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The Codependency Treatment Guide: CBT, Somatic Strategies and More to Disentangle Clients from Dysfunctional Relationships and Recover Self

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 selfsacrificing patterns they don’t even recognize. 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 demoralized 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.

Now in this one-day seminar 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:

Move your clients’ focus from external to internal for improved therapeutic results
Help clients face the realities of their relationships so they can make real changes
Improve clients’ ability to set healthy boundaries and let go of what they cannot control
Show you clients how they can take control of their emotions and start responding instead of reacting
Foster self-empowerment from the very first session
And much more!

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.

Purchase now!

Program Information

Objectives

Learn to identify the intra/interpersonal dynamics of codependency in clients presenting with anxiety, depression, and relationship problems and understand how codependency/loss of self in others can be foundational to worry, exhaustion, resentment, entrapment, sadness, hopelessness, and health problems.
Determine the origins of codependent behaviors to support case conceptualization.
Utilize mindfulness techniques to increase codependent clients’ awareness of their own feelings.
Learn more than 15 cognitive strategies to develop and sustain self-recovery, including increased awareness of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, self-monitoring, skill building, corrections of thoughts, psychoeducation through multiple visual tools and bulleted lists, and the development of daily practices.
Use present moment awareness training to help clients tolerate frustration and respond rather than react.
Use acceptance exercises that help clients let go of what they cannot control.

Outline

Codependence: Losing Oneself in Others

Conceptualizing codependence as loss of self in someone else
Developmental sources of codependence
Codependent behaviors vs. the label
Identifying codependence – how codependent clients look in therapy
Research, risks and treatment limitations

Intake and Assessment of Clients with Codependent Behaviors

Clinical dynamics to notice as you use your standard intake
Using the Holyoake Codependency Index
Relationship patterns/themes to look for
Establishment of mutuality in treatment work
Client goal setting
Case Study: 24 year-old in a serious relationship with a dominating partner

Psychoeducation and Early Sessions:
Set the Stage to Shift Clients’ Focus from External to Internal

Tools for educating the client about external vs. internal focus
How to avoid becoming the client’s external source of direction
Strategies to encourage self-empowerment from the very first session
Addressing clinical challenges and codependence in self
Case Study: Continue with 24 year-old feeling dominated by partner

Self, Others, and the Relationship:
Family of Origin and Parts Work to Help Clients Face Illusions and See the Realities

Influences on self: Individual, family systems, and social/cultural
Parts of self that emerged from family-of-origin experiences
Visual tools to teach relationships between self and other(s)
Gathering your clients’ trauma history
Case Study: 50 year-old mother of an alcoholic adult son who chronically relapses

Somatic and Cognitive Techniques:
Enhance Codependent Clients’ Awareness of Body, Mind, Feelings and Thoughts

Mindfulness techniques to increase awareness of body, mind and feelings
Bottom-up grounding tools to notice self in the moment
Cognitive strategies to increase awareness of thoughts
Exercises to help clients be with their feelings in safe, manageable ways
Tools clients can use to intervene on their own behalf

Build Self-Competence in Codependent Clients:
Strategies to Set Healthy Boundaries, Quiet Guilt, Manage Anxiety and More

Addressing the grief of accepting the realities of self, others and situation
Respond vs. react - present moment awareness to help clients tolerate frustration
Mindful breathing techniques for anxiety management
Set healthy boundaries with “I” statements
Tools for quieting guilty thoughts
Case Study: Continue with 50 year-old mother of relapsing adult son

Increasing Self-Empowerment and Self-Attunement:
Exercises and Practices That Show Clients They Can Count on Themselves

Acceptance exercises that help clients let go of what they cannot control
Show clients how to plan with self in mind
Practice acting on goals
Developing daily practices for self-awareness and self-responsiveness
Returning to self as a secure base and an anchor in the storms and delights of life

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Addiction Counselors
Psychologists
Marriage and Family Therapists
Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 12/07/2022

CBT, DBT & EMDR Strategies to Free Clients from Codependency, Narcissistic Abuse & Attachment Trauma

You see codependency in so many clients… and yet, many therapists skip over directly treating it.

Your clients are left suffering with a lack of boundaries, obsessively people pleasing, blaming themselves endlessly, self-sabotaging and unable to make simple decisions…

To make matters worse… They’re often in toxic relationships experiencing narcissistic abuse, gaslighting and have layers of attachment trauma.

Get your codependent clients to learn new skills AND take them beyond the walls of the therapy room to radically change their lives.

Join Krystal Mazzola, LMFT whose dedicated her career to breaking codependent clients free of the shackles of painful relationships, self-hate and more. Get essential skills from CBT, DBT, EMDR, Mindfulness & Narrative Therapy to move your clients forward in life. In just three self-paced modules you’ll learn:

How to co-occurring PTSD, Anxiety, Personality & Mood Disorders
Integrate CBT, DBT, EMDR, Mindfulness & Narrative Therapy techniques
Rebuild your client’s sense of self, create compassion & self-regulate
Red flags in assessment
Overcome perfectionism, fantasy thinking & damage from narcissistic abuse
Step-by-step guidance in the four main treatment stages

All this AND printable assessments, worksheets, in-session exercises and real-world case studies!

Don’t let any clients slip through the cracks… Get expert training!

Program Information

Objectives

Investigate signs and symptoms of codependency.
Theorize how codependency presents with and impacts mental health disorders.
Appraise impact of codependency, narcissistic abuse and other behaviors on client’s mental health.
Formulate a comprehensive plan to guide clients toward interdependent, healthy relationships.
Employ skills to implement treatment targeting core boundary issues.
Apply DBT skills to clients struggling with codependency.
Utilize skills from EMDR, CBT and narrative therapy to combat codependent thoughts, behaviors, and triggers.
Build insight into how clients exhibit codependent symptoms in the therapeutic relationship.

