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Dr. Contreras is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Cambridge, MA. Dr. Contreras specializes in treating adults with complex relational and family histories. Helping people develop healthy and meaningful relationships is central to her practice. Also critical is attention to a person's ability for full expression and participation in life through love, work, and creativity. Ultimately, her goal is to support the person through a psychotherapy experience that will result in more freedom of mind to experience plenitude in relationships and life. Working towards this goal requires examination of unconscious processes, symptoms, and shifting mind, and identity states. These are revealed through deep reflection about past and present relationships, anxieties, fears, feelings of depression, repetitive thoughts and hurt about traumatic experiences, obsessions, unwanted changes in mood and affect, as well as strengths and sources of resilience. Dr. Contreras completed her clinical psychology and postdoctoral training at Cambridge Hospital/Harvard Medical School. She received her Psy.D at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology and a clinical psychology degree at Universidad Rafael Landívar in Guatemala City. She is a psychoanalyst member at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute and an Associate Professor at William James College.
Dr. Contreras is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Cambridge, MA. Dr. Contreras specializes in treating adults with complex relational and family histories. Helping people develop healthy and meaningful relationships is central to her practice. Also critical is attention to a person's ability for full expression and participation in life through love, work, and creativity. Ultimately, her goal is to support the person through a psychotherapy experience that will result in more freedom of mind to experience plenitude in relationships and life. Working towards this goal requires examination of unconscious processes, symptoms, and shifting mind, and identity states. These are revealed through deep reflection about past and present relationships, anxieties, fears, feelings of depression, repetitive thoughts and hurt about traumatic experiences, obsessions, unwanted changes in mood and affect, as well as strengths and sources of resilience. Dr. Contreras completed her clinical psychology and postdoctoral training at Cambridge Hospital/Harvard Medical School. She received her Psy.D at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology and a clinical psychology degree at Universidad Rafael Landívar in Guatemala City. She is a psychoanalyst member at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute and an Associate Professor at William James College.
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