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Exploring the Essential Features of “Nancy Johnston – Codependence: Treatment Strategies for Clients Who Lose Themselves in Others – PESI”
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 designed to provide guidance, insight, and straightforward strategies for clients who are:
- Over-focused on caring for, fixing, controlling, pleasing, and/or conflict-avoidingÂ
- Adult children of an addictÂ
- Spending session talking about someone elseÂ
- Having difficulty allowing their children to become independentÂ
- “Too resilient”; downplay suffering, forget how hard something wasÂ
- Struggling to leave an abusive situation or relationshipÂ
- Afraid to make necessary changes despite being unhappy Â
- Numb or unaware of what they want or feel
- And more!Â
Taught in everyday language and filled with practical tools, this is a recording you don’t want to miss!
Speaker
Nancy Johnston, LPC, LSATP, MAC, NCC
Objectives
- Apply the codependency paradigm as an underlying factor for common presenting problems, symptoms and diagnoses. Â Â
- Determine the origins of codependent behaviors to support case conceptualization and decrease pathology or stigma. Â Â
- Utilize clinical strategies to increase client’s self-understanding, self-awareness, and skills to attend to their internal well-being.  Â
Outline
Conceptualizing Codependent Dynamics in a Practical Way
- Over-functioning for others while under-functioning for the SelfÂ
- The physical and emotional costs of a “dominant external focus”Â
- Codependence as a precursor to anxiety, depression, and relationship difficultiesÂ
- Limitations of the research and potential risksÂ
Assessment: Broadening Your Lens to Include the Codependence Paradigm
- How to identify and address codependence without stigmatizingÂ
- Self-understanding (the why), self-awareness (the what), and skill sets (the how)Â
- Addressing the grief that underlies acceptance of realityÂ
- What’s missing from the Stages of ChangeÂ
Treatment Tools: Help Clients Detach from Codependence and Anchor Within the Self
- Setting goals that make senseÂ
- Shifting focus from external to internalÂ
- 3-part boundary setting skillsÂ
- Visuals to illustrate the relationship between the self and othersÂ
- Building “quiet reactivity”Â
- Breaking through the illusion of controlÂ
- Daily practices for self-awareness and self-careÂ
- And more!Â
Case Studies:
- 50 y/o mother, overly enmeshed with adult child who repeatedly relapses from alcohol recoveryÂ
- 36 y/o, depressed and insecure, unsure of role at work, feels excluded and inconsequential Â
- 17 y/o, discouraged and hesitant to share true thoughts and feelings with partner
Target Audience
- PsychologistsÂ
- Social WorkersÂ
- CounselorsÂ
- Addiction CounselorsÂ
- Marriage and Family TherapistsÂ
- Case ManagersÂ
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