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You see these clients all the time. Preoccupied with others, people with co-dependence issues desperately try to please, manage, or fix those in their closest relationships.
After years of putting their own needs aside these clients become stuck in externally focused self-sacrificing patterns they don’t even recognise. By the time they show up in your office with anxiety, depression, and significant relationship issues they’ve completely lost their true selves.
But knowing what to do with these clients in therapy can be exasperating as again and again they shift the focus of sessions away from themselves and toward others. Their unwillingness to drop down into their own emotions, thoughts, and actions can leave you feeling demoralised and drained as you spin your wheels session after fruitless session. If you’re not careful, you can end up joining the client as they look to solve their own problems by solving the problems of others.
Nancy Johnston has been a therapist for over 40 years and is an expert in the field of codependent relationships. The author of Disentangle: When You’ve Lost Your Self in Someone Else, Nancy has helped thousands of clients extricate themselves from toxic codependency, connect with self, and live with more peace and confidence.
She’ll share the clinical tools and strategies you need to help clients break free from codependency, better balance their care of self and others, and achieve self-recovery.
Full of instantly useable cognitive strategies, somatic techniques, visual tools, case studies, and exercises, you’ll be able to:
You’ve seen codependent clients in your practice for so long now. Don’t pass on this expert-led training so you can achieve incredible results and set clients on the path to living life for themselves.
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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.
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| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - The Codependency Treatment Guide (13.7 MB) | 140 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - The Codependency Treatment Guide - French (13.7 MB) | 140 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - The Codependency Treatment Guide - Italian (13.7 MB) | 140 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - The Codependency Treatment Guide - German (13.7 MB) | 140 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - The Codependency Treatment Guide - Spanish (13.7 MB) | 140 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 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.
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Build Self-Competence in Codependent Clients:
Strategies to Set Healthy Boundaries, Quiet Guilt, Manage Anxiety and More
Increasing Self-Empowerment and Self-Attunement:
Exercises and Practices That Show Clients They Can Count on Themselves
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