I am fangirling so hard this week because I had the honor of interviewing one of my personal heroes for this one.

Dr. Barbara Steffens literally wrote the book on how to work with partners of sex addicts.

Your Sexually Addicted Spouse: How Partners Can Cope and Heal, has dramatically changed the lives of survivors of betrayal trauma, not to mention the professionals who are trained to serve them (like myself)!

She has specialized in sex addiction and helping partners of sex addicts for more than two decades.

She was one of the founders of APSATS (Association of Partners of Sex Addicts Trauma Specialists), a non-profit organization dedicated to the training, certification, education, research and advocacy for treatment of relational and betrayal trauma.

Dr. Steffens is a hero for anyone healing from betrayal trauma.

In this episode, we talk about what led her to the front lines of inspiring such massive change in this field.  Like many of us, her journey started with her own betrayal trauma.

When seeking guidance, she kept finding professionals and material that emphasized victim blaming and used terminology such as "co-addict" and "co-dependent". Dr. Steffens quickly recognized that there was an enormous opportunity for growth in both the understanding of, and the treatment of, betrayal trauma.

She went back to school and earned her PhD so she could lean into this work on a much deeper level, and she ended up helping revolutionize the way that we talk about betrayal trauma, and how we help those going through it.

Join us for this thought-provoking and inspirational conversation with the one and only Dr. Barbara Steffens, as she offers us professional support, guidance and understanding of how we look at betrayal trauma today.

xoxo, Jenni

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