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Codependency & Relationship Trauma Focused Virtual Group Therapy for Women

Codependency is a term mostly used with individuals struggling with addiction. However, codependency, like addiction, is insidious and can be traced to growing up in homes where caregivers did not fully satisfy the need for attention, affection, and validation. Saying that a person is “clingy” is an oversimplification of codependency since their clinginess may be their effort to compensate for attention, affection, and validation they did not receive in childhood.

 

A codependent relationship is when one partner needs the other, who needs to be needed. It is the type of relationship with one partner who chases after the other, typically engaging in withdrawal and avoidant behaviors, despite needing attention, affection, and validation. This circular relationship is the basis of what experts refer to when they describe the “cycle” of codependency.

Most Insurances Accepted.

Codependency & Relationship Trauma Focused Virtual Group Therapy for Women

Codependency is a term mostly used with individuals struggling with addiction. However, codependency, like addiction, is insidious and can be traced to growing up in homes where caregivers did not fully satisfy the need for attention, affection, and validation. Saying that a person is “clingy” is an oversimplification of codependency since their clinginess may be their effort to compensate for attention, affection, and validation they did not receive in childhood.

 

A codependent relationship is when one partner needs the other, who needs to be needed. It is the type of relationship with one partner who chases after the other, typically engaging in withdrawal and avoidant behaviors, despite needing attention, affection, and validation. This circular relationship is the basis of what experts refer to when they describe the “cycle” of codependency.

Register Today for Virtual Session!

Most Insurances Accepted.

Codependency and Relationship Trauma

This group will take you through your childhood experience to show you how your self-esteem and self-worth were compromised due to your caregiver-infant experience. Consequently, your belief that self-sacrifice, pursuing and controlling behaviors are your way to signal to your partner that you are there for them only exacerbates your insecurity.


Codependent relationships thrive between friends, romantic partners, or family members where childhood trauma (neglect, abandonment, interparental conflict, divorce, intimate partner violence) occurred. The codependent relationship often involves emotional, physical, or sexual abuse. Sometimes the codependent is manipulated by the withdrawing/avoidant partner by gaslighting and guilting. Friends and family members know your relationship is unhealthy; however, you may be the last to recognize it. The New Hope Mental Health Counseling Services introduces this group for women because of  double standards and customs that normalize self-sacrificing behaviors.


Codependency Self-test: If you answer “Yes” to 3 of these statement this group is for you

  • You find little or no satisfaction or happiness in life outside of doing things for the other person.
  • You stay in the relationship even if you know your partner does hurtful things, i.e., lying, cheating, gaslighting, manipulating.
  • You will do anything to please and satisfy your enabler, no matter the cost to your overall well-being.
  • You feel constant anxiety about your relationship due to your desire to always make the other person happy.
  • You use all your time and energy to give your partner everything they ask for.
  • You have been praying for a long time for your partner to change, but you are the one who ends up changing instead.
  • You feel guilty about thinking of yourself in the relationship and will not express any personal needs or desires.
  • You feel guilty about thinking of yourself in the relationship and will not express any personal needs or desires.

6 Weeks Codependency & Relationship Trauma Focused Virtual Group Therapy for Women

You must change your orientation if you want to change your position.

Join our 6 Weeks Codependency and Relationship Trauma Virtual Group Therapy for Women and by listening to the shared experience of others, you build strength, hope and become each other’s role model while being genuinely supported and understood.

After completing the sessions you will receive :

Click here for the full training outline.
  • Week 1

    Defining Codependency

  • Week 2

    Codependency & Trauma

  • Week 3

    Control as a Reaction to Loss

  • Week 4

    Detachment

  • Week 5

    Reacting to Others

  • Week 6

    Freeing Yourself

Most Insurances Accepted.

6 Weeks Codependency & Relationship Trauma Focused Virtual Group Therapy for Women

You must change your orientation if you want to change your position.

Your Therapists

Clinton Clovis

Clinton Clovis, LMHC, CCTS-F, CAM-II

Clinton Clovis, LMHC, CCTS-F, CAM-II, is a licensed mental health counselor and a member of the National Anger Management Association. Clinton has worked as a Correctional Officer and Program Coordinator for Rehabilitation Services within the penal system. Clinton has received training in forensic psychology hosted by the Pan American Health Organization and the World Health Organization. In his years working in the correctional system, he participated in workshops on restorative justice conducted by The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Clinton is the President of The New Hope Mental Health Counseling Services, CEO of Promotus business consulting, and a founding board member of The Speak Hope Foundation. He is currently in the last year of his Ph.D. in psychology at Northcentral University. Clinton brings over 25 years of experience to the AMGT to help you develop the techniques and strategies to cope with and manage your anger.

Pat Beckles

Pat Beckles, Senior Office Manager & Career Coach: CWDP, CPCC, JCTC, JCDC

Pat brings over 20 years of experience as a Nationally Certified Workforce Development Professional and Certified Career Coach. She has a passion to assist her clients with finding the right career fit. She recognizes how codependency and trauma can prevent you from forging ahead to be the best you can become in this life. Over the years she has worked with individuals with long-standing codependency patterns that became barriers to asserting themselves or setting boundaries with coworkers. Change is a factor that keeps people mired in dysfunctional relationships, including work because they believe they have to take care of others. This can lead to burnout and resentment. Pat wants to help you balance your relationships so you can live your best life.
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