About Us

Learn evidence-based skills of self-awareness, self-care, and self-expression that will enable you to create a comprehensive, individualized program that will help you be balanced and resilient as you meet life's challenges.  

Vito Alberga, LCSW, ACSW, ACCHT, BCD, EMDR     

As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker 

Vito has been working in the mental health field for over 28 years.  He is an Advanced Certified Heart-Centered Hypnotherapist, an EMDRIA certified EMDR therapist, and an EMDRIA Approved Consultant. He has also taught as an Adjunct Professor at National-Louis University where he taught workshops on treating trauma and shock. He is the Founder and Director for The Center For New Pathways Integrative Wellness Center, a leading wellness center that offers psychotherapy, coaching, acupuncture, chiropractic, energy work, and massage services. He has full time private practice where he specializes in working with adults, children, and adolescents. 

We are a group of experienced wellness professionals with shared values and a common goal of  

helping children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families feel strong, empowered, healthy, and peaceful. 

Jon holds a Master’s degree in Counseling and is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor as well as a Certified Domestic Violence Professional and a Partner Abuse Intervention Professional. Jon has also been trained in EMDR for trauma related issues and uses a variety of techniques including CBT, DBT and Person-Centered Therapy. Jon’s approach is gentle, insightful, informative and this allows clients to feel at ease and participate fully in the therapeutic process.  

Jon’s background is truly diverse as he has served as a Men’s Group leader, Community Educator for adolescents, Residential Therapist at a teen group home setting, Rehab Center Counselor and as a private practice counselor. Jon works with individuals, couples, marital partners, groups, adolescents, men’s issues and court ordered clientele.  

For more than 10 years Joyce has supported individuals with a broad range of issues in community mental health, residential, and IOP settings. She considers it a privilege to join you on this journey of self-discovery and looks forward to helping you uncover barriers and identify strengths that will allow you to meet your desired personal and professional goals. Joyce strives to create a safe space that will allow you to share your experience with unconditional positive regard. Joyce has a specialty in addictions and co-occurring disorders. She utilizes DBT, motivational interviewing, and trauma informed care in a client-centered, strengths based approach. Joyce will join you where you are and support you in the process of change. She loves using EMDR and Polyvagal Theory to help with trauma issues.

Joyce believes you are doing the best you can and have the ability to face your challenges successfully. She believes success is possible and looks forward to  working together. Your willingness and practice will improve your effectiveness and allow you to embrace your strengths and respond to life’s challenges more skillfully and with more confidence.

Laura is a State of Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with over 20 years of experience within the mental health community.

She specializes in working with individuals, families and provides group therapy. Ages treated include pre/teens, adolescents, high functioning spectrum, LGBTQ population and adults promoting optimum mind, body and positive emotional health. 

Specific strengths include:

• Anger Management
• Anxiety Disorders
• Phobias
• PTSD
• ADHD / ADD, and 
• Emotional Dysregulation 

Laura specializes in Cognitive Behavioral therapy, Exposure Therapy, Mindfulness, Acceptance Commitment Therapy and EMDR certified through EMDR Consulting Chicago (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) which is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences. 

Molly’s approach to couples and family therapy is based on her belief that every individual, couple, and family is unique. Taking this into consideration, Molly uses multiple concepts, strategies, and interventions from many different theoretical frameworks in order to guide families to their goals with the treatment that works best for them. To do this, it is necessary to create a safe and collaborative space for her clients and to build a strong alliance with each member involved. As a therapist, Molly is nonjudgmental, empathetic, goal-oriented, direct, and enjoys using humor throughout therapy when appropriate.

Molly’s passion is guiding couples, families, and individuals to better understand their own strengths and growing edges and how that influences their dynamic with their partners, friends, and family members. 

With a background in pastoral counseling and youth mental health, Tommy has a gift for putting young people at ease. Through deep listening and connection, he allows clients to be who they are while working to become the person they believe they can be.

