… it would be my honour to support you.

Please visit the bottom of this page to get our conversation started.

My Story

My life, loves and career paths have unfolded with interesting and fulfilling twists and turns, largely an incredibly rich and full one to feel immensely thankful for. 

To give you an idea of what inspired my personal and professional passion for health and wellness, have a read.  Heads up, it's pretty long, so pour yourself a hot beverage and put your feet up.

I remember being a pretty shy and nervous kid, one of five kids in a loving family.  There were the typical “kid issues” that influenced me (like new homes and new school and feeling like I didn’t fit in, etc.) and unique influences too, such as having an amazing new Dad complete our family when I was just six… the eventual arrival of two more siblings and BALLET.

At the age of eleven, as a young, talented and aspiring prima ballerina with a rigorous training schedule, exams and performances, I started having unexplained collapses of energy while dancing. One minute I’d have the vitality to leap and twirl and then I’d be a weepy, lifeless puddle.  It was puzzling and alarming too.

That is, until finally receiving the Naturopath’s diagnosis of having hypo-glycemia.

Who knew then that this hypo-glycemia (low blood sugar) diagnosis would completely change my life, serving me so well toward what has now been a lifelong commitment and alignment of eating clean nutrient-dense foods, participating in daily self-care activities, movement, yoga and meditation, overall health and wellness. Through energy adversity, the knowledge and subsequent shifts I made became such a gift to my health.

This influence, combined with watching my “kooky, yoga practicing, health nut” Granddad expanded my health and wellness introductions.  As a young girl, little did I know that watching his strange and unfamiliar practices would have on my life… his “weird diet,” his ventures into the desert to collect, dry then drink medicinal herb teas and standing on his head each day.  His wellness commitment became at least part of the catalyst for my passion for health.

Mom's lovely friend "Stephanie"... so alive, keenly involved in health and beauty practices and products... she was someone I aspired to emulate.  She was a role model for me to learn from.

Well, as my adolescent body naturally developed curves and I grew tall, my knees suffering long periods of puffiness, it became clear that a professional career in dance was sadly not going to be my path.   At 18, I got married... so young.

My journey of self-learning began.  Looking back, here's what I know...

I’ve known the pain of being in a very unfulfilling young first marriage that ended quickly... and I sought counseling support.

I've known feeling deeply parched from periods of being achingly asleep within myself.

And, goodness, I’ve experienced applying tools for change and awakened into great abundance in my being and my life.

I've been deeply blessed to experience a 30-year long joyously rich and free, juicy and loving second marriage with a wonderful man (and exceptional Transpersonal therapist), Richard Clarke.  I awakened into knowing my Self through personal growth self-work.   Our 25 year age difference meant "staying awake" together through crystal-clear communication.

It was over these decades that I had the privilege to develop my original therapeutic counselling skills from his insightful approach.  Richard was, and remains, my first and greatest teacher. We loved, travelled a lot and worked side-by-side throughout a long and rewarding personal and professional counseling, teaching and consulting journey together.  

When in my early 50’s I felt the needful stirrings of mid-life change and made the hard choice to set out into independence and living on my own for the first time in my life. Despite our marriage eventually ending, our deep love and soul friendship continues and we are still very much in each others lives.

My new life has been an adventure of "trying out my new wings," getting to know myself ever deeper, sourcing courage and building resiliency, having struggles and great successes too. 

I built two businesses with energy, integrity and loads of creativity (Carolyn Clarke Photography and The Furniture Rejuvenator), felt newfound freedom of expression, leaned into coaching support, and grew in my personal power and expression.  To live more simply and affordably in these crazy-expensive times, I thought creatively "outside the box" and seriously downsized my home.  

The most amazing part of my recent life journey was going back to school at 57 years old, attending Rhodes Wellness College in Vancouver to expand on those previous 30 years in the counseling and personal growth workshop field.  What an immensely rich and rewarding gift this was to the enrichment of my entire being, to my life and my healing profession. 

Carolyn Clarke Wellness Programs.  Full circle, bringing decades of learning and experience together, and soon to incorporate self-portrait photography into my offerings for personal growth. 

In reflection and to summarize...

Through those many role models and mentors of my past and present, I have been inspired and nurtured my personal growth.  My challenges, struggles and transitions ultimately emerged as some of my greatest learning opportunities, inspiring the depth of my education over the years, inviting me forward to make new choices and profound shifts that landed me here today… healthy, alive, filled with love and with deep appreciation for this life adventure and healing profession.  

Through taking radical responsibility for the quality and experience of life have come the most profound insights and inner personal power. 

Life is a continuum of choices to make toward a desired and felt expression of self. 

Transitions are opportunities for personal growth and for creativity to flourish.

Health is a choice. 

We are the makers of our own journey.

Transformation... my passion and guiding gifts to share.

What support do you need?

Whether you lack energy and vitality and want to work toward a healthier you, lift the veil of sagging self-esteem or confidence, recover personal power, come out of stagnant complacency, nurture a troubled relationship, heal old emotions and shift old patterns of thinking, seek deeper life meaning and purpose, need tools for clearer communication... I can help guide you.

As awareness begins to awaken within of the need to make changes, there stirs a glimmering point of possibility to seeing/sensing of a new potential ahead.  This seed of possibility can then become the commitment to investing in yourself and taking the steps forward toward being the best version of yourself.