Anna Sonoda was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and moved to the States in the mid 1980s. She is a graduate of Emory University, where she double majored in Anthropology and French Studies. Anna earned her Master's degree in Social Work in 2006 at the University of Georgia School of Social Work. She received her clinical license in 2009.
Her clinical experiences include residential mental health, outpatient anger management and domestic violence intervention, and dual diagnosis in both residential and outpatient settings. By far her most influential clinical work came during her years as a cognitive behavioral therapist to sexual offenders. Her counseling experience was enhanced after she became the mother to five children, where she saw firsthand that grooming is where caring adults must focus their attention.