Advanced Codependency Treatment: A Complete Guide to CBT, Somatic, and Family-of-Origin Strategies to Disentangle Clients from Toxic Relationships and Recover Self
Trapped in patterns of fixing, pleasing, or managing everyone around them, codependent clients come to your office, anxious, depressed and in seriously unhealthy relationships.
But sessions are tough as they continually steer the conversation back to someone else – the fear of looking inward pushing them to retreat into the familiar territory of putting others first and themselves last.
If you’re not careful you can end up joining them in trying to solve the problems of others, missing chances for self-discovery and healing.
That’s why recognized codependency expert and author, Nancy Johnston, LPC, created this training – to give you the tools to help your clients develop a deeper understanding of themselves, establish healthier boundaries, and foster more authentic and fulfilling connections with others!
You’ll get:
Assessment tools to identify codependent behaviors at intake
CBT, somatic, and family-of-work based strategies to shift client focus to self-awareness and self-consideration
Techniques for managing fixing, pleasing, and other behaviors that go too far
And so much more!
This is the step-by-step guide for taking clients from codependency to self-recovery. Packed with assessment tools, specific interventions, skill building exercises, case studies and more, there has never been a better chance to get tangible, life-changing results for your clients.
PLUS, you get The Clinician’s Codependency Treatment WorkbookFREE when you register!
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Nancy L. Johnston, MS, LPC, LSATP, MAC, NCC, is a licensed professional counselor and licensed substance abuse treatment practitioner in private practice in Lexington, VA, US. With 48 years of clinical experience, Nancy is a Master Addiction Counselor and an American Mental Health Counselors Association (AMCHA) Diplomate in substance abuse & co-occurring disorders.
She has authored three books on codependency - two published by Central Recovery Press: Disentangle: When You’ve Lost Your Self in Someone Else 2nd Edition (2020) and My Life as a Border Collie: Freedom from Codependency (2012) and the third published by PESI Publishing: The Clinician’s Codependency Treatment Workbook (2024).
Nancy has two digital seminars produced with PESI for clinicians on treating codependency: “Codependence: Treatment Strategies for Clients Who Lose Themselves in Others” (2020) and “The Codependency Treatment Guide: CBT, Somatic Strategies and More to Disentangle Clients from Dysfunctional Relationships and Recover Self” (2022).
Nancy offers online self-recovery workshops and delights in designing and facilitating Codependence Camp twice/year in person at a retreat site in VA. Codependence Camp has been in operation since 2004.
Over the past 25 years Nancy has presented at numerous conferences including the Cape Cod Symposium on Addictive Disorders, the Carolinas Conference for Addiction and Recovery, Addiction: Focus on Women, the Virginia Summer Institute for Addiction Studies, the American Mental Health Counselors Association’s Annual Conference, the Virginia Counselors Association’s Annual Conference, Specialty Docket Training for the Virginia Supreme Court, and the Psychotherapy Networker Symposium 2025.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Nancy Johnston maintains a private practice and is an independent contractor with Dr. Kuley and Associates. She receives royalties as a published author. Nancy Johnston receives a speaking honorarium from Virginia Summer Institute for Addiction Studies. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Nancy Johnston is a member of the American Mental Health Counselors' Association, the Virginia Counselors' Association, the National Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors, and the Virginia Association of Addiction Professionals.
Identify functioning patterns exhibited by codependent individuals
Use assessment tools to identify the dominant external orientation of codependent clients.
Choose psychoeducational interventions that clarify the precise nature of codependency to clients.
Examine how codependency influences responses to the person’s own feelings of vulnerability.
Evaluate the potential correlation between codependency and growing up in a family environment where children are parentified.
Identify the intra/interpersonal dynamics of codependency .
Evaluate the potential link between codependency and the selection of partners with problematic behavior.
Identify countertransference dynamics in codependency treatment.
Use thoughts, feelings, inclinations, and needs to develop an authentic sense of self.
Utilize cognitive therapy interventions to foster positive changes in self-awareness, self-image, and interpersonal communications within the context of codependency treatment.
Use somatic strategies to help clients safely ground and calm self so they can attend more fully to their body, mind, and emotions.
Choose skills sets to help codependent clients address their emotional expression, shame, guilt, assertiveness, and boundary setting.
Develop a working knowledge of self-attunement to help clients cultivate a secure, safe, and reliable relationship-with-self.
Outline
Intake and Assessment of Clients with Codependent Behaviors
Identify codependency in a variety of clients – how it looks in therapy
Dominant external focus: other-centered
Loss of self in someone else
Behavior vs. label
Assessment tools for codependent characteristics
Relationship patterns/themes to look for
Codependency in clients presenting with anxiety, depression
Connect internally as a foundational treatment goal
Research, risks and treatment limitations
Case Study: a 57-year-old primary caregiver for his mother who is developing memory problems
Establish a Therapeutic Relationship with a Codependent Client
Foster your client’s autonomy and join their stage of change
Ingredients of change
Avoid becoming the client’s external source of direction
Strategies for self-empowerment from the very first session
Manage countertransference & your own codependency
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