At Living at Reflections, we treat codependency as an attachment-based and trauma-informed condition that can be fully healed with the right clinical support. Our luxury, boutique residential environment allows clients to step out of overwhelming relational dynamics and into a therapeutic space where their healing, identity, and emotional wellbeing can finally take center stage.Codependency is often misunderstood. It is not simply “caring too much” — it is an emotional survival pattern rooted in early experiences, trauma, or chronic relational stress. For many adults, especially high-achievers, caretakers, and individuals in helping professions, codependency becomes a deeply ingrained way of relating to others that eventually leads to burnout, resentment, self-abandonment, anxiety, and emotional depletion.

🌿 What Is Codependency?

Codependency occurs when a person’s emotional identity or stability becomes overly tied to another person’s needs, moods, or approval. It often develops in households where:

• Emotional needs were ignored or minimized 
• You had to play the caretaker role early 
• Boundary-setting was punished or unsafe 
• Chaos, addiction, or mental illness were present 
• You learned to earn love through helpfulness or perfection 

Codependency is not a personality flaw — it is a learned survival strategy.

At Reflections, we help clients understand the roots of these patterns and build healthier, more empowering ways of relating.

⚠️ Signs of Codependency

Common symptoms include:

In Relationships

• Difficulty setting boundaries 
• Fear of conflict, rejection, or abandonment 
• Feeling responsible for other people’s emotions 
• Over-functioning in relationships 
• Attraction to emotionally unavailable partners 
• Staying in unhealthy or one-sided dynamics 
• Feeling guilty when prioritizing your own needs 

Emotionally

• Chronic anxiety 
• Feeling “not enough” unless helping others 
• Low self-esteem 
• Difficulty identifying personal needs 
• Emotional numbness or overload 
• Shame or self-criticism 

Behaviorally

• People-pleasing 
• Difficulty saying no 
• Seeking validation through service or caretaking 
• Avoiding independence 
• Losing identity inside relationships 

Clients at Reflections often describe feeling exhausted, overextended, or taken advantage of, despite being perceived as strong, capable, and emotionally grounded by others.

💛 Who Benefits from Codependency Treatment?

Our program is ideal for individuals who:

• Consistently choose partners who drain or destabilize them 
• Have lost themselves in caregiving roles 
• Struggle to maintain boundaries 
• Feel responsible for “fixing” others 
• Are recovering from relationships with narcissistic or addicted partners 
• Experience guilt when prioritizing themselves 
• Feel stuck in cycles of emotional rescue or abandonment 
• Have developed anxiety or depression due to relational stress 

We help clients separate their identity from caretaking and rebuild a strong sense of self.

🔬 Our Trauma-Informed Approach to Codependency Treatment

Codependency is deeply tied to childhood emotional environments, attachment patterns, and trauma. Our clinicians use a multi-layered therapeutic approach that addresses these core components.

🩺 1. Comprehensive Clinical & Emotional Assessment

Upon arrival, clients receive evaluations that explore:

• Attachment style 
• Trauma history 
• Relationship patterns 
• Emotional regulation capacity 
• Self-esteem and identity 
• Boundary patterns 
• Co-occurring mental health conditions 
• Stress and nervous-system responses 

This provides a powerful roadmap for healing.

🧠 2. Attachment-Based Therapy

Most codependent patterns originate in early attachment experiences.

We help clients:

• Understand their attachment style 
• Heal abandonment wounds 
• Develop secure attachment patterns 
• Build self-trust & emotional independence 
• Recognize unhealthy relational cycles 

Clients learn to form healthy, grounded relationships without losing themselves.

🌩 3. Trauma-Informed Therapy

Codependency often coexists with:

• Emotional neglect 
• Trauma bonding 
• Childhood inconsistency 
• Parentification (becoming the caretaker as a child) 
• Emotional abuse 
• Loss or abandonment 
• Complex PTSD 

Therapies include:

• EMDR 
• Trauma-focused CBT 
• Somatic trauma processing 
• Inner child work 
• Narrative & relational healing 

We work from a place of compassion, not blame.

🧘‍♀️ 4. Somatic & Nervous System Work

Because codependency keeps the nervous system in a chronic state of hypervigilance or people-pleasing, body-based therapies help restore internal safety:

• Somatic experiencing 
• Yoga & mindful movement 
• Breathwork & grounding 
• Meditation 
• Massage therapy 
• Acupuncture 
• Cold plunge & sauna options 

Calming the body is essential for emotional and relational healing.

💬 5. Identity, Self-Worth & Boundary Development

Clients often struggle with internal questions like:

• “Who am I outside of helping others?” 
• “What do I want?” 
• “How do I say no without guilt?” 
• “What does a healthy boundary look like?” 

We guide clients through:

• Boundary-setting skill building 
• Values discovery 
• Self-trust exercises 
• Differentiating self from relationships 
• Developing internal safety 
• Reclaiming identity outside of caretaking roles 

💊 6. Psychiatric Care (When Needed)

Some clients experience co-occurring:

• Anxiety 
• Depression 
• PTSD 
• Bipolar spectrum symptoms 
• OCD tendencies 
• Sleep issues 
• Burnout 

Our psychiatric team provides medication support when clinically appropriate — always personalized and optional.

🧩 7. Dual Diagnosis Treatment

For clients with co-occurring mental health or substance use issues, we provide integrated treatment for:

• Addictive coping patterns 
• Emotional dysregulation 
• Trauma 
• Anxiety & depression 
• Performance pressure 

This holistic approach creates long-term stability.

🌿 8. Holistic Healing & Lifestyle Integration

We incorporate:

• Nutrition support 
• Daily movement 
• Nature therapy 
• Guided meditations 
• Personal wellness plans 
• Skills for sustainable emotional practices 

Clients leave with skills that strengthen independence, balance, and wellbeing.

💼 9. Support for Executives & High-Achieving Professionals

Codependency is extremely common among high-performing adults who:

• Over-function in relationships 
• Feel pressure to hold everything together 
• Have difficulty accepting help 
• Feel responsible for everyone else’s success 
• Experience burnout from caretaking roles 

Our executive-friendly program includes:

• Private rooms 
• Controlled device access (as clinically appropriate) 
• Quiet workspaces 
• High confidentiality 
• A calm environment ideal for deep emotional reset 

🔁 10. Aftercare & Long-Term Support

Before discharge, clients receive:

• Continued therapy recommendations 
• Resources for DBT/attachment-focused outpatient care 
• Relapse-prevention for relationship patterns 
• Tools for boundary maintenance 
• Guidance for re-entry into relationships 
• Couples or family therapy options 
• Optional coaching and alumni support 

We ensure clients feel supported long after leaving our care.

🌴 Why Clients Choose Living at Reflections for Codependency Treatment

• Boutique-size, highly personalized program 
• Luxury, private environment ideal for emotional healing 
• Highly trained trauma & attachment specialists 
• Executive-friendly accommodations 
• Whole-person mind-body healing 
• Deep emotional processing + nervous-system recalibration 
• Nonjudgmental, compassionate care 
• High anonymity & confidentiality 

Clients rediscover their identity, rebuild emotional strength, and learn how to form healthy, balanced, fulfilling relationships.