Dandelion Seed Counselling by Jody Tkach

10/21/2024

Dandelion Seed Counselling invites you to slow down and learn the lessons of the fall season. Jody Tkach can give you the support you need to reap the benefits of this chance to reflect.
Jody has the experience and education to help you turn inward and see what you need to do to create real change. Everyone is different, and therapy for one person shouldn't be exactly the same for another. Jody takes the time to develop a relationship as unique as you are to provide care and support that really works. Learn the lessons of autumn; learn to let go of what doesn't serve you, change for the better, find hope, and finally slow down and rest. Get the help you need this season with Jody Tkach at Dandelion Seed Counselling.
Check out the website for more information https://dandelionseed.ca/ or book now at https://dandelionseed.janeapp.com/ for in-person or online appointments

10/01/2024

Dandelion Seed Counselling knows many of you have been moving through life thinking how you feel isn't important. When you believe your feelings and emotions do not matter, you may push these feelings and emotions away. However, when we do not acknowledge our feelings and emotions they can often manifest in unhealthy ways, including depression, anxiety, and perfectionism.
Therapy with Jody Tkach can help. Jody has the dedication and training to help you bring these underlying emotions to the surface where they can be felt and acknowledged. Jody will create a safe and supportive space where your emotions will be treated with the importance they deserve. With practice, Jody will help you understand how to identify, feel, and process emotions so they no longer create unhealthy symptoms in your body. Symptoms which include unhealthy coping mechanisms, like depression and anxiety, as well as more physical manifestations including stress, pain, bowel and stomach issues, and more.
You are important. Come to a therapist that will make you feel it.
Check out the website for more information https://dandelionseed.ca/ or book now at https://dandelionseed.janeapp.com/ for in-person or online appointments

08/21/2024

Working Outside the Home-
A Mental Health Group for New Mothers

Do you need support: Returning to work outside the home, Managing negative feelings
Navigating conflicting feelings and Learning practical skills to help this transition.

Runs August 28- September 18
(Wednesdays, 6-7pm)
Maximum 8 people. Please attend each session. Infants 18mo. and under welcome.
$50 per session, per person. Full cost due at time of booking.

Contact:
jodytkach@dandelionseed.ca
To book your spot and for site information.

04/30/2024

Dandelion Seed Counselling understands you may have tried therapy before without success. Jody Tkach can help.

Jody Tkach can provide support that works because it is based on your own strengths and needs. Jody has the experience and insight to guide you towards therapy that works for you because it is made for you. Jody does not provide one size fits all, manual-based therapy. Jody provides the space and has the education to help you uncover your own unique strengths, identifying things you want to improve to live according to your own values and beliefs. Jody believes you should be who you want to be. Clarifying what this means can help you live the life you want, how you want.

Living a life in line with your values and beliefs makes relationships easier, improves symptoms of anxiety and depression, and helps you focus you energy on what is important. Only you know how to live your best life. Let Jody Tkach at Dandelion Counselling help you find out how. Check out the website for more information https://dandelionseed.ca/ or book now at https://dandelionseed.janeapp.com/ for in-person or online appointments.

04/23/2024

Dandelion Seed Counselling acknowldeges parents try the best they can. Many parents are burdened with the unresolved issues of the generation before. This can lead to a cycle of criticism moving from one generation to the next. Talk therapy with Jody Tkach can help stop this cycle.

Jody can help you notice your inner critic, that negative voice inside, and why it says what it does. Once you understand what it is saying, Jody will help you find ways to push back with positive self talk that fits for you and your circumstances. Positive self talk can help reduce the power of the generational issues you still carry, and stop you passing these criticisms to your own children.

Stopping the cycle takes work, you don't have to do it alone. Get support with Jody Tkach at Dandelion Seed Counselling. Check out the website for more information https://dandelionseed.ca/ or book now at https://dandelionseed.janeapp.com/ for in-person or online appointments.

04/16/2024

Dandelion Seed Counselling understands that sometimes it can be hard. People who are living with the challenge of depression can struggle with what seems like the simplest things. This daily struggle can make positive change for the future seem hopeless. Jody Tkach can help.

Jody wants to help you shift your thinking. When you are struggling, small tasks can be seen as big wins; Every step a positive step. These wins and positives start to add up and shift our inner negative critic. Jody can support you in finding the wins in everyday life that can shift our focus from depression to a clearer view of just how strong you are.

You can create the life you deserve, with a little support from Jody at Dandelion Seed Counselling. Check out the website for more information https://dandelionseed.ca/ or book now at https://dandelionseed.janeapp.com/ for in-person or online appointments.

03/12/2024

New group starts next week. We would love to see a couple more mothers join.

Sessions are: March 20 & 27, April 3, 10, 17, & 24, and May 1 & 8, 2024 in Parksville
For women with infants under 1 year of age (either first-time mothers or women with more than one child), who have symptoms of depression, anxiety, stress, and anger.
For women who have experienced birth trauma. For women who are experiencing difficulties in current relationships.

This support group provides information, support, and skills to increase attachment between mother and child, reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression, and improve the overall experience of motherhood. Infants under 1 year are welcome to attend sessions. Group work is most successful when you attend all the sessions in each set.

