About Us - Built by people who have been there

Mike Sorrentino is a Nationally Certified Motivational Interventionist (NCMI), co-founder of Archangel Centers, and a person in long-term recovery from addiction since December 2015. He is nearly 10 years sober.

Most people know him from 6 seasons on MTV's Jersey Shore. What the cameras did not always show was the battle happening off-screen. By the time Mike entered treatment, he had hit a wall that neither money nor fame could fix. He got honest, got help, and got sober.

He earned his NCMI certification. He wrote a memoir about recovery, "Reality Check: Making the Best of the Situation" (2023). He built an audience of 3 million on Instagram and used that platform to actually say something: that recovery is real and does not require a celebrity's resources to deserve.

Lauren Sorrentino is a Nationally Certified Motivational Interventionist and co-founder of Archangel Centers. She co-built this center because she knows what addiction does to a family, because she watched it up close, and she chose to do something about it.

Lauren is active in community engagement and recovery support programming. Her NCMI certification reflects the same commitment to the clinical dimension of recovery that drives Mike's involvement. She is not a figurehead. She shows up.

Samantha Hewett is CEO of Archangel Centers, holding dual certifications as a Certified Recovery Residence Administrator (CRRA) and Nationally Certified Motivational Interventionist (NCMI). She was present at the center's launch in September 2024 and led execution of the grand opening in November 2025.

Her CRRA credential reflects specific expertise in recovery housing operations, making her the right person to oversee the Way House alongside Archangel's outpatient programming. She oversees the facility's operations, clinical compliance, and clinical staff.

Dr. Joseph Milisitz is the Chief Clinical Officer of Archangel Centers with over 39 years of clinical experience in mental health and addiction treatment. He serves as the senior clinical authority for the center's treatment protocols, evidence-based programming, and clinical compliance.

Dr. Milisitz brings academic and clinical depth to a center built on lived experience. The combination matters: recovery ambassadors who have been through addiction and a clinical officer who has spent four decades treating it.

Trevor Eyerkuss is Program Director at Archangel Centers and, by every account from patients who have been through the program, the person you meet when you walk in. He co-created the programming at Archangel alongside Mike Sorrentino.

Before this, he served as Associate Director of Operations at Veritas Recovery. He holds a BS from Hofstra University. What his resume does not say: Trevor spent over a decade in his own addiction before finding recovery. He built his career from the other side of the intake desk. When patients say he understands what they are going through, they are not wrong.

Sydney Pentland leads community engagement at Archangel Centers and is the person many patients and visitors meet first. She holds a Soma Breathwork certification (ACCPH/CPD accredited) and brings a background in nonprofit program management, including roles with the NJ Department of Education, Middlesex County Family Justice Center, and United Way Family Success Centers.

Sydney also runs Vital Breathwork LLC and brings breathwork wellness programming to community engagement at the center.