MAUREEN CANNING ON CONTEMPORARY SEX ADDICTION TREATMENT
As part of its series on addiction and trauma, The Meadows is pleased to present a video featuring Maureen Canning discussing sexual addiction in women.
In the third video in her nine-part series, Maureen Canning, MA, LMFT, talks about contemporary methods for treating sexual addiction.
“One of the things we do differently at The Meadows is that we really look at the family of origin,” she says. “We address the addictive process – and we’re very good at doing that – but we also look at the underlying issues.”
Ms. Canning adds that most sex addicts have deep-seated feelings of shame and inherent worthlessness. They feel they don’t deserve to be loved, heard, or emotionally safe.
“They’re looking for someone to hear them, to see them, and to love them,” Ms. Canning explains. “And when we help them to understand, it automatically reduces the shame. And reducing the shame starts the process of recovery.”
Ms. Canning is a clinical consultant and senior fellow at The Meadows of Wickenburg and a clinical consultant at Dakota, The Meadows’ extended-care facility dedicated to treating sexual addiction and trauma. She has taught extensively about sexual disorders, and her clinical experience includes individual, couples, and family counseling; workshops; lectures; educational training; and interventions. She has written several books, including Lust, Anger, Love: Understanding Sexual Addiction and The Road to Healthy Intimacy.
In other videos in the series, she discusses such topics as the nature of healthy sexuality, how sexual addiction can kill, and what partners of sex addicts need to know.
View the entire series of The Meadows’ videos, including interviews with John Bradshaw and Dr. Jerry Boriskin, at www.youtube.com/themeadowswickenburg.
For more about The Meadows’ innovative treatment program for addiction and trauma, visit www.themeadows.org or call The Meadows at 800-244-4949.
