Anna Sonoda, LCSW is a graduate of Emory University, where she double-majored in Anthropology and French Studies, and earned her Master’s in Social Work from the University of Georgia in 2006. She became a licensed clinical social worker in 2009.
With a career spanning counseling convicted sexual offenders, working in residential mental health, leading anger management and domestic violence programs, and supporting individuals with dual diagnoses, Anna brings rare, front-line expertise into the realities of predatory behavior.
As both a clinician and a mother, she recognized a profound gap: society reacts to child sexual abuse after the fact but rarely teaches families how to stop it before it begins. This realization inspired her groundbreaking work, Duck Duck Groom: Understanding How a Child Becomes a Target (2022), a first-of-its-kind resource equipping parents and professionals to detect grooming before abuse occurs.
Her newest release, Duck Duck Groom: A Guided Journal, gives survivors a powerful tool to process how grooming shaped their experiences and reclaim their healing journey.
Today, Anna is a national voice on grooming prevention, teaching communities that abuse stops when grooming is detected.
Anna Sonoda, LCSW
1849 Clairmont Road, Decatur, Georgia 30033, United States