Destigmatize Trauma Treatment
Trauma therapy leverages on neuroscience to develop an understanding of how traumatization affects the brain, dismantling common misconceptions and to stop victim-blaming...
Ms Antonieta Contreras
Licensed Clinical Social Workers
“Passionate about the understanding distress, especially trauma-related. Faculty, supervisor, consultant, therapist, and author.”
About Me
I am passionate about helping you explore the deep roots of your distress, especially when it stems from past trauma. Many find lasting relief in truly understanding what drives their feelings. As an experienced therapist and author, I guide you to uncover patterns and build clarity. Our work together creates a solid foundation for your well-being, moving beyond surface-level challenges. This approach suits those ready for a thoughtful, in-depth journey towards healing.
Approach
Understanding your unique characteristics guides how I work: sessions move with careful curiosity, tracing how culture, experiences, lessons, and hurts show up now in relationships and the body. I see clients in New York and online, in English or Spanish, and aim to hold a steady, contained space where pacing follows your readiness. Together we use reflective conversation, somatic noticing and practical experiments between meetings to reveal patterns and create clearer choices. This approach tends to suit adults, couples and organizations ready for candid, thoughtful exploration.
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Basic Information
Services
Services Offered:
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Relationship Counseling
Counselling for couples or partners focused on improving communication, rebuilding trust, and strengthening emotional connection.
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Supervision
Professional oversight for therapists and counsellors, providing guidance, ethical support, and reflective space for their clinical work.
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Sex Therapy
Specialised therapy addressing sexual concerns such as low desire, performance anxiety, pain during sex, or mismatched needs between partners.
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Brainspotting
A therapy that uses fixed eye positions to access and process unresolved trauma stored in the brain and body.
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Coaching
A goal-oriented practice focused on identifying objectives, overcoming obstacles, and taking action, centred on the present and future rather than past difficulties.
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Counselling
A form of talk therapy providing a safe, confidential space to explore feelings, thoughts, and behaviours with a trained professional.
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EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, a therapy that uses guided eye movements to help the brain process and integrate traumatic memories.
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Integrative Psychotherapy
An approach that draws on multiple therapeutic models, tailored to the individual, rather than following a single method.
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MBCT (Mindfulness-Based CBT)
A therapy combining mindfulness meditation with cognitive behavioural techniques, designed particularly to prevent relapse in depression.
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Neuropsychology
A specialist field that assesses and addresses cognitive difficulties related to brain conditions, injury, or neurodevelopmental disorders.
Works With:
- •Adults
- •Couples
- •Organisations
Area of Expertise
Scope of Practice:
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Relationship Issues
Difficulties in romantic relationships, including communication problems, trust breakdowns, conflict patterns, or uncertainty about the relationship's future.
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Trauma
The lasting psychological impact of deeply distressing events, such as violence, abuse, accidents, or disasters, that overwhelm a person's ability to cope.
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Career Issues
Work-related difficulties such as chronic dissatisfaction, conflict, burnout, uncertainty about direction, or the stress of career change.
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Career Planning
The process of exploring professional options, clarifying goals, and making decisions about one's career path and direction.
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Codependency
A relational pattern in which a person's sense of identity and self-worth becomes excessively tied to caring for or controlling another person, often at their own expense.
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Family Issues
Difficulties within the family system, including conflict, communication breakdown, blended family tensions, or intergenerational patterns, that affect individual and collective well-being.
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Identity & Self-Image
A person's sense of who they are, including their values, beliefs, roles, and self-perception, and the distress that arises when this sense is unclear, fragmented, or negative.
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Personal Development
The ongoing process of self-awareness, self-improvement, and reaching one's potential, pursued not because something is wrong but to live more fully.
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Personality Difficulties
Long-standing patterns of thinking, feeling, and relating to others that cause persistent distress or problems in relationships and daily life.
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PTSD
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, a condition that develops after a traumatic event, causing flashbacks, nightmares, hypervigilance, and emotional numbness.
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Professional Title:
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Licensed Clinical Social Workers
A social worker licensed to provide clinical therapy, diagnosis, and treatment for mental health conditions.
Qualifications
New York University
Registrations
NSW
LCSW
