Sometimes caring deeply for others turns into carrying more than your share.

When someone you love is struggling with addiction or destructive patterns, it’s natural to want to help. You may find yourself trying to fix, rescue, or manage their behavior, believing that if they just got better, you could finally breathe again.

Over time, though, this kind of care can start to take a toll. You might notice:

• Feeling anxious, preoccupied, or hyper-focused on the other person’s well-being

• Ignoring your own needs or boundaries to keep the peace

• Experiencing guilt, resentment, or exhaustion

• Confusing love with responsibility or control

• Struggling to trust, relax, or connect with yourself outside the relationship

Understanding codependency and relational enmeshment

Codependency is a relational pattern rooted in survival. It develops when your sense of safety or self-worth depends on the state of another person.

In therapy, we’ll gently explore:

• The current relational dynamics and family roles that shape how you show up in connection

• How to create more emotional space for yourself without guilt or fear

• Ways to recognize and regulate your own emotions, even when others around you are in chaos

• The difference between empathy and enmeshment

• What it means to stay connected without losing yourself

This work isn’t about stepping away from love; it’s about redefining what healthy love looks and feels like, starting from within.

How we’ll work together

Our sessions will provide a space to understand your emotional patterns while supporting nervous system regulation and self-trust.
This work integrates: 

• Attachment-focused and psychodynamic therapy to explore relational patterns and early dynamics

• Trauma-informed and somatic approaches to help regulate anxiety and emotional overwhelm

• Mindfulness and boundary work to strengthen self-awareness and emotional independence

Reclaiming your sense of self

This process invites reflection on your needs, desires, and values, helping you relate to others from a place of authenticity rather than fear or obligation.

Therapy offers a space to rediscover balance: where compassion and boundaries can coexist, and where love no longer requires losing yourself.

If these words resonate, I’d love to connect and explore this work together.