Codependency Therapists in Nashville, TN
I enjoy focusing on codependency, family conflicts, gender and sexual identity.
Have you or someone you love been impacted by substance use in a negative way? Are you curious about what changes you can make to understand and address Substance Use Disorder? Are you unsure of what to do next or where to begin? I’m Trey, a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor, and I am here to help. The decision to engage in therapy is a difficult and commendable choice. I’m committed to providing a safe and validating atmosphere to honor this sacred journey. My practice is a space for individuals who are in early or ongoing recovery and those that love them.
I enjoy focusing on codependency, family conflicts, gender and sexual identity.
Have you or someone you love been impacted by substance use in a negative way? Are you curious about what changes you can make to understand and address Substance Use Disorder? Are you unsure of what to do next or where to begin? I’m Trey, a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor, and I am here to help. The decision to engage in therapy is a difficult and commendable choice. I’m committed to providing a safe and validating atmosphere to honor this sacred journey. My practice is a space for individuals who are in early or ongoing recovery and those that love them.
We all desire - and deserve - to be seen and celebrated for who we are. However, we can often get in our own way, putting heavy burdens and unrealistic expectations on ourselves and believing them to be true and necessary. We convince ourselves that our lives won’t change, that there’s something wrong with us, or that we don’t deserve better. We hide and twist ourselves to please everyone else, we get really good at pretending, or we start doing things that mask our pain, and we lose ourselves, our joy, and our connection to others in the process. I work with adults and couples in their journey towards healing.
We all desire - and deserve - to be seen and celebrated for who we are. However, we can often get in our own way, putting heavy burdens and unrealistic expectations on ourselves and believing them to be true and necessary. We convince ourselves that our lives won’t change, that there’s something wrong with us, or that we don’t deserve better. We hide and twist ourselves to please everyone else, we get really good at pretending, or we start doing things that mask our pain, and we lose ourselves, our joy, and our connection to others in the process. I work with adults and couples in their journey towards healing.
I provide support for people pleasers and perfectionists, I work with addiction and 12 Step recovery, and with those struggling with codependency and disruptive relationship patterns.
I am passionate and committed to helping my clients wake up to their true self that has always been there, but might be buried beneath layers of hurt, loss, trauma, grief, and learned patterns of behavior. Through my own journey of growth and healing, I want you to experience the same thing, discovering your sense of worth and value. My goal is to create a safe place where we can explore, seek answers, and address struggles and challenges you are facing. We will grapple with what to hold on to and what to unlearn or discard, and help you develop a relationship with yourself that feels good, grounded, and meaningful.
I provide support for people pleasers and perfectionists, I work with addiction and 12 Step recovery, and with those struggling with codependency and disruptive relationship patterns.
I am passionate and committed to helping my clients wake up to their true self that has always been there, but might be buried beneath layers of hurt, loss, trauma, grief, and learned patterns of behavior. Through my own journey of growth and healing, I want you to experience the same thing, discovering your sense of worth and value. My goal is to create a safe place where we can explore, seek answers, and address struggles and challenges you are facing. We will grapple with what to hold on to and what to unlearn or discard, and help you develop a relationship with yourself that feels good, grounded, and meaningful.
Everyone eventually comes upon a life situation that confuses or distresses them. I believe that is part of the human condition. Whether it be situational anxiety or depression, trauma, mental illness or addiction, nobody gets through life without experiencing something. These life events serve as wake up calls to help us make changes and live a more fulfilling life. It is helpful to have someone to navigate new territory with, someone who has been there themselves, to help find a better way. And that's what I am here to help you do, find a better way that leads to a more fulfilling life.
Everyone eventually comes upon a life situation that confuses or distresses them. I believe that is part of the human condition. Whether it be situational anxiety or depression, trauma, mental illness or addiction, nobody gets through life without experiencing something. These life events serve as wake up calls to help us make changes and live a more fulfilling life. It is helpful to have someone to navigate new territory with, someone who has been there themselves, to help find a better way. And that's what I am here to help you do, find a better way that leads to a more fulfilling life.
Maybe what once worked for you isn't working anymore. I get it - I spent 20 years in the music and restaurant industries before becoming a therapist, and I've done my own deep work to understand why we get stuck.
Maybe what once worked for you isn't working anymore. I get it - I spent 20 years in the music and restaurant industries before becoming a therapist, and I've done my own deep work to understand why we get stuck.
