In-person Sessions
Meet in a calm, private space to understand the roots of your codependent patterns, release control, and find healthier, more intimate connections.
Virtual Sessions
Get support from home while you explore codependent patterns, identify your needs, build healthier boundaries, and feel more secure and connected in your relationships.
Codependency therapy focuses on understanding the relational patterns that may lead you to prioritize others’ needs, emotions, or approval at the expense of your own. Perhaps you find yourself saying “yes” when you really mean “no.” Often rooted in early relationships and life experiences, these patterns can shape how you show up in intimacy with others, making it difficult to set boundaries, trust, and assert your own needs. Often, codependent patterns serve as protective measures, ensuring you receive and maintain love and connection with others.
In sessions, you and your therapist will explore your historical and current relational patterns, your relationship with control, and how codependency and the role of the accommodator both protect and hurt you. Your therapist will help you make contact with your suppressed feelings and needs, and help you identify and learn how to express boundaries directly. In doing this work, clients develop a stronger sense of self, increased self-esteem, personal insight, healthy communication skills, and a greater capacity for intimacy with others.
Codependency therapy will help you process attachment trauma and give you a deeper understanding of yourself and how you relate to others. As you begin to recognize and shift patterns of over-responsibility, people-pleasing, and emotional caretaking, many people experience a more stable sense of self within relationships. You will find it easier to identify your own needs, tolerate discomfort without immediately accommodating others, and make choices that feel more aligned with what you want and who you are.
Over time, these changes often lead to more balanced, loving, and fulfilling relationships. Rather than feeling responsible for others’ emotions or losing yourself in connection, you can begin to engage from a place of mutuality and authenticity. Many people notice a reduction in anxiety, resentment, and emotional exhaustion, along with an increased capacity for boundaries, clarity, and genuine closeness and connection.
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Codependency does not mean you lack independence. Codependency usually involves prioritizing other people's needs above your own, avoiding conflict, struggling to set and maintain boundaries, and feeling responsible for other people's feelings. Beneath codependency often lies a fear of abandonment.
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Yes. Often, couples enter therapy to explore patterns of codependency. Your therapist will create a safe space for both partners to identify and express feelings and unmet needs, work toward healthy differentiation, and show up to the relationship more authentically and with less anxiety.
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Like all first sessions, your therapist will focus on creating a strong therapeutic alliance with you, helping you identify your goals, and understanding your current life situation. Your therapist may start asking you questions about your history as this often informs current attachment and relational patterns.
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Codependency therapy can help you develop a stronger sense of self, identify and express your needs, set boundaries, and explore how control, unmet needs and earlier attachment relationships contribute to current relational patterns.
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Yes. We offer secure virtual sessions, which can be helpful if you are traveling in California, or prefer to meet from home. Online therapy can still provide meaningful support and connection.
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In almost all situations, what you share is confidential and not shared without your written permission. Your therapist will explain the few legal and ethical exceptions related to safety so you understand how privacy is protected.
You do not have to stay stuck in patterns that leave you feeling drained or disconnected. Codependency therapy can help you set boundaries, strengthen your sense of self, and create more fulfilling relationships.
