Dino Bedinelli, MSW, LCSW, CADC
Executive Director
Dino Bedinelli
Compass Recovery’s Executive Director Dino Bedinelli, MSW, LCSW, CADC is a veteran who has over 10 years of experience in the field. Dino started as a CADC level counselor after completing the ACE program at Westfield University. Dino then received his BS, and MSW, from Springfield College and started practicing as a masters-level clinician. Dino has over five years of administration experience and has been the director of multiple programs.
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Alyssa Desroches
Compass Recovery’s Clinical Supervisor Alyssa Desroches, MSW, LICSW is a clinical therapist who has 10 years of experience in the field. Alyssa started her career as an outreach clinician, meeting a wide variety of clients in their homes and communities, after completing the MSW program at Boston College. Alyssa then found her passion working with adults with substance use disorders in the setting of outpatient methadone programming within a larger behavioral health continuum. Alyssa has over four years of administrative experience. In addition to specializing in working with individuals with substance use disorders, she also specializes in leadership development, clinical supervision, trauma-informed care, and relationship/family counseling.
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Alyssa Desroches, MSW, LICSW
Clinical Supervisor
Mark Schwaber
Compass Recovery’s Counselor/Group Facilitator Mark Schwaber has eight years of experience in the field as an administrator and clinical leader. Mark started his career as a Recovery Specialist, working directly with people from all walks of life through ATS, CSS, and Halfway House facilities. Mark was quickly promoted to Addiction Counselor and an Administrative Leader with a team of up to ten employees. Mark has also been a co-creator of curriculums for three recovery programs. Mark also brings an experiential element to the recovery process as a Grammy-nominated, lifelong musician that has traveled to over 20 countries to perform live. Mark has worked as a studio musician since the late ’90s. Mark is also a published author and editorialist who can be found in such periodicals as Rolling Stone and The Boston Globe. Mark brings specific attention to the importance of music, writing, and art in the recovery process as a means of self-preservation and re-empowerment. He is also a public advocate for addicts in recovery, as a person who is open about their own journey in recovery, Mark has worked with mayoral offices and city councils in many localized cities to destigmatize and educate the public on the disease of addiction.
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Mark Schwaber
Group Facilitator
Ada Langford
With over 20 years of professional and personal experience, interest, and knowledge within the Holistic Wellness Model for Whole Being Health Care and The Healing Arts, Ada Langford has built a unique skill set through a more comprehensive lens for Addiction Recovery and Relapse Prevention. From her time as a Licensed Skin Therapist to her time as a buyer for the naturopathic treatments at Whole Foods; and her recent experience as a Recovery Specialist and Experiential Coordinator at an ATS/CSS, Ada has always felt her most complete when she is working to help others. Ada is the creator of a very successful experiential art program called ‘Accidental Art’ that she taught to thousands of addicts in a previous program. She is currently a licensed yoga instructor with over 300 registered hours with the Soma Yoga Institute and has offered trauma-informed classes for hundreds of addicts in recovery at the CSS level of care. Ada is also a certificate holder and instructor of the Y12SR program (integrating the spiritual principles of the 12 Step program with wisdom, philosophy, and practices of Yoga) which she gratefully brings to treatment for the very first time at Compass Recovery. One word that Ada uses to describe the many aspects of that yoga is “relationship”. It’s about building, creating, healing, reclaiming, reworking, reevaluating, reconnecting, rediscovering relationships. Relationship to yourself, the relationship you have with others, and your relationship to the world around you. A sense of union and harmony. Like Yoga, a person’s recovery path is a journey where the invitation is to explore all aspects of themselves. A chance to uncover and heal areas of separation and disconnection. In this way, people have a better chance at examining the intricate connections that make up their whole being and where the root of separation started. Addressing the whole person, in mind/body/spirit, can bring out the happiest, healthiest wholesome most authentic version of themselves.
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Ada Langford
Yoga & Meditation Instructor