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Trapped in patterns of fixing, pleasing, or managing everyone around them, codependent clients come to your office, anxious, depressed and in seriously unhealthy relationships.
But sessions are tough as they continually steer the conversation back to someone else – the fear of looking inward pushing them to retreat into the familiar territory of putting others first and themselves last.
If you’re not careful you can end up joining them in trying to solve the problems of others, missing chances for self-discovery and healing.
That’s why recognized codependency expert and author, Nancy Johnston, LPC, created this training – to give you the tools to help your clients develop a deeper understanding of themselves, establish healthier boundaries, and foster more authentic and fulfilling connections with others!
You’ll get:
This is the step-by-step guide for taking clients from codependency to self-recovery. Packed with assessment tools, specific interventions, skill building exercises, case studies and more, there has never been a better chance to get tangible, life-changing results for your clients.
PLUS, you get The Clinician’s Codependency Treatment Workbook FREE when you register!
Purchase today!
Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships
All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners. For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.
PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This program is worth 12.5 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Advanced Codependency Treatment (44.8 MB) | 237 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Nancy L. Johnston, MS, LPC, LSATP, MAC, NCC is a licensed professional counselor and licensed substance abuse treatment practitioner in private practice in Virginia, US. With 49 years of clinical experience, Nancy is master addiction counselor and an American Mental Health Counselors Association (AMCHA) diplomate in substance abuse and co-occurring Disorders.
She has authored four books on codependency: Disentangle: When You've Lost Your Self in Someone Else 2nd Edition (2020), My Life as a Border Collie: Freedom from Codependency (2012), The Clinician’s Codependency Treatment Workbook: 66 Self-Recovery Strategies for Clients Who Lose Themselves in Others (2024), and You. Here. Today. 200 Readings for Growth from Codependency to Self-Recovery (2026).
Nancy has digital seminars produced with PESI for clinicians on treating codependency, including “Codependence: Treatment Strategies for Clients Who Lose Themselves in Others” (2020), “The Codependency Treatment Guide: CBT, Somatic Strategies and More to Disentangle Clients from Dysfunctional Relationships and Recover Self” (2022), and “Advanced Codependency Treatment: A Complete Guide to CBT, Somatic, and Family of Origin Strategies to Disentangle Clients from Toxic Relationships and Recover Self” (2025).
Nancy offers online self-recovery workshops and delights in designing and facilitating Codependence Camp twice/year at a retreat site in Virginia, US. Codependence Camp has been in operation since 2004.
Over the past 26 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, and Specialty Docket Training for the Virginia Supreme Court. She has been a faculty member for the Psychotherapy Networker Symposium and the Ferentz Institute, and her work was included in a New York Times article on enmeshment in relationships.
Nancy writes from her country home on a river in Virginia, US. When she is not teaching or writing, she is enjoying extended time with family and friends, gardening, collaging, writing haiku, dancing, walking in the woods, and sitting by the river.
More information about Nancy and her work is available at her website: https://www.nancyljohnston.com/
Access never expires for this product.
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Intake and Assessment of Clients with Codependent Behaviors
Establish a Therapeutic Relationship with a Codependent Client
Psychoeducation and Early Sessions
Family of Origin and Parts Work to Help Clients Understand their Codependent Characteristics
Somatic and Cognitive Techniques to Enhance Codependent Clients’ Awareness of Body, Mind, Emotions, and Spirit
Skills to Transform Shame, Manage Guilt, Be Assertive, and Set Healthy Boundaries
Exercises and Practices That Help Clients Learn How to Count on Self
Make Self-Recovery a Way of Being
Clinical Applications
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