About Dorian
Dorian obtained his master’s degree in spiritual (“transpersonal”) psychological counseling from a Buddhist-inspired university (Naropa), has trained in pastoral ministry, holds his Bachelor’s in religious studies, and has bridged spiritually-informed clinical work with issues of queer (LGBTQIA) individuals and those living with PTSD or other trauma-based injuries.
Dorian takes a warm, gentle approach with everyone he works with trusting that a safety-first, culturally sensitive, and relationship-focused approach to therapy can heal the wounds of the past. Dorian is certified with EMDRIA to provide Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) for trauma-based distress as well as in Gestalt psychotherapy.
Over the past 15 years, in PhD training at Penn State, at the Veterans Administration, and in university counseling, Dorian has worked with several hundred people on many of the following concerns:
- Depression and anxiety
- Grief/loss and transitions
- Relationship and family issues
- PTSD / trauma, intimate partner violence
- Multicultural, racial / ethnic concerns
- Gay, lesbian, and bisexual issues
- Transgender and other gender identities
- Loneliness, social anxiety, alienation
- Career counseling, job stress
- Academic concerns, international students
- Religious and cult abuse
- Religious minorities (Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, neo-pagan, etc.)
- Spiritual crisis/adverse meditation and prayer experiences
- HIV/AIDS, chronic illness, chronic pain, disability, aging, and dying
In 2015 Dorian was selected by the Yale School of Medicine to train in the clinical concerns of LGBT military Veterans. He has published both in issues of counseling gay male survivors of domestic violence and of aging transgender individuals. Dorian has devoted 7 months to silent spiritual retreats in both Western and non-Western religious traditions. He has participated in non-mainstream religious communities including assisting in two Sun Dances of the Lakota Nation in South Dakota. Dorian happily invites you in sharing whatever work of whole-i-ness you may be embarking on at this time in your life whether you identify with any form of spirituality or not.
Methods of therapy Dorian often uses include relational-cultural, Gestalt / existential, internal family systems, trauma-informed, Jungian, mindfulness-based, feminist, and cognitive-behavioral.