Outline

Codependency: What you need to know

What codependency isn’t
New research: narcissistic abuse, gaslighting, lovebombing
How codependency develops in childhood & adulthood
Trauma areas specific to codependency – bullying, rejection, social disconnection, IPV, infidelity, betrayal & addiction

Assessment and Diagnosis: Core symptoms of codependency

Red flags of codependency: common client statements, ruminations & more
Combat tendency to neglect, abuse, or self-sabotage
Explore core & empowerment shame issues
Comorbidities: SUDs, anxiety, PTSD, CPTSD, Personality & Mood Disorders
Exploring your client’s loss of self

Dive into Problem Areas: Distorted Reality, Boundaries, Control & Relationships

Overcome roadblocks: resentment, people pleasing, approval seeking
Manage perfectionism, fantasy thinking & damage from gaslighting
Improve guilt, trust, catastrophizing & polarized thinking
Improve intimacy issues & heal fears of abandonment
Assessment checklist & more worksheet

Roadmap for Treatment: The 4-Core Treatment Stages
Phase one: Guide Clients’ Self-Work

Build client insight & awareness to destructive patterns
Implement narrative therapy & journal writing prompts
Nervous system balancing exercises: yoga, mindfulness, medication & more
Combat shame with self-validation
Teach clients how to practice patience

Phase Two: Integrate the 4-Boundary Part System

Replace shame with self-validation
Create internal & external boundaries in clients
Explore 7 types of essential boundaries
Help client’s authentic self shine

Phase Three: Trauma Healing

Grief work specific to relationships
Intervene in fight-flight-freeze response
Diaphragmatic breathing – instructions & benefits
Guide inner child and reparenting
Healthy parenting education
Guided scripts for self-visualization and inner child visualization

Phase Four: Relationship & Intimacy Skill Building

Step-by-step guidance in assertiveness training
Appropriate empathy and vulnerability
Teach clients to accept support
Flooding and time-outs
Build awareness of abusive behaviors
Interdependence – the solution to co-dependency

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Strategies and Codependency Recovery
Phase One

Learn self-soothing toolkit & teach mindfulness to clients
Practice radical acceptance of self & self-validation
Discover states of Mind
Learn ACCEPTS
Work with the 5 senses

Phase Two

Dialectical thinking about self, others, reality
Radical acceptance of others
Check facts to correct distortions
Practice “coping ahead”

Phase Three

Dialectical thinking
Radical acceptance of change
Meaning making - IMPROVE

Phase Four

DEAR MAN, THINK & other interventions
Broken record for boundary development

EMDR, CBT & Narrative Therapy Strategies
EMDR

Container
Butterfly hug
Safe place
Negative cognitions and validity of cognition

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Thinking mistakes
Challenge and Replace Negative Thoughts
Response prevention plan
Effective problem solving

Narrative therapy

Deconstruct the socially constructed self
Writing as therapy
Externalize inner critic

Self of the Therapist: How Your Work Supports Therapy

Prevent clients from entering a co-dependent relationship with you
Examine personal experiences and biases
Impact of pervasive codependent messages in culture
Manage perfectionism
Role model self-compassion & boundaries

Two case-studies
“Savannah” codependency with comorbidity of PTSD and BPD
“Leticia” codependency with comorbidity of anxiety

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Case Managers
Physicians
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals

Boundary Setting Strategies: How Your Clients Can Reclaim Emotional Autonomy

Attempts to set boundaries with toxic and emotionally manipulative people are often met with demeaning abuse designed to instill guilt, shame, fear, and self-doubt. Their victims are left feeling confused, selfish for having their own needs, and convinced they must make the abuser happy with them at any cost.

In this session, Dr. Lindsay Gibson, clinical psychologist and international best-selling author, will show you experiential emotional techniques your clients can use to set boundaries and free themselves from emotional tyranny.

Program Information

Objectives

Investigate defenses and emotionally coercive tactics of the narcissistic personality.
Use psychoeducation and self-concept development to help empower clients to set healthy boundaries in relationships.
Apply emotional and experiential techniques that will help clients protect themselves against emotional coercion.

Outline

Why clients seek the narcissist’s approval
Build boundary setting skills through psychoeducation and self-concept development
Strategies to decrease the impact of emotional coercion tactics

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Psychiatrists
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners
Therapists
Art Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Physicians
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals

Using the Experiential “Trauma Timeline” Intervention in Treating Trauma and Addiction

The Trauma Timeline, part of Relational Trauma Repair, Dr. Dayton’s psycho-educational model, is an experiential process for groups and one to one therapy, that helps clients to become aware of their developmental traumas and place them into the overall context of their lives. The Trauma Timeline bonds and engages groups, provides a map for psychodramatic role play that allows for clients to talk to the parts of themselves that they wish to connect with or others who were a part of their lives and impacted their development. The trauma Timeline can be done in one to one, functioning as a map from which empty chair work can be done and/or in a group moved from the “map” into a group, experiential process.

Program Information

Objectives

Investigate the use of the Trauma Timeline and how it is done on paper and how to move it into experiential work.
Defend how the Trauma Timeline can be a springboard for developmental, targeted psychodrama work.
Appraise how the Trauma Timeline can become a group process that is engaging and bonding.

Outline

How trauma creates a fragmented self
How people internalize relational trauma and how it leads to the creation of inner voices.
The key tasks of trauma treatment
Relational Trauma Repair Method
The Trauma Timeline Intervention

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Case Managers
Physicians
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals