Arien Muzacz
565 Union Street NE
200 SW 15th Street
Suite 207C
Salem, OR 97301
United States
Dr. Arien Muzacz (she/her) is a proud professional counselor, supervisor, educator, and advocate. She has been independently State-licensed in mental health counseling since 2011 and served as a clinical supervisor of mental health counselors and counselors-in-training (CITs) in public, non-profit, and community-based healthcare settings since 2013. Dr. Muzacz identifies as a humanistic counselor and educator and a multicultural-relational supervisor. In her counseling practice, she has worked with a client population rich in ethnic, racial, socioeconomic, and neurological diversity, ranging in age from late adolescence through older adulthood. She acknowledges the harmful effects of White centrality (Hardy, 2016) in healthcare and higher education systems and actively engages in advocacy while challenging oppressive policies and practices in the organizational systems with which she interacts.
As of 2024, Dr. Muzacz has solo authored or collaborated on 11 articles in peer-reviewed professional journals, three book chapters, and over 40 invited conference presentations on topics ranging from substance use prevention and integrated behavioral health to kink and consensual non-monogamy. Since 2016, she has taught and supervised master's- and Ph.D.-level learners as a full-time core faculty member in CACREP-accredited counseling programs. Dr. Muzacz's areas of academic specialization are clinical mental health counseling and online/hybrid course development. She teaches, mentors, advises, and advocates with non-traditional, graduate-level learners at a large public university in the Pacific Northwest. She has been the Chief Operating Officer and co-Clinical Director of Revolution Consulting, LLC, since its inception in 2022.
As someone who holds social privilege in multiple areas including racial identity, Dr. Muzacz is committed to equitable access to counseling, education, licensure supervision, and counseling leadership for members of racial and ethnic groups that are marginalized in the land now called the United States. She is currently serving as a Chapter Faculty Advisor for Omega Sigma Upsilon (2023-present) and the President of the Oregon Association of Counselor Educators and Supervisors (OACES; 2024-present). Her most important life roles are mom to a thriving Scout, dancer, and brown belt in taekwondo and spouse to a birder on the autism spectrum. She lives in Salem, Oregon.