Lauren Sorrentino

Lauren Sorrentino is a co-founder of The Archangel Centers. Her focus is the part of recovery that is easy to overlook: the family. Addiction reaches everyone in a household, and Lauren built her work around the idea that families heal best when they heal together.

She leads family programming and alumni support across The Archangel Centers. That means helping families understand what addiction is and is not, set healthy boundaries without guilt, and stay meaningfully involved as a loved one moves through outpatient treatment and into long-term recovery. She also helps keep alumni connected after a program ends, because the months after treatment are when steady support matters most.

Lauren brings a lived-experience perspective to that work. She understands what it asks of a family to support someone through recovery, and she designs the family side of The Archangel Centers to be practical, compassionate, and honest.

As a partner in both life and the mission, Lauren stands beside Mike at the center of the operation, and she keeps the human side of the work front and center. Families who reach out are often frightened, exhausted, and unsure of what to ask. Lauren's job is to make that first contact feel less overwhelming, to explain what outpatient treatment looks like in plain terms, and to remind families that they are allowed to take care of themselves while they support someone they love.

A lot of her work is about correcting the quiet myths that build up around addiction inside a home. Families often blame themselves, or believe that helping means controlling, or assume that one relapse erases all progress. Lauren helps them replace those beliefs with healthier ones: that recovery is a process, that boundaries are a form of love, and that staying connected matters more than getting everything right. When families understand the illness, they stop fighting each other and start pulling in the same direction, which gives the person in treatment a steadier foundation to stand on.

Lauren also pays close attention to what happens after a program ends, when the structure of treatment falls away and old routines come knocking. She helps build alumni support that keeps people connected to one another and to the centers, so the work does not stop at the door. Across both locations, in Tinton Falls, New Jersey and the expansion to Charlotte, North Carolina, her goal is the same: to make sure no one, the person in recovery or the family around them, has to figure it out alone.

• Co-founded The Archangel Centers
• Leads family programming and education
• Builds alumni support that continues after a program ends
• Brings a family-centered, lived-experience perspective
• Helps families set healthy boundaries and stay involved without guilt
• Keeps the human side of the centers front and center across both locations