“Intimacy is what we most long for and what we most fear.”
Our founder, Brooke Sprowl has 20 years of experience with codependency, relationships, and the patterns underneath them. Her signature approach, Nervous System-Based Therapy, works at an unconscious level to shift the patterns running the show beneath the surface.
If you're nodding, that's exactly where we begin.
A bad relationship can feel like a soul-sucking prison, or a chaotic addiction with euphoric highs and painful lows. And when we move from one failed relationship to the next, we may begin to question if something is wrong with us.
Usually, nothing is wrong with you. There are subconscious “walls” getting in the way of a healthy relationship, and as we bring awareness to those walls and begin to heal them, you start to approach yourself and your relationships in a whole new way. A few of the most common signs:
Our research-based therapy interventions are proven effective for codependency and the issues around it, including:
We all have some codependent traits, but when they begin to overtake your relationships, it’s time to seek help. If one person is codependent, the relationship can start to feel very one-sided. If any of these apply to you, it might be time to speak with a therapist:
Every therapist on our team is rigorously vetted and trained by our founder, Brooke Sprowl, LCSW, with 20 years of clinical experience. So when you come to us for codependency, we get to know your unique needs, personality and preferences then match you with the right specialist for you.
You did more in 45 minutes than my last therapist did in a year!
From the beginning of our session, Brooke knew exactly what tools and questions would work for my particular psychology. No other therapist has been able to do that.
I felt very seen, understood, and supported. Brooke went right to the source of the issue while staying so gentle and kind.
Brooke has the true gift of insight and compassion, getting straight to the heart of your blind spots in a way that’s truly changed my life.
Therapy helped me untangle so much confusion and bring peace to where I once felt fear. I feel free and alive for the first time in a long time.
My vivid imagination wants to create terrifying monsters under the bed. In a lot of cases those monsters are nothing more than a heap of laundry that just needs to be aired out.
Exploring codependency and unhealthy relationships in therapy helps us trace and understand the origins of our painful patterns and bring them under our conscious control, so we can experience true intimacy, love, and acceptance with the right people. Therapy can help you:
Personally vetted and trained by our founder, our team has special training in Nervous System-Based Therapy, offering real-time feedback on the unconscious patterns and defense mechanisms that keep codependency in place.
The original framework our founder developed over twenty years in practice, and the backbone of how we treat codependency: working with the nervous system that learned to keep the peace, not just the thoughts it produces.
Real-time nervous system regulation and autonomic tracking let us catch the urge to please, appease, or shut down as it rises in the room, and help your system settle in real time.
People-pleasing and over-giving are often defenses that once kept us safe, but they keep us stuck in one-sided relationships. We identify and compassionately interrupt these defense mechanisms to break the cycle.
Codependency lives in thoughts, in the body, and in relationship patterns. We work somatically, experientially, cognitively, and with parts, understanding that each pathway requires different interventions.
Our therapist matching specialist knows every therapist on our roster personally and can match you with the best fit for your unique needs, personality, and preferences.
Our team of codependency and relationship experts helps you identify and change the underlying thought and behavioral patterns that contribute to codependency. Every approach below is research-based, and your therapist draws on the ones that fit you.
Our warm and experienced LA codependency specialists offer in-person therapy at 7 office locations across the city, plus online therapy anywhere in California, or a mix of both.
*Available within a certain radius — get matched to find out more.
At My LA Therapy, we specialize in helping people interrupt unhealthy patterns by understanding the underlying and unconscious forces beneath them. As we bring these forces into the light of awareness, you can decrease anxiety and experience greater confidence, resilience, and self-sufficiency.
Our codependency and relationship experts help you identify and change the underlying thought and behavioral patterns that contribute to codependence, giving you strategies to self-regulate and decrease your distress while restoring an overall sense of peace.
To experience true and lasting joy, we must face our pain by healing underlying trauma and confronting our fears. Our research-based interventions are proven effective for relationships and the issues surrounding codependency, such as anxiety, communication, unconscious trauma, and self-limiting core beliefs.
Learn scientifically proven CBT techniques to overcome anxiety, depression, and irrational thoughts so you can see yourself in more realistic and empowering ways.
You deserve relationships built on love, not fear. One conversation is all it takes to know whether we’re the right people to help you get there.
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