Therapy for Codependency & People-Pleasing in Calgary

Reconnect With Yourself, Reclaim Your Voice, and Build Healthier Relationships

You’re the one people count on. You make sure others feel comfortable, cared for, and never disappointed — often at the expense of your own needs. You’re the one who keeps the peace, smooths things over, and says yes even when your body says no.

But underneath the caretaking and people-pleasing, you might feel exhausted… resentful… anxious… or unsure who you even are anymore.

At Core Psychology, we offer therapy for codependency and people-pleasing that is compassionate, insight-oriented, and change-focused. Whether these patterns come from your past, your relationships, or both — therapy can help you reconnect with your needs, your worth, and your inner sense of stability.

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What Is Codependency or People-Pleasing?

These patterns often begin as coping strategies — ways to stay safe, get love, or maintain connection in relationships where we may have felt responsible for others’ emotions or well-being. Over time, they can lead to:

  • Difficulty saying no or setting boundaries

  • Chronic guilt or fear of disappointing others

  • Anxiety around conflict or emotional disconnection

  • Over-functioning in relationships or taking on a “fixer” role

  • A lack of clarity around your own needs, wants, or identity

  • Feeling resentful, depleted, or unsure what intimacy should feel like

These patterns aren’t your fault — but they are something you can shift, with the right support.

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What Therapy for Codependency Can Help With

🔹Understanding the roots of people-pleasing tendencies

🔹Learning how to set and hold healthy boundaries without guilt

🔹Reclaiming your voice, needs, and sense of self

🔹Navigating relationships where dynamics feel imbalanced

🔹Reducing over-responsibility for others’ emotions or behaviours

🔹Working through attachment wounds or fears of abandonment

🔹Developing emotional resilience and self-trust

Whether this shows up in your romantic relationships, family dynamics, friendships, or work — we’ll support you in creating change that’s sustainable and grounded in self-worth, not self-sacrifice.

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Our Therapeutic Approach

We take a non-pathologizing, attachment-based approach, rooted in compassion, clarity, and care. Therapy may include:

  • Attachment-based Therapy – to explore early relational patterns

  • ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) – to strengthen values-based living and self-trust

  • DBT-informed strategies – for boundary-setting, emotional regulation, and assertiveness

  • Inner child and self-compassion work – to reconnect with needs and nurture internal security

  • Narrative or parts work – to shift unhelpful beliefs (like “I’m only valuable when I’m helpful”)

Each session is tailored to your pace, your personality, and your goals. You don’t have to “be fixed” — you just have to be willing to be curious, open, and ready for something new.

Who We Work With

We support adults and older teens who identify with:

  • Over-functioning or emotional caretaking in relationships

  • “Good girl/good guy” or perfectionistic identities

  • Difficulty tolerating others’ discomfort or disapproval

  • Past trauma, emotional neglect, or enmeshment

  • Repeated relationship patterns that feel one-sided or unstable

Whether you’re noticing these patterns for the first time or you’ve been trying to work on them for years, you don’t have to do this alone.

  • Confidence in saying no — without spiraling into guilt

  • Feeling connected to your own needs and emotions

  • Experiencing real intimacy without self-abandonment

  • Being able to speak up, stay grounded, and hold your boundaries

  • Letting go of the belief that your worth depends on your usefulness

  • Showing up in relationships as your full self — not just the version that makes others comfortable

You can still be thoughtful, generous, and caring — without abandoning yourself in the process.

What Healing Can Look Like

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If you’re ready to stop shrinking, overextending, or hustling for connection — we’re here to support you in reclaiming space in your own life.

You deserve relationships that feel mutual, fulfilling, and anchored in your truth.

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Where you can find us.

Located in the heart of Marda Loop in Calgary, our office offers a tranquil
space where you can take a breath and focus on you.