Licensure
  • Massachusetts License #9984
Training
  • Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute -Candidate, Adult Program
  • Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance - Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Program for Psychotherapy
  • Harvard Medical School / Cambridge Health Alliance - Pre-Doctoral Clinical Psychology, Adult Acute Services Track
  • Wellesley College -Pre-Doctoral Practicum, The Stone Center Counseling Service
  • Harvard Medical School / Cambridge Health Alliance - Pre-Doctoral Practicum, Latino Mental Health Team
  • Trauma Center/Brookline, MA -Pre-Doctoral Practicum, Project Reach, Anti-Trafficking Consultation & Assessment Services

Education
  • Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute -Psychoanalyst
  • Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology- PsyD in Clinical Psychology 
  • Universidad Rafael Landívar, Guatemala City - BA & MA in Clinical Psychology

Recent Publications/Presentations
  • Contreras, P.M. (2021). Discussion of “Psychoanalysis in the Meantime”. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 31(1), 110-116.
  • Contreras, P.M. (2021). The magical and the my-person in Psychoanalysis during the covid pandemic. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 68(6), 1113-1126.
  • Contreras P.M. (2020). Identifying, Attending, and Protecting US Sex Trafficked Adults and Minors. In: Geffner R., White J., Hamberger L., Rosenbaum A., Vaughan-Eden V., Vieth V. (eds) Handbook of Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan. Springer, Cham. http://doi-org-443.webvpn.fjmu.edu.cn/10.1007/978-3-319-62122-7_222-2
  • American Psychological Association Task Force on the Trafficking of Women and Girls (2014). Report of the task force on trafficking of women and girls. Washington, D.C.: Author.
  • Contreras, P.M. (2018). Human Trafficking of Women and Girls in the United States: A Psychosocial Historical Definition. In Travis, C. (Ed.) APA Handbook of the Psychology of Women. Washington, D.C.: APA.
  • Contreras, P.M., Kalivayalil, D. & Herman, J.L. (2017). Psychotherapy in the aftermath of human trafficking: Working through the consequences of coercion. Women & Therapy.

​Honors, Awards & Committee Work
  • Arthur R. Kravitz Award for Community Action and Humanitarian Contributions Award, June 2019, Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, Newton, MA
  • Emerging Leader for Women in Psychology Award, The Committee on Women in Psychology of the American Psychological Association, August 2014, Washington, D.C.
  • Chair of APA’s Division 35 Special Committee on Violence Against Women November 2011-2014
  • Dr. Stephen Hayes Community Service and Training Award, Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, April 2011, Boston, MA
  • Appointed member of the APA’s Board for the Advancement of Psychology in the Public Interest’s (BAPPI) Task Force on Trafficking of Women and Girls, 2011-2014
  • Chair of APA’s Division 35 Task Force on the Feminist Perspectives on the Trafficking of Women, 2010-2012
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