Addiction
A pattern in which a substance or behaviour continues despite the harm it causes.
How it shows up
It isn’t a question of quantity but of proportion: how much space it takes and what happens when you try to stop. Addiction rarely affects only one person — the family rearranges itself around it and becomes part of the pattern.
What we do with it in therapy
I work with the family part of the picture: with the roles that formed and the boundaries that blurred. Treating the addiction itself requires specialist help, which I don’t provide, but I will help you find it.
See also
Parenting styles
Ways of parenting that differ in how much warmth and how much demand they contain.
Polyvagal theory
A model describing three states of the nervous system: safe connection, mobilisation and freeze.
EMDR
A method for processing traumatic memories using bilateral stimulation, most often eye movements.
