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Digital Seminar

Codependence: Treatment Strategies for Clients Who Lose Themselves in Others


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Speaker:
Nancy L. Johnston, LPC, LSATP, MAC, NCC
Duration:
3 Hours 05 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
09 Jul, 2020
Product Code:
POS056920
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
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Never expires.


Description

Extending far beyond its roots in addictions work, codependence is a universal issue that shows itself in a variety of diagnoses, from anxiety and depression to trauma-related and eating disorders.

Join Nancy Johnston, MS, LPC, LSATP, MAC, NCC, addictions and codependency expert, for this compelling 3-hour webinar designed to provide guidance, insight, and straightforward strategies for clients who are:

  • Over-focused on caring for, fixing, controlling, pleasing, and/or conflict-avoiding 
  • Adult children of an addict 
  • Spending session talking about someone else 
  • Having difficulty allowing their children to become independent 
  • “Too resilient”; downplay suffering, forget how hard something was 
  • Struggling to leave an abusive situation or relationship 
  • Afraid to make necessary changes despite being unhappy  
  • Numb or unaware of what they want or feel
  • And more! 

Taught in everyday language and filled with practical tools, this is a recording you don’t want to miss!

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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.

More information about Nancy and her work is available at her website: https://www.nancyljohnston.com/
 

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.

 


Objectives

  1. Apply the codependency paradigm as an underlying factor for common presenting problems, symptoms and diagnoses.   
  2. Determine the origins of codependent behaviours to support case conceptualization and decrease pathology or stigma.   
  3. Utilize clinical strategies to increase client’s self-understanding, self-awareness, and skills to attend to their internal well-being.   

Outline

Conceptualizing Codependent Dynamics in a Practical Way 

  • Over-functioning for others while under-functioning for the Self 
  • The physical and emotional costs of a “dominant external focus” 
  • Codependence as a precursor to anxiety, depression, and relationship difficulties 
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks 

Assessment:  Broadening Your Lens to Include the Codependence Paradigm 

  • How to identify and address codependence without stigmatizing 
  • Self-understanding (the why), self-awareness (the what), and skill sets (the how) 
  • Addressing the grief that underlies acceptance of reality 
  • What’s missing from the Stages of Change 

Treatment Tools:  Help Clients Detach from Codependence and Anchor Within the Self  

  • Setting goals that make sense 
  • Shifting focus from external to internal 
  • 3-part boundary setting skills 
  • Visuals to illustrate the relationship between the self and others 
  • Building “quiet reactivity” 
  • Breaking through the illusion of control 
  • Daily practices for self-awareness and self-care 
  • And more! 

Case Studies: 

  • 50 y/o mother, overly enmeshed with adult child who repeatedly relapses from alcohol recovery 
  • 36 y/o, depressed and insecure, unsure of role at work, feels excluded and inconsequential  
  • 17 y/o, discouraged and hesitant to share true thoughts and feelings with partner

Target Audience

  • Psychologists 
  • Social Workers 
  • Counselors 
  • Addiction Counselors 
  • Marriage and Family Therapists 
  • Case Managers 

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