Support and therapy groups

Therapy group for codependent people

When someone close to you drinks or is addicted, your whole life starts to revolve around them. This group is about you – about reclaiming your own life, your boundaries and your peace of mind.

Signing up is free and without obligation – we'll get in touch when the group starts to form.

What is codependency and how does the group work?

Codependency is an entrenched way of functioning in a close relationship with an addicted person: living in constant tension, controlling, hiding the problem from the world, taking responsibility for someone else’s drinking and its consequences, giving up your own needs. It is an adaptation to an abnormal situation – understandable, but debilitating.

The group brings together people with similar experiences: partners, parents of adult children, adult children of addicted parents. The work focuses on what you can really influence: your boundaries, your emotions, your life. We don’t teach “how to make him stop drinking” – because that is beyond your control. We teach you how to stop disappearing from your own life.

The group is led by a psychotherapist experienced in treating addiction and codependency. Taking part does not require the addicted person to be in treatment – help for their loved ones works independently.

Who is this group for?

  • ✓partners of people addicted to alcohol and other substances
  • ✓parents of adult children with an addiction problem
  • ✓people whose lives revolve around a loved one’s drinking or addiction
  • ✓people struggling with guilt, shame and loneliness in a relationship with an addicted person
  • ✓people who “hold everything together” at their own expense

What will you gain?

  • ✓understanding the mechanisms of codependency and your role in them
  • ✓the ability to set boundaries without guilt
  • ✓separating your own responsibility from that of the addicted person
  • ✓support from people who really understand – because they live in a similar way
  • ✓regaining your energy, peace of mind and your own plans

What does it look like in practice?

Formatin person (Gdańsk or Gdynia) or online
Group size6-10 people
Sessionsweekly, 90 minutes
Startonce the group is complete – people on the waiting list are invited first
Admissionfree, no-obligation initial conversation

Join the waiting list

Group for codependent people – the group will start once enough people have signed up. Leave your contact details and when enrolment opens, we'll get in touch with you first.

The controller of the data you provide to join the waiting list will be Magdalena Raba, running a business under the business name RABA Magdalena Raba, ul. Konstantego Bergiela 4/10, 80-180 Gdańsk, NIP: 5833557278. How we process personal data: www.sztukaharmonii.pl/en/polityka-prywatnosci

Frequently asked questions

Answers to the most important questions

My loved one doesn’t want treatment. Is there any point in me going to therapy?▼

Yes – in two ways. First, help for you works regardless of what the addicted person does: you regain your peace of mind, your boundaries and your sense of agency. Second, a change in how you function often changes the dynamics of the whole relationship – you stop unknowingly sustaining the addiction (e.g. by softening its consequences).

How is this group different from Al-Anon?▼

Al-Anon is a self-help fellowship based on the 12-step programme – valuable and free, but without a therapist leading it. Our group is a therapy group: it is led by a psychotherapist and has a fixed membership, a structure and therapeutic goals. You can combine both.

Are there people in the group whose situation is similar to mine?▼

We put the group together during the initial conversations, making sure that participants’ experiences are similar enough for mutual understanding to come naturally – and at the same time different enough to broaden perspectives.

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Questions before you sign up?

Call us or join the list – before the group starts, we'll talk anyway during a free initial conversation.

Mon-Fri 8:00-22:00 · Sat-Sun 9:00-21:00