Codependency Treatment Certificate Course: Clinical Tools for Boundaries, Self-Reliance, Trauma Healing, and Balanced Relationships

Establish Yourself as a Codependency Specialist
with this All-New Certificate Course

Introducing our intensive online certificate program specifically designed to provide you with the skills and strategies you need to free clients from the destructive cycle of codependency…

…and set yourself apart as a trusted treatment specialist.

You’ll join expert therapists, in-demand trainers and best-selling authors Nancy Johnston and Krystal Mazzola Wood.

They’ll share all they’ve learned over decades of working with this complex and often overlooked relational dynamic with detailed video instruction full of instantly useable cognitive strategies, somatic techniques, and interventions from DBT and EMDR…

…so you can go deep into the core beliefs and childhood wounds that fuel codependent behaviors, implement effective interventions, and support clients in reclaiming their sense of self-worth and autonomy.

Whether you work with individuals or couples, this course is your blueprint to end the destructive behavioral patterns of enabling, blurred boundaries, self-blame, and self-neglect hurting so many of your clients.

So don’t wait to get the skills you need to help clients reclaim themselves and forge the healthier authentic connections they’ve been longing for their whole lives.

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P.S. You’ll also get 3 FREE BONUSES including worksheets and a CE training featuring Amazon #1 Best Selling author Dr. Lindsay Gibson.

Codependency Treatment Certificate Course: Clinical Tools for Boundaries, Self-Reliance, Trauma Healing, and Balanced Relationships

$639.96 Value
Just $299.99 Today — Phenomenal Savings!

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Earn up to 15.0 CE Hours included FREE with your registration.
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Codependency Treatment Course Curriculum

Elevate your expertise with our Certificate Course in Codependency Treatment. This comprehensive program equips therapists with the essential tools, strategies, and insights to effectively guide clients towards freedom from codependency and reclaiming their authentic selves. With expert instruction from seasoned practitioners, you'll gain the knowledge and skills needed to distinguish yourself as a trusted expert in codependency treatment and empower clients on their journey to healing and self-discovery.

PART 1 – The Codependency Treatment Guide: Disentangle Clients from Dysfunctional Relationships and Recover Self

Join Nancy Johnston, expert therapist and author of The Clinician’s Codependency Treatment Workbook, for a step-by-step training on how to use powerful strategies to disentangle clients from dysfunctional relationships and facilitate their journey towards self-recovery. This segment of the course will provide you with techniques to identify and address codependent patterns, empower clients to establish healthy boundaries, regain autonomy, and foster genuine connections. With expert guidance and practical insights, you’ll emerge equipped to guide clients towards liberation from codependency and reclaiming their true selves.

Codependence: Losing Oneself in Others

Sources of codependence
Codependent behaviors vs. the label
Identifying codependence

Intake and Assessment of Clients with Codependent Behaviors

Clinical dynamics to notice
Holyoake Codependency Index
Relationship patterns/themes to look for
Client goal setting

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

Family of Origin and Parts Work to Help Clients Face Illusions and See the Realities

Parts of self and family-of-origin
Visual tools to teach relationships
Gathering your clients’ trauma history

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

Mindfulness techniques
Bottom-up grounding tools
Cognitive strategies
Exercises to help clients be with their feelings

Strategies to Set Healthy Boundaries, Quiet Guilt, Manage Anxiety and More

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

Acceptance Exercises
Practice acting on goals for self-awareness
Returning to self as a secure base

PART 2 – CBT, DBT & EMDR Strategies to Free Clients from Codependency, Narcissistic Abuse & Attachment Trauma

Join Krystal Mazzola Wood, therapist and author of The Codependency Recovery Plan: A 5-Step Guide to Understand, Accept, and Break Free from the Codependent Cycle, for a deep dive into skills and techniques from CBT, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to unravel complex relational dynamics and guide clients towards healing. No prior experience with these modalities is needed to benefit! Gain invaluable insights and practical in-session tools to empower clients to break free from destructive patterns, reclaim their autonomy, and cultivate healthy, fulfilling relationships.

Assessment and Diagnosis: Core Symptoms of Codependency

Distorted Reality, Boundaries, Control & Relationships

Roadmap for Treatment

Implement narrative therapy & journal writing
Yoga, mindfulness & more
Combat shame with self-validation
Grief work specific to relationships
Guide inner child and reparenting
Relationship & Intimacy Skill Building

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Strategies and Codependency Recovery

Radical acceptance of self & self-validation
Check facts to correct distortions
DEAR MAN, THINK & other interventions

EMDR

Container
Butterfly hug and safe place
Negative cognitions and validity of cognition

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

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

Preventing a co-dependent relationship with you
Examine personal experiences and biases
Self-compassion & boundaries

Codependency Treatment Certificate Course:
Clinical Tools for Boundaries, Self-Reliance, Trauma Healing, and Balanced Relationships

$639.96 Value
Just $299.99 Today — Phenomenal Savings!

Earn up to 15.0 CE Hours included FREE with your registration.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline

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2 BONUS trainings PLUS a dozen worksheets, scripts and case studies
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Boundary Setting Strategies: How Your Clients Can Reclaim Emotional Autonomy

Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD | Click here for information about Lindsay C. Gibson

Join the Amazon #1 Best Selling Author of Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting or Self-Involved Parents in this video training and learn experiential emotional techniques your clients can use to set boundaries and free themselves from emotional tyranny.

