“I help people recover from codependency, people-pleasing, emotional over-responsibility and destructive relationship patterns through online therapy, group therapy and practical recovery resources.”
Free From Codependency: Dr Nicholas Jenner’s specialist recovery hub for codependency and relationship addiction
WHO IS IT FOR?
If you suffer from some or all of the following, you could be codependent: low self-esteem, people pleasing, poor boundary setting, caretaking, control issues, dysfunctional communication style, problems with intimacy, denial and painful emotions. Therapy can help people understand why they overcompensate, fulfill everyone’s needs but their own, or put themselves last.
WHO IS IT FOR?
If you suffer from some or all of the following, you could be codependent: low self-esteem, people pleasing, poor boundary setting, caretaking, control issues, dysfunctional communication style, problems with intimacy, denial and painful emotions. Therapy can help people understand why they overcompensate, fulfill everyone’s needs but their own, or put themselves last.
WHO IS IT FOR?
If you suffer from some or all of the following, you could be codependent: low self-esteem, people pleasing, poor boundary setting, caretaking, control issues, dysfunctional communication style, problems with intimacy, denial and painful emotions. Therapy can help people understand why they overcompensate, fulfill everyone’s needs but their own, or put themselves last.
THE THERAPY HUB
On-Demand Therapy
Join me for a 13-week audio codependency recovery program dedicated to addressing codependency issues, offering practical guidance and insights to enrich your journey towards well-being and recovery.
Group Therapy
As a codependent, it is easy to feel alone with the issues that keep you trapped in specific thinking patterns. Sometimes, it is good to share this with others in the same situation. Online group therapy can do this.
Individual Therapy
Codependency symptoms are as individual as you are and special solutions need to be found. Individual therapy is tailored made to your issues in an action based program. Free initial 60 minute consultation.
FREE RESOURCES
Self Care: An Alien Concept To Codependents But An Essential Process
For anyone with codependent tendencies, self care is not a concept
Stop People-Pleasing in Your Head: Let Art Therapy Show You What’s Really Going On
Art therapy supports codependency recovery by making people-pleasing patterns visible, reducing anxiety, and strengthening boundaries. Through creative expression, clients regulate the nervous system, process shame, and explore attachment needs safely. Art externalises inner conflict, builds a stable sense of self, and helps translate insight into healthier relationships.
The Question Most People Don’t Want to Answer
Many codependent relationships are built around being needed rather than truly known. This article explores how people gradually lose their sense of self through emotional over-focus on others, why calm relationships can feel unsettling, and how recovery begins by reconnecting with your own identity, needs, feelings and internal world.
Why Understanding Yourself Is Not Enough
Explore the Dr Nicholas Jenner Audio Programme — a deep therapeutic recovery course for codependency, narcissistic relationships, emotional exhaustion and attachment wounds. Includes lifetime access to all audio sessions, practical therapeutic insight and two free therapy or coaching sessions. Designed for lasting emotional change rather than temporary motivation.
The Question Most People Don’t Want to Answer
Many codependent relationships are built around being needed rather than truly known. This article explores how people gradually lose their sense of self through emotional
Why Understanding Yourself Is Not Enough
Explore the Dr Nicholas Jenner Audio Programme — a deep therapeutic recovery course for codependency, narcissistic relationships, emotional exhaustion and attachment wounds. Includes lifetime access
Self Care: An Alien Concept To Codependents But An Essential Process
For anyone with codependent tendencies, self care is not a concept that comes easy. Used to giving and not receiving, it can be difficult to
Stop People-Pleasing in Your Head: Let Art Therapy Show You What’s Really Going On
Art therapy supports codependency recovery by making people-pleasing patterns visible, reducing anxiety, and strengthening boundaries. Through creative expression, clients regulate the nervous system, process shame,
Codependency: The Diagnosis We Pretend Doesn’t Exist (Because It Isn’t in the DSM)
Codependency may not be a DSM diagnosis, but it’s a recognisable, treatable pattern. Learn how it gets mislabelled as anxiety, depression, or trauma—and why it’s
Anti-Codependency: How to Achieve Personal Autonomy
Anti-codependency is not about becoming self-centred. It is about returning to an adult stance in your own life. Autonomy means you can stay connected without
Dr Jenner has been writing about codependency and mental health for many years. In this time, he has built up a bank of resources that he provides free access to. Discover articles here on all aspects of codependency, narcissism, child development and relationships. This section is regularly updated and contains a link to his other mental health blog. Please follow for even more content.
