Faculty

Nancy L. Johnston is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Substance Abuse Treatment Practitioner in private practice in Lexington, VA, US. With 49 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 four books on codependency - Disentangle: When You've Lost Your Self in Someone Else 2nd Edition (2020), My Life as a Border Collie: Freedom from Codependency (2012), The Clinician’s Codependency Treatment Workbook (2024), and You. Here. Today.: 200 Readings for Growth from Codependency to Self-Recovery (2026).

Nancy has digital seminars produced with PESI for clinicians on treating codependency including, “The Codependency Treatment Guide: CBT, Somatic Strategies and More to Disentangle Clients from Dysfunctional Relationships and Recover Self” (2022) and “2-Day Advanced Codependency Treatment: A Complete Guide to CBT, Somatic, and Family-of-Origin Strategies to Disentangle Clients from Toxic Relationships and Recover Self.”

Nancy offers online workshops and clinical consultations on self-recovery 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 26 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 and 2026.