My clients often refer to what I call 'blurry trauma,' early attachment experiences that were less than affirming but so ingrained, the client often doesn't recall outstanding events. They may not even remember much about their childhood at all. That kind of trauma leads to addiction, confusing, disorganized or unfulfilling relationships, and difficulty harnessing the resources needed to navigate change so the client can create their most authentic life and relationships. I use present moment, present location resources such as the client's own strengths, passions, and ability to make creative decisions to facilitate safe change.
My clients often refer to what I call 'blurry trauma,' early attachment experiences that were less than affirming but so ingrained, the client often doesn't recall outstanding events. They may not even remember much about their childhood at all. That kind of trauma leads to addiction, confusing, disorganized or unfulfilling relationships, and difficulty harnessing the resources needed to navigate change so the client can create their most authentic life and relationships. I use present moment, present location resources such as the client's own strengths, passions, and ability to make creative decisions to facilitate safe change.
Are you are feeling disorganized? Does your life seem unmanageable? Do you feel less confident and capable than your accomplishments would suggest? If any of these resonate, I would love to help you relieve overwhelm and reduce negative self talk. We will focus on your strengths, build self esteem, and learn new coping skills that help you feel empowered.
Are you are feeling disorganized? Does your life seem unmanageable? Do you feel less confident and capable than your accomplishments would suggest? If any of these resonate, I would love to help you relieve overwhelm and reduce negative self talk. We will focus on your strengths, build self esteem, and learn new coping skills that help you feel empowered.
My clients are healing from childhood trauma, codependency, narcissistic abuse, grief and other big life changing events.
My training in CBT, DBT, EMDR, Mindfulness and Shame Resilience combine to help me help you gain skills to be stable, independent and return to thriving. If you appreciate salty language and a little humor now and then, I'm your person. Do you need flexibility? I work remotely and part time and can accommodate difficult schedules.
My clients are healing from childhood trauma, codependency, narcissistic abuse, grief and other big life changing events.
My training in CBT, DBT, EMDR, Mindfulness and Shame Resilience combine to help me help you gain skills to be stable, independent and return to thriving. If you appreciate salty language and a little humor now and then, I'm your person. Do you need flexibility? I work remotely and part time and can accommodate difficult schedules.
Kristen Bishop - Austin & Olive Counseling
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
5 Endorsed
Nashville, TN 37203
My primary therapeutic focuses are: relational conflict and/or communication issues, codependency, those who have a loved one with mental illness or addiction, children (adult or teen) of divorce, life transition, grief, and premarital therapy.
Through my own life experiences, my subsequent personal healing journey and an education in sociology and counseling, I am grateful that I get to call what I do "work." As a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, I primarily look at issues through a relational scope and find family-of-origin work to be extremely relevant with all of my clients.
My primary therapeutic focuses are: relational conflict and/or communication issues, codependency, those who have a loved one with mental illness or addiction, children (adult or teen) of divorce, life transition, grief, and premarital therapy.
Through my own life experiences, my subsequent personal healing journey and an education in sociology and counseling, I am grateful that I get to call what I do "work." As a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, I primarily look at issues through a relational scope and find family-of-origin work to be extremely relevant with all of my clients.
Do you feel like you are stuck in the same patterns and can't move forward? I believe everyone has a story to explore, to heal, to grieve, and to grow. I want to provide the support and resources you need to live a healthy, full life.
Do you feel like you are stuck in the same patterns and can't move forward? I believe everyone has a story to explore, to heal, to grieve, and to grow. I want to provide the support and resources you need to live a healthy, full life.
I work with individuals, couples, and families navigating codependency, trauma, relational conflict, and identity exploration.
My integrated approach to therapy helps clients find their intrinsic strengths to tackle their current struggles. This framework includes evidence-based strategies from the following models: Internal Family Systems (IFS), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and Restoration therapies.
I work with individuals, couples, and families navigating codependency, trauma, relational conflict, and identity exploration.
My integrated approach to therapy helps clients find their intrinsic strengths to tackle their current struggles. This framework includes evidence-based strategies from the following models: Internal Family Systems (IFS), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and Restoration therapies.
Honest self-reflection is the answer to so many of our problems. At many points throughout our lives, we learn to ease life’s burdens by shutting down, acting out, or running away in attempts to find relief. Even our most destructive coping strategies were often the best answers we could find at the time to manage our anxieties, our desires, and our pain. When we allow ourselves the opportunity to slow down and reflect on our lives, both past and present, we deepen our understanding and insight. And, as we explore our lives without moralizing and harshness, we develop genuine compassion and greater trust in ourselves.
