The Love Scout - Relationship Counselling Sydney

Signs of codependency often include putting others' needs consistently before your own, deriving your sense of worth primarily from helping or fixing others, and feeling anxious when not needed. In our counselling, we help you identify boundary issues, excessive caretaking behaviors, and difficulty expressing your own needs - patterns that often develop in response to childhood experiences or relationships with addicted or troubled individuals. Through compassionate exploration, our codependency counselling will help you recognize codependent tendencies in your relationships and develop greater awareness of when you're abandoning yourself to maintain connection with others.

Through our codependency counselling, you'll develop healthier boundaries and the confidence to express your authentic needs and feelings without fear of abandonment or rejection. We'll help you recognize self-worth beyond caretaking roles, enabling you to create relationships based on mutual respect rather than emotional dependency or control. Our approach supports you in breaking free from anxiety-driven patterns of people-pleasing and self-neglect, ultimately fostering more balanced, fulfilling connections where you can both give and receive genuinely.

Codependency creates imbalanced relationships where one person chronically sacrifices their needs while becoming excessively focused on managing their partner's emotions and behaviors. In our codependency counselling, we explore how this pattern leads to resentment, emotional exhaustion, and paradoxically, increased conflict as unexpressed needs eventually surface in unhealthy ways. We help couples understand how codependent dynamics undermine authentic intimacy and trust, replacing genuine connection with control strategies, caretaking, and anxiety-based attachments that ultimately leave both partners feeling unseen and unfulfilled.