Anne Contreras, MACP, MFTi is Director of Programs and a national trainer for Pure Edge, Inc., whose work centers around supporting administrators, educators, and younger learners with tools in support of their emotion regulation to deal with the many stressors that can be a part of our education system.

She holds an MA in Counseling Psychology and a BA in International Relations (focus area: global development in South & SE Asia). She is certified in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Advanced Group Therapy Process, and Breath-Body-Mind™ - Coherent Breathwork by Dr. Richard Brown and Dr. Patricia Gerbarg. She completed two years of doctoral work in International Psychology with a concentration in trauma and is currently pursuing a PhD in Somatic Psychology (Body-mind design therapeutic approach). She was born/raised in San Francisco, CA and currently resides in Hawaii.