You’ve spent your life taking care of everyone else. Now it’s your turn.
Therapy for Codependency and Adult Children of Alcoholics in Marietta, GA.
Break Free From the Role of the Caretaker
Finding yourself consumed with the caretaking of others, or habits of people pleasing, are often traits of a codependent person. Feeling the weight and fear of what might happen if you don’t continue these behaviors is taxing and stressful. Therapy can help you begin to live life in a way that isn’t ruled by fear of another person’s choices.
Codependency can feel like living your life in reaction to everyone else’s. You might find yourself constantly scanning for signs that someone is upset, withdrawing when there’s conflict, or overextending yourself just to keep the peace. You might say “yes” when everything in you wants to say “no”—and then feel resentful or exhausted afterward. It’s not that you don’t care. It’s that you’ve been taught that your safety and self-worth depend on being needed, agreeable, or endlessly available.
These behaviors are often rooted in childhood experiences—growing up in unpredictable environments, learning to take responsibility for others’ emotions, or being praised only when you were helping. As a result, many codependent people don’t feel fully themselves unless they’re doing for others. But it comes at a cost: burnout, resentment, disconnection from your own needs, and a deep sense of loneliness.
In therapy, we slow everything down. We explore where these patterns came from and, more importantly, what they’re costing you today. You’ll learn to name your needs, set boundaries without guilt, and begin to separate your sense of self from your role as the “helper” or “fixer.” This is not selfish work—it’s life-giving. You are allowed to exist outside of who you are to other people.
Codependency therapy in Marietta, GA offers you a path back to yourself. A place to reclaim your energy, your voice, and your right to live from authenticity instead of obligation.
Ready to start your healing?
Heal the Past. Reclaim Your Present.
Growing up in a home with an alcoholic parent tends to foster the growth of codependent or enabling relationships. Here, a parentified child grows up to be an Adult Child of an Alcoholic. You are not alone in your experiences from childhood or now as an adult. Therapy can help you resolve the shame and guilt you battle on a daily basis.
If you grew up with a parent who struggled with addiction, chances are you learned early on how to read a room, fix a crisis, and stuff your feelings down to survive. Maybe you were the responsible one, making dinner or helping siblings while chaos swirled around you. Or maybe you learned to disappear—to stay quiet, stay small, and stay safe.
These roles don’t disappear just because you grow up. You might find that you still anticipate others’ emotions, fear abandonment, avoid conflict, or struggle with intimacy. You may also feel a deep sense of shame or guilt that’s hard to explain, as if you’re fundamentally flawed or not enough, even when you're outwardly successful. These are the invisible wounds that many ACOAs carry.
Therapy for Adult Children of Alcoholics is a space to grieve what you didn’t get, to make sense of why you feel the way you do, and to start forming a relationship with yourself that isn’t based on survival. We explore the messages you internalized—like “my needs don’t matter” or “I have to hold everything together”—and begin to loosen their grip.
As a therapist in Marietta, GA who specializes in ACOA recovery, I offer more than just coping strategies. Together, we’ll build a new foundation rooted in self-trust, boundaries, and emotional safety. You’ll begin to feel more grounded in your own truth—not defined by your past, but informed by it.
You didn’t choose the circumstances you were raised in. But you can choose what happens next.
Let’s work through it together.
Rebuild Connection, Communication, and Trust
Family relationships can be the most meaningful—and the most complicated. When communication breaks down or old patterns repeat themselves, it’s easy to feel stuck in cycles of blame, silence, or resentment. Whether you're navigating recovery, estrangement, a parent-child conflict, or generational trauma, family therapy can help.
Maybe it feels like you're having the same fight over and over. Or one family member always ends up being the scapegoat. Perhaps there's been a major rupture—a betrayal, a divorce, a loss—and you're all trying to make sense of what comes next. In families where addiction or mental illness is present, relationships can become rigid, roles can become fixed, and healing can feel out of reach.
But healing is possible—even if it’s been years. In family therapy, I help families explore their relational patterns without blame. Instead of focusing on who’s “right” or “wrong,” we get curious about what each person is carrying and what each person needs. That might include learning to communicate more clearly, setting healthier boundaries, or understanding how past dynamics are impacting the present.
Sometimes, family members need help understanding each other again. Parents want to reconnect with teens. Siblings want to stop repeating the distance or rivalry that defined childhood. Adult children want to establish new boundaries with parents while still staying connected. Wherever you are in your family journey, therapy offers a chance to pause, reflect, and rebuild.
As a family therapist in Marietta, GA, I offer a nonjudgmental space where everyone has a voice. My role is to help you reconnect in ways that feel honest, healthy, and sustainable. We may not be able to rewrite the past, but we can write a different future—one that feels more connected, compassionate, and collaborative.
Let’s repair the family story together.
Want Help Choosing the Right Starting Point?
If you're not sure whether codependency therapy, ACOA work, or family sessions are the best fit, that’s okay. Many clients don’t know where to begin—that’s what the first session is for.