Clinical/Research Focus

Dual diagnosis, Serious Mental Illness, Substance Use, Perinatal Mental Health, Rural Populations

Clinical Training

  • Integrative Wellness, LLC: Outpatient group practice serving diverse patient populations in rural settings
  • IU Herron School of Art and Design: Research fellow for education on eating disorders in community mental health
  • IU School of Medicine: Clinician research scientist on IU tezampanel study for opioid withdrawal syndrome

Education

M.S. in art therapy, Indiana University, Herron School of Art and Design, 2021
B.S. in psychology, Purdue University, 2005

About

Prior to her role as an art therapist, Sentir spent 16 years in the field of addiction neuroscience at IU School of Medicine as a research analyst and project manager for a variety of grants. Her work in pre-clinical research focused on single and polysubstance use in rodent models of schizophrenia and genetic addiction vulnerability. She currently works as a co-project manager and direct service provider on the Indiana Community Catalyst Witham-Inwell grant offering integrated behavioral and primary healthcare to an under-resourced, rural population. Sentir enjoys working within this collaborative team to provide multifaceted and holistic care to all clients and, in particular, those with dual diagnosis and serious mental illness. She also has a private art therapy practice in Lebanon, IN where she focuses on women's issues as well as perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.

COURSES
Psychopathology and Advanced Diagnosis, Art Therapy with Adults

Licensing + Credentials

  • Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Indiana, 2024
  • Registered and Board-Certified Art Therapist, 2023
  • Certified Perinatal Mental Health Provider, Postpartum Support International, 2024

Publications (selected)

  • Chambers, R. A., & Sentir, A. M . (2019). Integrated effects of neonatal ventral hippocampal lesions and impoverished social-environmental rearing on endophenotypes of mental illness and addiction vulnerability. Developmental Neuroscience, 41 (5–6), 263–273. https://doi.org/10.1159/000506227

  • Sentir, A. M ., Bell, R. L., Engleman, E. A., & Chambers, R. A. (2018). Polysubstance addiction vulnerability in mental illness: Concurrent alcohol and nicotine self‐administration in the neurodevelopmental hippocampal lesion rat model of schizophrenia. Addiction Biology, 25 (1), e12704. https://doi.org/10.1111/adb.12704  

  • Chambers, R. A., Sentir, A. M ., & Engleman, E. A. (2010). Ventral and dorsal striatal dopamine efflux and behavior in rats with simple vs. Co-morbid histories of cocaine sensitization and neonatal ventral hippocampal lesions. Psychopharmacology, 212 (1), 73–83. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-010-1929-1