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Codependency: An Addiction Framework

  • Sunday, November 08, 2026
  • 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Online ZOOM
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Title
Codependency: An Addiction Framework
Date
November 8, 2026
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Location
Online ZOOM
Presenter
Ed Geraty, LCSW-C (MD), LICSW (WV), LCSW (VA), LICSW (DC)
CEUs
CEUs: Category 1 | 3.0 ETHICS CREDIT
Description
This presentation explores codependency as a pattern in which approval, caretaking, or rescuing becomes central to self-worth and emotional relief. The addiction paradigm helps examine repeated urges, brief relief, and continuing costs. Childhood learning and relationship fears offer possible pathways to explore. Practical examples connect self-awareness with boundaries, mindfulness, and mutual care. Recovery emphasizes greater choice while respecting safety and caregiving duties.
Learning Objectives

At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

  1. Practical examples connect self-awareness with boundaries, mindfulness, and mutual care. Recovery emphasizes greater choice while respecting safety and caregiving duties.
  2. Describe a cycle of trigger, compulsive response, temporary relief, and continuing cost.
  3. Identify how childhood learning and relationship fears may shape current reactions.
  4. Demonstrate a mindfulness pause and a boundary statement in a relationship scenario.
  5. Develop a recovery plan that includes personal needs, support, and responses to setbacks.
Agenda
10:00 - 10:15 Intro greeting
10:15 - 10:45 Understanding codependency
10:45 - 11:00 The addiction framework
11:00 - 11:30 Childhood patterns
11:30 - 11:45 Signs of compulsion
11:45 - 12:00 Break
12:00 - 12:30 Detachment, boundaries and control
12:30 - 12:45 Rebuilding a relationship with yourself
12:45 - 1:00 Relapse
1:00 - 1:15 Closing
Recommended Reading
  • The Clinician’s Codependency Treatment Workbook: 66 Self-Recovery Strategies for Clients Who Lose Themselves in Others by Nancy L. Johnston
  • Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself (Revised and Updated) by Melody Beattie
  • Facing Codependence: What It Is, Where It Comes from, How It Sabotages Our Lives by Pia Mellody
Camera-On Required
GWSCSW is committed to verifying that the same standards are as applicable for virtual workshops as in person workshops. The participant must be observed as present and attending both; therefore virtual workshop attendance requires participants to keep their video camera on for the duration of the presentation, except during scheduled breaks, to receive CEUs.
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Continuing Education Information
DC, VA, MD Social Work -- Category 1 | 3.0 CEUs
Greater Washington Society for Clinical Social Work is authorized by the Board of Social Work Examiners in is DC, Maryland, and Virginia to sponsor social work continuing education learning activities and maintains full responsibility for this program.
NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider
NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider -- 3.0 Credit Hours
Greater Washington Society for Clinical Social Work has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7880. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Greater Washington Society for Clinical Social Work is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
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