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
Connecting to our potential for vibrant, and meaningful relationships is more important now than ever as we work to find creative ways to stay in touch while keeping a safe distance. From this place I make it my focus to understand the ways that our past and present circumstances keep us from accessing this potential. Pain, relational or otherwise, can build up over time, become truly...
Through life, you have various goals you are try to accomplish but sometimes can feel as if you have lost your way. With increasing levels of stress, life can become less vivid than it once was. My goal as your therapist is to get you to a space of empowerment, self-control, and understanding. Together, we can find ways to regain control, learn what your emotions are signaling to you, explore...
( English | español ) The challenges of life’s situations, the loss of a loved one, underlying trauma, mental illness, substance misuse, intimate partner violence can bring on feelings of loneliness, sadness, fear, anger, desperation, hopelessness, and grief to name a few. These emotions can at times leave us feeling “not like ourselves,” overwhelmed, and out of control, thereby, interfering wi...
To schedule your first visit with me, please use this online scheduling link - (https://portal.geneticforesight.com/book) --- Each person has a unique reason for being in therapy, and I am here to help each person find those reasons for themselves. Mental health is the lens through which you will be able to see yourself and the world in a clearer light. I recognize that you have been struggling...
I am a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with more than a decade of experience in individual, group, and family psychotherapy, as well as clinical psychiatric research. In my private psychotherapy practice, I work from a values-based and strengths-based empowerment model to help individuals who are facing difficult life transitions, challenging relationship issues, and emotional...
I have extensive skills with adolescents/adults/families yet conceptualize my role as guiding others to vibrantly re-illuminate their lives. My passion for psychotherapy stems from my appreciation for communication as a healing agent, intensified by my MSc. in Speech Pathology from McGill University. When challenged by traumatic medical events, I was struck by patients’ capacity to recover...
We will help you reclaim your peace, your motivation, and your confidence. Feeling stressed, stuck, or overwhelmed drains your joy and throws your life off balance. Therapy can help! Our approach is warm, non-judgmental, and flexible. We have experienced a wide range of cultural backgrounds and we use that experience in therapy. Our approach is informed by ongoing research and constant study of...
I aim to create a safe and compassionate space to help you understand your experiences and relationships with greater ease and more joy. I hope to guide you in connecting to your own wisdom. If you feel ready to receive support as you navigate your emotional experience, I would consider it a great honor to walk with you. I hope our time together will allow you to feel empowered and hopeful. I...
Life can be full of challenges and tribulations that can impact our well being and mental health. I believe our inherent resiliency and adaptability as human beings helps us overcome the many challenges that we face. A strength of therapy is the ability to allow a person to be their true self and to have their strengths and talents fully recognized. My work with clients is grounded in acceptanc...
If you find yourself engaging in the daunting task of looking for a therapist, chances are you have found yourself struggling with the mental and emotional pain caused by depression, anxiety, ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, PTSD, or are simply finding it hard to manage everyday challenges. I create a safe space in which we work together to create a trusting connection in which you can feel empowered to...
Help Me To Help You! I am an experienced Licensed Masters Social Worker. Over the past 34 years, I have had the honor of helping children, adolescents and adults by providing evidenced-based therapy to individual, family, and groups. During my career, I have been a senior therapist, clinical director, drug court evaluator, and educator. I create a relaxed and supportive environment. I use a...
In this day and age it is so hard to be seen and heard, to know if we are “normal” and “fit in with society.” If you are having issues navigating troubled thoughts, unmotivated to reach your goals, concerns with substance abuse, or relationship/ marriage problems, I would love the opportunity to work with you. I meet clients where they are and identify what concerns have brought you to therapy....
Our experiences, both positive and negative, shape who we are, but we don't have to stay stuck where we are. I believe that the opportunity for significant change occurs in healthy relationships; and that healthy relationships are built on trust, mutual respect, and cooperation. In my practice, I seek to create an environment that allows a healthy therapeutic relationship to develop, which can...
I believe that one of the bravest things a person can do is begin to understand their own story. Gaining insight can give you the ability to manipulate anxiety and pain into purpose and peace. You have a unique story, a strong voice, and a place in this world. Together, we can find your voice, your purpose, and your direction in life, so that you can rewrite your story of despair into one of ho...
Michael Gutierrez is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in the State of Massachusetts who has worked as a full-time psychotherapist for the past six years providing therapy services to adults, teenagers and couples. Michael completed his Bachelor of Arts at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va and received his Masters in Social Work at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, MA. Michael u...
