Autonomy, reassurance and fear of separation
Online Therapy for Dependent Personality Disorder
Therapy for difficulty making decisions alone, setting boundaries or tolerating disagreement when independence feels likely to cost you the relationship.
Psy. Moustafa Kamel, Psychotherapist
Registered with the Romanian Psychologists Association, registration number A-7729.
Clinical work with attachment anxiety, reassurance seeking, boundaries and the development of safer autonomy.
Online sessions in English and Arabic.
When does needing support become a loss of your own voice?
You may know what you want until someone important disagrees. Decisions are delayed, reassurance is requested repeatedly, and mistreatment can be tolerated because being alone feels more dangerous than staying.
Dependence is often mistaken for weakness. In therapy it is understood as an organised way of preserving safety and attachment, often learned where disagreement, independence or mistakes carried a high relational cost.
What does assessment examine beyond reassurance seeking?
Assessment explores decision-making, separation fears, boundaries, practical reliance, coercion, attachment history, depression, anxiety and the balance of power in current relationships. Cultural and family expectations about interdependence are considered carefully.
Healthy reliance is not pathologised. The question is whether dependence repeatedly removes choice, safety or self-respect.
How does therapy build autonomy without forcing separation?
Schema-informed work identifies beliefs such as I cannot cope alone or disagreement means abandonment. Behavioural experiments build decision-making in tolerable steps, while assertiveness and emotion-regulation work support boundaries.
The aim is not isolation. It is the ability to remain connected while thinking, choosing and speaking as a separate person.
What does progress look like when attachment still matters?
Progress may include making a small decision without repeated checking, saying no without a long apology, tolerating another person's disappointment and choosing relationships from care rather than fear. Autonomy grows gradually through repeated experience.
Online sessions are available in English or Arabic, subject to the professional and legal requirements that apply where you live.
Online therapy is planned care, not emergency support. Current risk, stability and access to local support are considered during assessment.
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You can book an initial session or write first. We will consider what is happening, what support is appropriate and whether online therapy is a suitable setting.