The roles you learned to survive at home — the overachiever, the peacekeeper, the one who disappears — don't stay there. Family systems theory and psychoanalytic research explain why our earliest relationship patterns follow us into every workplace we enter, and what it actually takes to change them.

Always the strong one, the fixer, the emotional support friend? You may be overfunctioning in your relationships. Learn the psychodynamic roots of this pattern and how therapy can help you build mutual, supportive connections where you don’t have to carry it all alone.