Victoria Ariens, LPC, CSAC, ICS, NCC
Victoria has been in the helping profession since 2004 and earned her master’s degree from the University in Wisconsin-Whitewater in Community Counseling. Victoria is a dual licensed clinician, utilizing a variety of therapeutic modalities for the treatment of mental health, trauma, and substance abuse disorders. Through the years, Victoria has worked in several areas of mental health treatment including intensive outpatient, community based outreach, residential treatment, individual therapy, and Marital/Family counseling services.
Victoria has been part of the Windrose Recovery team since 2016, in her role as a Primary Therapist, working in collaboration with the clinical team providing holistically focused client care, family therapy, and treatment strategies. Additionally, Victoria facilitates clinical supervision for the Associate Therapists and clinical coaches in guiding them to conceptualize and execute client treatment planning and services. Victoria employs a framework based heavily in attachment theory, aspects of Internal Family systems with an emphasis on building the awareness of cognitive-emotional integration towards a path of healing. Victoria is also trained in EMDR and values alternative somatic methods to move through areas of distress, towards establishing lasting relief.
Victoria strives to cultivate a close working relationship with her clients to create an open and safe environment where thoughts and feelings can be shared without fear of judgment.