The Question Most People Don’t Want to Answer
Many codependent relationships are built around being needed rather than truly known. This article explores how people gradually lose their sense of self through emotional
Why Understanding Yourself Is Not Enough
Explore the Dr Nicholas Jenner Audio Programme — a deep therapeutic recovery course for codependency, narcissistic relationships, emotional exhaustion and attachment wounds. Includes lifetime access
Self Care: An Alien Concept To Codependents But An Essential Process
For anyone with codependent tendencies, self care is not a concept that comes easy. Used to giving and not receiving, it can be difficult to
Stop People-Pleasing in Your Head: Let Art Therapy Show You What’s Really Going On
Art therapy supports codependency recovery by making people-pleasing patterns visible, reducing anxiety, and strengthening boundaries. Through creative expression, clients regulate the nervous system, process shame,
Codependency: The Diagnosis We Pretend Doesn’t Exist (Because It Isn’t in the DSM)
Codependency may not be a DSM diagnosis, but it’s a recognisable, treatable pattern. Learn how it gets mislabelled as anxiety, depression, or trauma—and why it’s
Anti-Codependency: How to Achieve Personal Autonomy
Anti-codependency is not about becoming self-centred. It is about returning to an adult stance in your own life. Autonomy means you can stay connected without
Self Care: An Alien Concept To Codependents But An Essential Process
For anyone with codependent tendencies, self care is not a concept
Stop People-Pleasing in Your Head: Let Art Therapy Show You What’s Really Going On
Art therapy supports codependency recovery by making people-pleasing patterns visible, reducing anxiety, and strengthening boundaries. Through creative expression, clients regulate the nervous system, process shame, and explore attachment needs safely. Art externalises inner conflict, builds a stable sense of self, and helps translate insight into healthier relationships.
The Question Most People Don’t Want to Answer
Many codependent relationships are built around being needed rather than truly known. This article explores how people gradually lose their sense of self through emotional over-focus on others, why calm relationships can feel unsettling, and how recovery begins by reconnecting with your own identity, needs, feelings and internal world.
Why Understanding Yourself Is Not Enough
Explore the Dr Nicholas Jenner Audio Programme — a deep therapeutic recovery course for codependency, narcissistic relationships, emotional exhaustion and attachment wounds. Includes lifetime access to all audio sessions, practical therapeutic insight and two free therapy or coaching sessions. Designed for lasting emotional change rather than temporary motivation.
Understanding Boundaries: Protecting Yourself from Narcissists
So my question is: How do you go about setting boundaries with a narcissist? My answer would be that if you are truly asking yourself this question, then “you are closing the barn door, after the horse has bolted”, so to say. Let’s put this into more perspective by giving you a little story from my past experience. About five years ago,
The Lasting Impact of Parenting: How Childhood Shapes Adult Relationships
The lessons children learn in their formative years — how to handle emotions, how to communicate needs, how safe or unsafe it feels to be themselves — are carried forward into adulthood. While some researchers debate whether personality is permanently set in early childhood, in therapy we can clearly observe that patterns of behaviour learned in childhood often resurface in adult relationships.
Healing from Codependency: Essential Therapy Techniques
The most important part of the above process is to find a therapist who has taken his or her own journey to interdependency and understands the steps needed. It is always prudent to ask a therapist about his or own co-dependent issues and how they were handled.
Group Therapy Begins Again July 27th, 2025: Plus Free Access To Dr Jenner’s Codependency Self-Help Program (worth 390 USD)
Codependency recovery is deeply personal—but it doesn’t have to be done alone. In fact, group therapy has the potential to transform the healing journey in profound ways. While individual therapy offers valuable insight, something truly powerful happens when people come together with shared experiences and open hearts.
The Psychological Roots of Relationship Addiction and Codependency
I read a lot of self-help books and they are mostly all the same. Change your thinking and change your life. Still, there is one book that I have returned to many times. It is not technically in the self-help genre, more technical, but it holds information essential to understanding how we see relationships.
Breaking Free from Codependency: Join My Free Live Q&A! Sunday 13th April 2025 12pm EST
In this live Q&A, I will be answering questions about all things codependency, relationships, and overcoming destructive habits. Whether you’re in the early stages of self-awareness or are actively pursuing healing, this session will be beneficial for you. Whether you’re struggling with a romantic relationship, family dynamics, or friendships, this is your space to ask, learn, and grow.
Dr Jenner has been writing about codependency and mental health for many years. In this time, he has built up a bank of resources that he provides free access to. Discover articles here on all aspects of codependency, narcissism, child development and relationships. This section is regularly updated and contains a link to his other mental health blog. Please follow for even more content.