Antonieta Contreras

Antonieta Contreras, a former banker originally educated as a mathematician, is a trauma psychotherapist who graduated from NYU SSSW. After forming her clinical skills as a gestalt therapist and training at agencies with highly traumatized people, she received a specialization in Trauma Studies from the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapies (ICP) and in Human Sexuality from NYU School of Medicine. She maintains a private practice where she combines different trauma modalities including psychedelic integration as well as the contemplative techniques that she learned from studying within Buddhist traditions. She has been a consultant, supervisor, and faculty at ICP, where she spent years building and teaching the curriculum of a postgraduate program to train clinicians in becoming trauma therapists. She also teaches sexual trauma at NYU, runs EMDR groups toward certification, frequently interacts with followers who seek out her answers about traumatization online and has given talks in hospitals, agencies, and universities to create awareness about trauma. She's the author of Traumatization and Its Aftermath (Routledge, 2023).