Adena is a licensed clinical social worker in Arizona. She is also the author of 12 Healing Steps for Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse; A Practical Guide, and Practical Tools For The Treatment of Childhood Sexual Abuse, a manual for professional clinicians.

Adena has lectured to a variety of professionals throughout the Unites States on numerous topics, including; sexual abuse and how it relates to eating disorders, distorted body image, sex/co-sex addiction, the cycle of sex and love addiction, PTSD and dissociative disorders.

Adena masterfully illustrates the hope of recovery by sharing her own personal and professional experiences. She is able to delicately frame the immense effects and the lasting scars of sexual abuse and addiction in a way which integrates what happened with what is happening today. Her philosophy is "you can THRIVE, not just survive."

Adena's versatility shows in the diversity of professionals she has trained and presented for. Those include; Clinicians, Educators, Law Enforcement, Lawyers, Physicians, Child Protective Service Workers, Correction Officers and Judges.

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