Lauren Sorrentino
Founder of The Archangel Centers and the architect of the program's family programming track, built so the whole family gets care, not just the client.
Lauren Sorrentino is the co-founder of The Archangel Centers and the architect of the family side of the program, the part most treatment programs treat as optional. At Archangel, it isn't.
She leads family programming across both clinic locations: scheduled family therapy, the weekly family support group, alumni family engagement, and ongoing communication with loved ones under signed release. Recovery is a family event at Archangel, the program is built that way because Lauren built it that way.
She co-founded the program with her husband Mike Sorrentino, the founder of The Archangel Centers, and together they are raising three children between Tinton Falls and Charlotte.
- Family-firstprogram design
- 2 locationsNJ + NC
- Weeklyfamily support group
The part most programs skip
Standard outpatient treatment does the clinical work for the client and treats family involvement as a courtesy, a phone call here, a discharge meeting there. Lauren refused to build the program that way.
At The Archangel Centers, family work runs in parallel with individual treatment from the first week of admission. Family members are connected to their loved one's primary therapist under signed release, and the family programming team, under Lauren's leadership, maintains its own track of family therapy, education, and group support.
- Scheduled family therapy with the client's licensed primary therapist
- Weekly family support group across both Tinton Falls + Charlotte locations
- Ongoing communication with loved ones under signed release
- Alumni family engagement after acute treatment ends
“Addiction is a family disease. The whole family deserves a program that treats it that way, not a phone call once a month.”
One program, two states
Lauren oversees family programming at both Archangel locations, the Tinton Falls, New Jersey clinic and the Charlotte, North Carolina clinic. The structure is the same in both places: same family therapy cadence, same support group, same standards of communication.
Families travel the same recovery journey whether their loved one is in treatment in NJ or NC. That consistency, across geography, across staff, across language, is the part of family programming families notice most.
The family doesn't graduate
When acute treatment ends, the work doesn't. Lauren's alumni engagement track keeps families connected to Archangel, through alumni programming, family events, and ongoing access to the family support group long after a loved one steps down from formal treatment.
Long-term recovery is largely about staying connected to the recovery community, and at Archangel the family is part of that community too.
Co-Founder, co-parent, partner
Lauren is married to founder Mike Sorrentino. They are parents to three children, Romeo, Mia, and Luna, and they built The Archangel Centers the way they wished a program had been built around them.
The Sorrentinos' lived experience of long-term recovery as a couple and as a family is part of why the family side of the program exists at the depth it does.
Moments from the program