Go to https://dandelionseed.ca/groups/ for more information and a list of topics.
Book at https://dandelionseed.janeapp.com/locations/shelly-road-centre/book /1
Sessions can be paid for individually or as a set. Receipts provided.

Now Seeing New Clients, In Person or Online https://dandelionseed.janeapp.com Mental Health Support for Mothers – Next Group Starts March 20, 2024 in Parksville. Space is limited. Book now at Shelly Road location. Click on ‘Groups’ to learn more! And the dandelion does not stop growing because...

03/06/2024

Dandelion Seed Counselling wants to help you connect with your younger self. Lots of us have experiences in childhood that were negative, and some of these experiences have affected how we move through the world as adults. These childhood experiences can lead to anxiety, depression, and difficulty in relationships. Unfortunately, we can't change our past, but, with inner child work, we can shift our perspective of the past.

Jody Tkach has the experience and knowledge to help you explore your past and meet your inner child. You can help shift perspective when you look on childhood experiences with all the knowledge of your adult life. Connecting with your past self can help heal childhood trauma by giving you the love and care you always deserved. Jody provides a safe space to explore your past and sit with your childhood self with love and acceptance. Once your inner child feels the love they always needed you can begin to move on from negative childhood experiences.

Practice some inner child work and begin the life you deserve. Check out the website for more information https://dandelionseed.ca/ or book now at https://dandelionseed.janeapp.com/ for in-person or online appointments.

02/28/2024

Dandelion Seed Counselling wants you to know that therapy is not meant to cure, it is meant to help you live. Many of us are carrying a load. The load of childhood trauma, anxiety, depression, difficult relationships, pain, and self-doubt; one or all of these things can be heavy to bear. Many want to find a way to be cured of the past, yet therapy will not make the past go away. Jody Tkach can help you learn to live with all your life experiences, including the heavy ones.
Jody has the experience and insight to help you look at the past and understand how it affects you in the present. It can be difficult and painful to open all the pandora boxes of our lived moments, and Jody can be the safe, non-judgmental guide you need to open up your past. Jody will then help you walk with your past and it's hardships without having them weigh you down in the present.
You are amazing because of all that makes you who you are, including the heavy things. Learn to love and live with all of you.
Check out the website for more information https://dandelionseed.ca/or book now at https://dandelionseed.janeapp.com/ for in-person or online appointments.

02/15/2024

New group starting This Spring! Sessions are: March 20 & 27, April 3, 10, 17, & 24, and May 1 & 8, 2024 in Parksville

For women with infants under 1 year of age (either first-time mothers or women with more than one child), who have symptoms of depression, anxiety, stress, and anger.
For women who have experienced birth trauma. For women who are experiencing difficulties in current relationships.

This support group provides information, support, and skills to increase attachment between mother and child, reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression, and improve the overall experience of motherhood. Infants under 1 year are welcome to attend sessions. Group work is most successful when you attend all the sessions in each set. Go to https://dandelionseed.ca/groups/ for more information and a list of topics.

Book at https://dandelionseed.janeapp.com/locations/shelly-road-centre/book /1

Sessions can be paid for individually or as a set. Receipts provided.

Now Seeing New Clients, In Person or Online https://dandelionseed.janeapp.com Mental Health Support for Mothers – Next Group Starts March 20, 2024 in Parksville. Space is limited. Book now at Shelly Road location. Click on ‘Groups’ to learn more! And the dandelion does not stop growing because...

02/06/2024

Grief, anxiety, divorce, parenthood; Dandelion Seed Counselling acknowledges that life isn't always what we thought it would be. Instead of trying to hold onto what life 'should' have, or 'could' have been, it is better to understand and hold on to what life is, in all its perfections and mistakes. This is not always easy.
Therapy with Jody Tkach can help. Jody Tkach provides the expertise you need to understand where your life has taken you and how to enjoy where you are. Some people are stuck in a life that is harmful and they need to make changes; they need to focus on making a new life. Others are missing the joy of their real life by regretting what cannot be changed. Jody can help you see the difference. Once people become aware of the true nature of their experience, and the meaning they give to it, life becomes more enriching and easier.
Start finding joy in the life you have built.
Check out the website for more information https://dandelionseed.ca/or book now at https://dandelionseed.janeapp.com/ for in-person or online appointments.

02/01/2024

Dandelion Seed Counselling wants you to take up space in the world. In childhood, being yourself may have been met with censure or ridicule. You may have felt that people pulled away from you, or treated you unkindly when you asked for what you needed to feel loved and wanted. These experiences can create unhealthy coping mechanisms, including anxiety, depression, people-pleasing and perfectionism. Therapy with Jody Tkach can help.
Jody can explore your past for times when you asked to be loved and were met with rejection and abandonment, even just the perception of these things can cause maladaptations in adulthood. Jody can help you realise that you, just as you are, are worthy of love and support. As you realise your past experiences had more to do with others and less to do with you, you will be able to be more yourself. You will be able to handle rejection from those who don't deserve you and enjoy those who see you for the great person you are. Sure, you aren't perfect, but you are worth taking up space and making waves.
Learn how to feel comfortable being you. Check out the website for more information https://dandelionseed.ca/or book now at https://dandelionseed.janeapp.com/ for in-person or online appointments.