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

Tian Dayton, PhD | Click here for information about Tian Dayton

Join Tian Dayton, PhD, Senior Fellow at The Meadows and a nationally renowned speaker, expert, and consultant in trauma, addiction, and psychodrama. In this session Dr. Dayton will share 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.

FREE PRINTABLE Worksheets, Case Studies, and Scripts

Nancy L. Johnston, MS, LPC, LSATP, MAC, NCC | Click here for information about Nancy Johnston

Get 12 FREE PRINTABLE worksheets, case studies, and scripts from Nancy Johnston’s newest book The Clinician’s Codependency Treatment Workbook.

These resources are a value add to anyone working with codependency so you can help clients individuate from enmeshed families of origin, build healthy boundaries, and end people pleasing.

Meet Your Expert Codependency Treatment Instructors

Nancy L. Johnston, MS, LPC, LSATP, MAC, NCC, is a licensed professional counselor and licensed substance abuse treatment practitioner with 46 years of clinical experience. She is a master addiction counselor and an American Mental Health Counselors Association (AMHCA) diplomate in substance abuse and co-occurring disorders. She is the author of three books, The Clinician’s Codependency Treatment Workbook; Disentangle: When You’ve Lost Your Self in Someone Else and My Life as a Border Collie: Freedom from Codependency. Nancy is a sought-after speaker and trainer, and a facilitator of Codependence Camp, a biannual retreat for people in codependence recovery.

Click here for information about Nancy Johnston

Krystal Mazzola Wood, LMFT, is a licensed marriage and family therapist, author, and codependency expert. Krystal gained her expertise in codependency by working at The Meadows, a world-renowned treatment center. Here, Krystal trained under pioneering codependency expert Pia Mellody. Throughout this time, Krystal has been fascinated by the systems in which people suffer – and recover – from the beginning of her career. This systemic focus led her to create her five-step codependency recovery system, which is featured in her book, The Codependency Recovery Plan: A 5-Step Guide to Understand, Accept, and Break Free from the Codependent Cycle. To support readers further, she then wrote The Codependency Workbook: Simple Practices for Developing and Maintaining Your Independence.

Click here for information about Krystal Mazzola Wood

Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD, is the Amazon #1 Best Selling Author of Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting or Self-Involved Parents (New Harbinger, 2015.) It has sold over 100,000 copies, been translated into 14 languages, and has helped thousands of people reverse their toxic psychological legacy and reclaim their lives. Dr. Gibson’s unique contribution to the field was to recognize that the anxiety, obsessions, and depression of her clients were often rooted in distorted beliefs and emotional coercions induced by emotionally immature parents.

Click here for information about Lindsay C. Gibson

Tian Dayton, PhD, is a Senior Fellow at The Meadows and a nationally renowned speaker, expert, and consultant in trauma, addiction, and psychodrama. Her work has been praised by many of today’s leading voices in psychotherapy including Peter Levine and Stephen Porges. Dr. Dayton is the director of The New York Psychodrama Training Institute and author of 15 books including the soon to be released Treating Adult Children of Relational Trauma (PESI Publishing, 2023).

Click here for information about Tian Dayton

Codependency Treatment Certificate Course: Clinical Tools for Boundaries, Self-Reliance, Trauma Healing, and Balanced Relationships

$639.96 Value
Just $299.99 Today — Phenomenal Savings!

REGISTER NOW

Earn up to 15.0 CE Hours included FREE with your registration.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline

Frequently Asked Questions

No. While codependency often intersects with addiction, it is a multifaceted issue that encompasses dysfunctional relational patterns, boundary issues, and self-neglect, impacting individuals across various contexts. By addressing codependency directly, therapists can provide targeted support to clients struggling with complex relationship dynamics, regardless of substance use.

Absolutely. Preoccupied with others, people with co-dependence issues desperately try to please, manage, or fix others. After years of putting their own needs aside these clients become stuck in externally focused self-sacrificing 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. Addressing codependency can be highly beneficial in fostering healthier relationships and promoting personal growth and empowerment in your clients – whether you work with individual clients or couples.

With codependency becoming increasingly recognized and discussed, more clients are seeking therapy to address codependent relational patterns. Other clients may not explicitly seek codependency treatment, but present with issues that are indicative of codependent dynamics in their relationships. By honing their expertise in this area, therapists can provide comprehensive care that enables them to better serve a broader range of clients grappling with relational challenges.

No. A certificate is a document issued upon the completion of a training program. It signifies that you have trained on specific skills, have trained with a particular individual, or have acquired knowledge in a particular subject.

Certification on the other hand often requires you to meet specific standards, pass rigorous exams, and many even include additional practice, consultation, supervision, evaluations, and ongoing continuing education requirements. While you will need to pass an exam, this course does not include many of these elements – making this a “certificate” program.

So while there are a lot of “certifications” out there – including some that are not endorsed by an actual certifying body or even taught by a licensed trainer – you need to be the judge of what adds value to your work and your ability to help your clients.

This certificate does distinguish you as a professional who has trained more extensively in this area with experts…and it’s an acknowledgment that can set you apart in the eyes of clients and peers.

Yes! This course offers up to 15 hours of self-study CE hours for a number of professionals.

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