Honest self-reflection is the answer to so many of our problems. At many points throughout our lives, we learn to ease life’s burdens by shutting down, acting out, or running away in attempts to find relief. Even our most destructive coping strategies were often the best answers we could find at the time to manage our anxieties, our desires, and our pain. When we allow ourselves the opportunity to slow down and reflect on our lives, both past and present, we deepen our understanding and insight. And, as we explore our lives without moralizing and harshness, we develop genuine compassion and greater trust in ourselves.
You may be reaching a point where old roles no longer fit: scapegoat, caretaker, emotional stabilizer, or “the strong one.”
What follows can feel disorienting, including grief, anger, relief, and a growing refusal to contort yourself for systems that relied on your silence.
I work with adults who are ready to step out of survival roles and into sovereignty—people who want to understand how they adapted, not stay stuck retelling what hurt. Many of my clients are navigating estrangement, enmeshed family systems, complex trauma, identity shifts, or the consequences of choosing themselves for the first time.
You may be reaching a point where old roles no longer fit: scapegoat, caretaker, emotional stabilizer, or “the strong one.”
What follows can feel disorienting, including grief, anger, relief, and a growing refusal to contort yourself for systems that relied on your silence.
I work with adults who are ready to step out of survival roles and into sovereignty—people who want to understand how they adapted, not stay stuck retelling what hurt. Many of my clients are navigating estrangement, enmeshed family systems, complex trauma, identity shifts, or the consequences of choosing themselves for the first time.
It can feel exhausting trying to balance connecting to yourself and the rest of the world when life is already constantly changing! Do you ever feel like there’s never a right time to share or feel your emotions? Or relationships have gotten more complex and lonelier? I was originally drawn to pursue therapy when recognizing the societal paradox of being different and alike as well as connected and lonely through sociology. I believe therapy is a powerful tool in understanding and navigating this experience and yourself.
It can feel exhausting trying to balance connecting to yourself and the rest of the world when life is already constantly changing! Do you ever feel like there’s never a right time to share or feel your emotions? Or relationships have gotten more complex and lonelier? I was originally drawn to pursue therapy when recognizing the societal paradox of being different and alike as well as connected and lonely through sociology. I believe therapy is a powerful tool in understanding and navigating this experience and yourself.
Welcome to a new style of psychotherapy. Instead of diagnosing you with a "disease" or "disorder" and treating you like a patient, I'm work with you to help you to do three things: (1) understand what happened in your past that led you to the habits and realities you now face that are causing you pain, (2) help you develop the compassion you need in order to (3) develop an unconditional and irrevocable self-love. That's how we heal. We learn to love ourselves unconditionally.
Welcome to a new style of psychotherapy. Instead of diagnosing you with a "disease" or "disorder" and treating you like a patient, I'm work with you to help you to do three things: (1) understand what happened in your past that led you to the habits and realities you now face that are causing you pain, (2) help you develop the compassion you need in order to (3) develop an unconditional and irrevocable self-love. That's how we heal. We learn to love ourselves unconditionally.
LPC in Tennessee & Texas offering virtual therapy.
We all have stories that shape our identities and perspectives. Painful experiences can trap us in harmful narratives that affect our lives and relationships. If you’re seeking healing, growth, or to break negative cycles, I would love to work with you. With experience in various clinical settings, I tailor my therapeutic approach to meet your unique needs. I work with adults in individual and couples sessions, focusing on healing and changing maladaptive patterns that are coming from a wounded place that aren't serving you anymore.
LPC in Tennessee & Texas offering virtual therapy.
We all have stories that shape our identities and perspectives. Painful experiences can trap us in harmful narratives that affect our lives and relationships. If you’re seeking healing, growth, or to break negative cycles, I would love to work with you. With experience in various clinical settings, I tailor my therapeutic approach to meet your unique needs. I work with adults in individual and couples sessions, focusing on healing and changing maladaptive patterns that are coming from a wounded place that aren't serving you anymore.
Jessi Fortmann
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, AMFT, L3 IFS, ERYT500
3 Endorsed
Nashville, TN 37215
You were born whole and good.
My own healing journey led me to Internal Family Systems (IFS), giving me a way to know and love all the parts of myself. I wasn’t just unburdening the parts of me who were desperately coping, I was bringing in calm, connectedness, compassion, and choice I never realized was available to me.
You were born whole and good.
My own healing journey led me to Internal Family Systems (IFS), giving me a way to know and love all the parts of myself. I wasn’t just unburdening the parts of me who were desperately coping, I was bringing in calm, connectedness, compassion, and choice I never realized was available to me.
I see individual adults and couples—often mission-driven professionals, social entrepreneurs, spiritual leaders, music industry professionals, healers, and creatives—navigating layers of shame, perfectionism, and codependency.
