Faculty

Nancy L. Johnston, MS, LPC, LSATP, MAC, NCC is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Substance Abuse Treatment Practitioner in private practice in Lexington, VA, US. With 48 years of clinical experience, Nancy is Master Addiction Counselor and an American Mental Health Counselors Association (AMCHA) Diplomate in Substance Abuse & Co-Occurring Disorders. She has authored three books on codependency - two published by Central Recovery Press: Disentangle: When You've Lost Your Self in Someone Else 2nd Edition (2020) and My Life as a Border Collie: Freedom from Codependency (2012) and the third published by PESI Publishing: The Clinician’s Codependency Treatment Workbook (2024).
 
Nancy has two digital seminars produced with PESI for clinicians on treating codependency: “Codependence: Treatment Strategies for Clients Who Lose Themselves in Others” (2020) and “The Codependency Treatment Guide: CBT, Somatic Strategies and More to Disentangle Clients from Dysfunctional Relationships and Recover Self” (2022).
 
Nancy offers online Self-Recovery workshops and delights in designing and facilitating Codependence Camp twice/year in person at a retreat site in VA. Codependence Camp has been in operation since 2004.
 
Over the past 25 years Nancy has presented at numerous conferences including the Cape Cod Symposium on Addictive Disorders, the Carolinas Conference for Addiction and Recovery, Addiction: Focus on Women, the Virginia Summer Institute for Addiction Studies, the American Mental Health Counselors Association’s Annual Conference, the Virginia Counselors Association’s Annual Conference, Specialty Docket Training for the Virginia Supreme Court, and the Psychotherapy Networker Symposium 2025.