As a business and technology consultant for many years, I witnessed various instances of codependency in the workplace.
While codependency often presents itself in therapeutic settings, with clients experiencing poor mental health, addiction, or seeking help as adult children, it is also found in other professional settings (Arman et al., 2021).
Codependency can occur in any environment: individuals expecting too much support from one another, setting inappropriate boundaries, and displaying unfounded loyalty (Kelly, 2015; Arman et al., 2021).
In this article, we examine the potential of codependency to be damaging in any relationship and the actionable steps that we, as mental health professionals, can take in supporting recovery in our clients.
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