Samantha Dorian

Psychotherapist practicing modern psychoanalytic, psychodynamic psychotherapy.

New neuroscience research validates an approach to helping individuals manage extreme states by incorporating an awareness of embodied experience. The results of this research is rarely applied to patient treatment for those suffering extreme states such as hearing voices or having visions (otherwise called visual or auditory hallucinations). Ms. Dorian proposes combining this neuroscience research and mindfulness practices of focused awareness. These experiences in the production of visual art or movement of the body allow for the primed psychic apparatus to become malleable and ripe for change. These approaches have been on the margins of the alternative psychiatry movement for many years and are combined —for the first time - in the curriculum of Sculpt Your Mind™.

The future 501(c)(3)—Sculpt Your Mind™ requires only the desire to know one's own mind. It aims at integrating the embodied experiences of sense perception with the awareness of the here & now, bridging the meditative technique of concentration with group psychodynamics and interpersonal connection. The freedom of expression allows for agency as well as a new awareness of one’s unique nature; stimulating neuropathic reconstructions through imagination & visual representations also creates space for new possibilities for positive sublimation & integration. Neural plasticity ranges from functional to structural and the possibilities for better care for this population are endless with the tools and curriculum created for Sculpt Your Mind™ by Samantha Dorian.

View Ms. Dorian on Psychology Today: Samantha Dorian, Brookline, MA, 02446 | Psychology Today

Concurrent Leadership, Service and Professional Activities:

    •    Founder and Director, Sculpt Your Mind Foundation

    •    Private Practice, Brookline, MA

    •    Northeastern Society for Group Psychotherapy, Board Member at Large

      Professional Affiliations

    •    Member and Training Committee, Northeastern Society for Group Psychotherapy

    •    Member, American Psychological Association

    •    Member, The Massachusetts Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology

 •    Member, ISPS-US International Society for psychological & social approaches to psychosis

Advanced Training/Certifications:

    •    Northeastern Society Group Psychotherapy, Certificate in Principles of Group Psychotherapy

    •    Meditation Training with IMS & BCBS, Barre MA, Blue Sky Leadership Program, CIIS, California

    •    MIP (Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis) Certificate in Post-Graduate Fellowship Program in Psychoanalytic Studies

    •    12 years of Crisis training / deescalation training Butler Memorial Hospital, Providence RI

Ms. Dorian is pursuing her clinical doctorate in psychoanalysis in order to help individuals suffering from extreme states such as psychosis and "schizophrenia". Her interests in alternative treatments for psychosis began when she brought her three passions together - visual arts, meditation and psychodynamic group work. Through teaching meditation techniques combined with creative flow experience new therapeutic avenues were opened up for her patients on an intensive treatment unit. Samantha works as a program therapist in a hospital and is the founder of the future 501(c)(3) organization Sculpt Your Mind™.

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To inquire about joining a Sculpt Your Mind workshop™, or psychodynamic group, (limit 6-7 members), or if you have any questions, please call & leave a confidential message with Samantha Dorian at (617) 501-2715.