College of Education

Arien's research interests include addiction counseling, sexuality, including attraction, behavior and identity, and health disparities, multicultural counseling with a focus on older adults and LGB and T/GNC adolescents/adults, supervision.

Publications:

• Expressions of Queer Intimacy: BDSM and Kink as Means of Self-Actualization

• A humanist’s journey through the existential crises of academic motherhood