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 am a therapist who pays careful attention to you, who you are, who you want to be, and how you will get there. In therapy, I place primary importance on helping you have the sense that whatever you are going through is more manageable because we are both working on it together. I have been successful in working with many types of individuals, with a large variety of issues. Please explore...
It usually takes couples about 6 years to get help for problems in their relationship or marriage. While there are many reasons for that, it's a long time to be unhappy. Couples/marriage counseling works, even after infidelity and other significant events. Sexual and intimate issues are also very common but difficult to discuss. I have many years of experience with these challenges and create a...
I have developed knowledge on various types of therapy and can understand the daily stresses of living in a hectic and demanding Manhattan lifestyle. I aim to help my clients develop a positive outlook and provide empathy and support for them to ultimately maintain success. I believe that the therapeutic alliance is essential to the healing process and I strive to create a trusting environment...
As an addiction treatment counselor and a marriage and family therapist I enjoy working with clients who struggle with life changes, maladaptive coping mechanisms, and relationship and sexuality issues. You are the expert on your problems. As a therapist I am there to witness, guide, point out clues that you may have missed, and cheer-lead the progress as therapeutic gains are made. I am...
What if you only knew the wonder that has truly been you all along? Welcome to the safe discovery of your true self beyond life's past and present struggles and learn to feel better having improved skills to heal and thrive. Using a blend of psychotherapy along with (at times) art therapy techniques, I work with you in an empowerment and strength-based style to provide opportunities for your...
Life changes. Some life changes can be anticipated or predicted; some occur spontaneously, without notice or warning. Regardless of how they occur, all require adaptation and adjustment to what is different or new. We seldom have much difficulty with small changes—those that don’t disrupt a familiar lifestyle or a solid sense of self. Other life changes can be more challenging, sometimes making...
My specialty is working with clients that have concerns related to their childhood/relationships or are looking to introspect deeply and reconnect with themselves. Perhaps you grew up in a toxic household and notice some lingering feelings. Sometimes it isn't until we begin or end a relationship that we notice we have certain issues that we need to address. Or, is there a part of you that feels...
Joellen Marion is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor. Joellen earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology with a minor in Biology from Eastern Michigan University in 2010. Joellen went on to earn her Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from Western Michigan University in 2013. While obtaining her degrees, Joellen continued to work in a variety of settings with a wide range of client...
I give my full, non-judgmental attention when my clients and I are mutually exploring their concerns, and I'm active and responsive to clients' agendas as we work on the practical changes they're seeking. Establishing a safe, loving space is vital to this process. I've learned that back behind a variety of issues, there are common roots. For example, many of us suffer from unhelpful thoughts th...
Life can be challenging at times. During the therapeutic process, I look at how our environment, life experience, and current relationships have an impact on the decisions we make. I work with adults, young adults, families and adolescents who experience anxiety, depression, addiction, low self-worth, career transitions and relationship issues. I strongly believe in empowering, educating,...
Welcome! First and foremost, I believe your pain is real, and that you deserve space to be seen and heard in it. I work with people across many areas, but those who seek me out tend to be queer/LGBTQIAA2+, trans/non-binary/gender non-conforming, chronically or acutely ill, disabled, fat-identified and/or working on an empowered relationship with their body, polyamorous, kinky, sex workers, and...
Hey there, I am about real relationships and journeying together, taking the road of strengthening and change. With new found insights of ourselves and others, this new angle will allow change, one interaction at time, to take root into your relationships. I am here to travel this transformational road. Relationships are messy-it is how we deal with and manage the mess that makes all the...
Through awareness and support I believe we are all able to heal and grow to live the lives we love and thrive in. I am Licensed Master of Social Work, pleased to offer online therapy throughout the state of Arizona for those who are either unable to commute to our offices in Tempe or who prefer the flexibility and convenience that online therapy has to offer. The majority of my professional...
I seek to humanize mental health struggles and champion therapy to everyone as the path to normalizing and living a healthy, active, fulfilling life. Freedom, self confidence, courage, a healthy sense of self; what's stopping you? Barriers to self actualization exist, often buried deep within the layers of experience, trauma, divorce, unmet needs, unhealed hurts, depression, anxiety, less than...
Nothing is more satisfying than helping people become empowered, ease their suffering & fears, create loving relationships, expand their consciousness, & make breakthroughs to understand themselves more deeply. I’m no stranger to transformation myself. My life has been a series of deaths and re-births. I love what the Sufi Saint & poet Rabia wrote - “I died a thousand times before I died.” Yes....
