Codependency describes relationships where one person sacrifices their needs for the other, often leading to feelings of resentment, anxiety, and emptiness. Codependent relationships can occur between a parent and child, partners, or friends. These relationships may quickly spiral into toxicity and can leave one or both people hurt.
Available Treatment Options
Therapists for codependency involve examining a person’s thinking patterns to understand why they think and behave the way they do. Once this recognition sets in, people can then work toward changing their behavior. Other therapeutic techniques include practicing setting boundaries in the relationships, practicing self-care, and finding coping mechanisms that work when they feel intense emotions related to the relationship.
Therapists Who Specialize in Helping Those Who Struggle With Codependency
I have always liked this quote: "People who need help sometimes look a lot like people who don't need help." I am drawn to this quote and to counseling because I am a person who has lived through a storm or two. And, although your storm and mine may not look the same, I believe we all have common needs: to heal from something in our past, to overcome stress, fear and anxiety that makes us feel...
Hi! I’m Aracely, I first want to commend you in taking the first step in creating positive change for yourself. Let me first start by telling you about my clinical style. It is very hands on, I will push you, encourage you, keep you accountable, strengthen you all while assisting you in accomplishing the goals you have set for yourself. During our work together, I will also provide you with a...
Being stuck is scary, painful and frustrating. You get locked into worrying. You feel pressure to do things perfectly. It's hard to make decisions. Anxiety makes it hard to sleep. Addictions might arise: food, sex, substance or over working. You might think "something is horribly wrong and I must fix it NOW!" It's really tricky to be a human being sometimes. I have worked with clients for 30 ye...
Identifying and expressing your emotional experience can be difficult. What if talking isn't enough? As a Creative Arts Therapist, Music Therapist, and Credentialed Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor, I can offer you talk therapy with the option of using creative arts tools to assist you in your process. I work from a supportive and psychodynamic approach, letting the client's needs be the...
Therapy doesn't have to last forever but the benefits will. Most issues people face are relational in nature. There are emotions and behaviors that are problematic. These might include feelings of shame, discontentment, apathy, anger or even numbness. The behaviors might range from avoidance to compulsive and addictive. Are you experiencing problems with yourself or others? In therapy, you'll...
Many of my clients are coping with complex medical conditions that are impacting their daily health and welfare. They are often dealing with challenges associated with aging, disability, and illness such as depression, anxiety, adjustment disorders, social isolation, chronic pain, dementia, grief, and end of life. My clients want to be able to continue to enjoy life, maintain relationships, and...
Helena Washington has worked in behavioral health for over 25 years. Finding her passion helping individuals and families heal from internal conflict, Helena honed her skills working with co-occurring health challenges, with life adjustment, failure to launch & addiction. With a genuine heart, she focuses on wholistic mental wellness, addiction recovery, the impacted family and associated traum...
It's all about relationships, starting with your relationship to yourself, your family of origin, your partner, children, friends. And then there's the relationship to your problems: things like depression, anxiety, ADHD, post-partum and parenting stress, body-image problems. How do you work with the set of challenges that life hands you? I work with clients to understand themselves and their o...
I AM CURRENTLY FULL AND NOT ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS AT THIS TIME. Whether you are looking to improve relationships or your functionality it will be my honor to walk alongside you as you move through the growth opportunities of life in your personal success journey. Family therapy, Individual Therapy, Re-entry issues, Youth 12+, Depression, Anxiety, Bi-Polar, and PTSD I look forward to supporting ...
Welcome, brave soul! Oftentimes, it can be a challenge to ask for help or know when to ask for help. I'm here to reassure you that you're taking the a step in the direction toward wellness and self-help as you allow me to be part of that journey. My goal in our collaborative work together is to provide a safe and non-judgmental environment in which you will feel heard, accepted, and supported. ...
How would you like to create meaning in your life? What would it look like to fulfill your dreams and achieve happiness? Do you live in fear, anger, and sadness wondering how to sustain joy? My goal is to help you generate insight about your life. Identify your needs and wants and teach you how to communicate this to yourself and others. Manage interfering thoughts and behaviors that may limit...
I see therapy as a collaborative process. In a sense, you are my guide—and I am yours. Together, we will explore your life and seek for an embodied understanding of your path toward well-being—as defined by you and your goals. You are the expert of your own experience. I fully respect and celebrate this fact, and encourage in all my clients the growth of self-awareness, creativity, intuition,...
Mental illness and addiction can destroy lives. Recovery and treatment can restore your soul. One of the biggest obstacles in the way of helping yourself regain control of your mind and life is the first step of reaching out for help. I use an integrative treatment approach that includes: cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, motivational interviewing, solution focused, an...
Are you tired of staying small and playing it safe? Do you find yourself spending all of this anxious energy trying not to be so sensitive because you learned early on your feelings are a bad thing? Are you wanting to show up in a way that feels more authentic to you, but you can’t seem to figure out how? Imagine what it would be like to feel good being yourself. There wouldn’t be so much of a...
Cesar has years of experience working with the military, veterans, and civilian populations, having served in the US Army as a clinical combat chaplain and assigned to reserve and active duty positions at the Battalion, Brigade, and Division levels where he was also given responsibilities with the army’s suicide and substance abuse prevention programs. He received training in Acceptance Commitm...