Welcome, I’m so glad you are considering reaching out for support. These are hard times, and learning to befriend, rather than avoid or deny, the vulnerability and complexity of being human is a revolutionary act. Effectively meeting this moment requires skillful and consistent access to our inner knowing and resilience. That’s where I come in: I help change-makers, cycle-breakers and creatives navigate the lingering imprints of trauma, both personal and cultural, on their relationships and sense of self so that you can move beyond the trance of unworthiness and welcome more of who you are with compassion and curiosity.
I see individual adults and couples—often mission-driven professionals, social entrepreneurs, spiritual leaders, music industry professionals, healers, and creatives—navigating layers of shame, perfectionism, and codependency.
Welcome, I’m so glad you are considering reaching out for support. These are hard times, and learning to befriend, rather than avoid or deny, the vulnerability and complexity of being human is a revolutionary act. Effectively meeting this moment requires skillful and consistent access to our inner knowing and resilience. That’s where I come in: I help change-makers, cycle-breakers and creatives navigate the lingering imprints of trauma, both personal and cultural, on their relationships and sense of self so that you can move beyond the trance of unworthiness and welcome more of who you are with compassion and curiosity.
Healing is possible. You know this because here you are, courageously looking for a therapist to walk beside you, guide you and give you a little push when you need it.
I believe my greatest strength is giving clients the sense of being truly seen and heard. I provide a safe, judgement-free space to explore your past, learn new skills, and create real change. My goal is to make you comfortable while gently inching you out of your comfort zone.
Whether you're facing addiction, grief, trauma, anxiety, or relationship issues, together, we will find the best techniques to support you and nurture your growth.
Healing is possible. You know this because here you are, courageously looking for a therapist to walk beside you, guide you and give you a little push when you need it.
I believe my greatest strength is giving clients the sense of being truly seen and heard. I provide a safe, judgement-free space to explore your past, learn new skills, and create real change. My goal is to make you comfortable while gently inching you out of your comfort zone.
Whether you're facing addiction, grief, trauma, anxiety, or relationship issues, together, we will find the best techniques to support you and nurture your growth.
I specialize in complex trauma and attachment wounds—early experiences of neglect, shame, or emotional harm that can show up in adulthood as codependency, perfectionism, anxiety, addictions, or a sense of disconnection from your true self.
I use attachment-focused (SAFE) EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS/parts work), and somatic techniques to support deep, integrative healing. I work at your pace, honoring the strength that brought you here while helping you release what no longer serves you. For creatives, I also integrate expressive work as a pathway to healing.
I specialize in complex trauma and attachment wounds—early experiences of neglect, shame, or emotional harm that can show up in adulthood as codependency, perfectionism, anxiety, addictions, or a sense of disconnection from your true self.
I use attachment-focused (SAFE) EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS/parts work), and somatic techniques to support deep, integrative healing. I work at your pace, honoring the strength that brought you here while helping you release what no longer serves you. For creatives, I also integrate expressive work as a pathway to healing.
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Codependency Therapists
What therapy types help with codependency problems?
Both couples and family therapy and cognitive and behavioral therapy (CBT) can help with the relationship difficulties referred to as codependency. Such problems typically include inappropriate feelings of responsibility for a loved one’s destructive behavior, irrational patterns of thinking about such behavior, and family interaction patterns in which the needs of one troubled member override the needs of others in a household.
What happens in therapy for codependency?
Spouses and family members learn and practice how to interact and support each other in a healthy way without sacrificing their own needs or well-being. They learn the limits of their responsibility for their loved ones and correct faulty patterns of thinking and feeling that underlie codependent behavior. Individuals may be encouraged to nurture an array of social relationships and to cultivate their own talents and interests so that they develop a healthy sense of self outside the family.
How does therapy help a person or couple overcome codependency?
Therapy helps people establish healthy ways of being in a relationship. Spouses and family members learn how to nurture and support one another without sacrificing their own needs or allowing the needs of one person to dominate the dynamic. Individuals learn how to say no and set boundaries, and how to maintain their own identity and self-esteem. Therapy helps people understand that they are not responsible for the feelings and actions of others. It also helps individuals deal with the turbulence that can come from living with a person suffering from such conditions as substance abuse and mental illness.
What is the goal of therapy for codependency?
One goal of therapy for codependency is to alleviate feelings of responsibility for and correct irrational patterns of thinking about loved ones whose behavioral problems override the needs of others in a household. Therapy helps people establish healthy boundaries of behavior and speak up for their own needs in a relationship. In addition, people learn how to maintain a healthy relationship, one in which both parties give and receive equally and are able to retain their own identity.