Help clients find their way back to themselves.
Codependency shows up in your caseload more than most intake forms ever capture. It hides inside anxiety, depression, chronic relationship conflict, and clients who can describe everyone else's needs in detail but go blank when asked about their own. PESI offers CE-approved training in codependency treatment, built around CBT, DBT, EMDR, and attachment-based strategies you can bring into session right away.
Adult Children of Alcoholics and Addiction (ACoA) Workshop
Although codependency – or loss of self in others – is rooted in addictions work, it is a complex and often overlooked dynamic that underlies many of the issues that bring clients to therapy, includin
You. Here. Today. is a collection of short, grounded reflections that invite you to connect with your authentic self, gently explore your relationships, and learn to trust your inner voice.
Why This Training Matters
It got its start in addictions work, describing the partners and family members who organized their entire lives around someone else's substance use. Decades later, clinicians recognize it as something broader: a relational pattern marked by an external focus, blurred boundaries, and a loss of self that shows up across anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship-focused caseloads, not just in families touched by addiction.
Clients living with codependency often present as the helpers, the fixers, the ones who can't say no. They over-function for others while under-functioning for themselves, and they frequently arrive in your office describing burnout, resentment, or a relationship they can't seem to leave, without ever using the word "codependent." Left untreated, these patterns can deepen into people-pleasing that costs clients their health, chronic guilt around basic boundaries, and vulnerability to narcissistic abuse and trauma bonding.
The clinical picture has caught up with the concept. Codependency treatment today draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, EMDR, somatic approaches, and narrative therapy to help clients rebuild a sense of self, set boundaries without guilt, and recognize the difference between genuine connection and self-erasure. For clients recovering from narcissistic relationships or trauma bonds, this work often overlaps directly with trauma treatment, making codependency training a natural extension of the trauma-informed skill set you already use
Expert Voices
Nancy L. Johnston, MS, LPC, LSATP, MAC, NCC, brings 46 years of clinical experience as a licensed professional counselor and master addiction counselor. She's the author of three books on the topic, including The Clinician's Codependency Treatment Workbook and Disentangle: When You've Lost Your Self in Someone Else, and she runs a twice-yearly "Codependence Camp" for clients working through self-recovery.
Krystal Mazzola Wood, LMFT, is a best-selling author and in-demand trainer known for translating codependency recovery into clear, usable clinical language, drawing on CBT, DBT, EMDR, mindfulness, and narrative therapy.
Amy Marlow-MaCoy, LPC, focuses specifically on narcissistic abuse recovery, helping clinicians recognize the overlap and the differences between codependency, narcissistic abuse, and general emotional abuse, along with the common missteps that can stall treatment.
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