Tommy works primarily with boys and young men, ages 10 to early 20s—a group that often resists going into therapy. He responds by building a trusting and authentic relationship, helping clients navigate their healing within a mutually respectful space. 

Tommy’s specialties include ADD/ADHD, compulsive technology use, anxiety, depression, academic pressures, sports performance, substance abuse, grief, and trauma. He began as a mental health counselor for young adults at Replogle Center for Wellbeing & Counseling, and later worked at Misericordia Home as a fitness instructor and ministry coordinator for adults with developmental disabilities.

Today, he helps young men shift from hurt and anger to hope and understanding. By witnessing their inner world and integrating a more life-affirming narrative in their story, Tommy helps his clients better themselves, their families, and their communities.

Betsy is a holistic nurse and mind-body specialist with over 15 years of experience in mind-body medicine. She helps individuals find inner peace and strength by cultivating self-awareness through mindfulness training and yoga therapy.

Betsy’s approach centers on helping clients harness their own inner resources for healing. With a deep focus on self-care, she teaches tools and practices that promote health and wellbeing. Her clinical experience spans a broad range of conditions, from chronic or terminal illness to anxiety, depression, and PTSD.

Betsy holds a master’s degree in Mind-Body Medicine from Saybrook University and a nursing degree from Loyola University. She became a certified yoga therapist at Integrative Yoga Therapy and Parayoga and an accredited teacher of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction at the UMass Center for Mindfulness in Healthcare and Society.

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Our Yoga & Mindfulness offerings are led by Betsy Murphy, a Certified Yoga Therapist and Mindfulness Meditation Practitioner skilled in providing integrative pathways of mind-body medicine.

You are welcome to join Betsy’s group yoga classes or schedule one-on-one mindfulness training with her. Kindly contact us for more information.

Odette helps you experience the many facets of yoga in a caring and comforting environment. We will learn the fundamentals of yoga through postures and focusing on breathwork for relaxation. Healing ourselves from the busy world and discovering the many benefits yoga can offer your body. Odette is excited to help and support you in finding your mind and body connection.  Together we will explore yoga, come join her!    

Odette’s years of practicing yoga has provided her healing through grief, stress and injuries. Odette participates in other workouts and yoga that has assisted her with mental focus and physical strength, so that she can enjoy and challenge herself in those activities.  In her personal life, the relaxation through breathwork allows Odette to find balance and inner peace. 

Odette is a RYT 200 (Registered Yoga Teacher) with Yoga Alliance. After nearly a decade of practicing yoga, she embarked on completing her 200-hour training through an accredited school in the Northwest Suburbs meeting the Yoga Alliance Standards.

Rob knows how it feels to operate in a high demand, high-intensity work environment while trying to stay connected with family and friends. He struggled with achy joints and stiff muscles, anxiety and panic, disconnection from his wife and family, high-blood pressure, and a  misalignment between what work and society wanted him to be, and who he truly was on the inside.

He came to a conclusion: as men, we’re conditioned to go to work, earn a livable income, and climb the corporate ladder. We live so hard in someone else’s dream that we lack a deep and meaningful sense of our own purpose. So Rob set out on a mission to take his power back. In his journey, he was able to:

● Manage his anxiety and eliminate instances of panic

● Develop a relationship with his monkey-mind

● Cultivate a body that was fluid, strong, powerful, and nimble

● Find energy, drive, calm, and peace within himself instead of reaching for food and substances outside himself

● Connect deeply and meaningfully with real people 

● Connect to his true love and purpose in life.

People noticed, and started asking:

● Rob, can you teach me to meditate?

● What is that breath work you’re doing?

● What do you do for stress?

● Why do you sit in the snow?

● Why do you shake and tap on your body like that?

● I want to try yoga, but the classes and female instructors don’t resonate with me...

So, Rob set out to teach the very tools that have empowered him to live a life of peace, presence, purpose, power, and connection. 

Teri graduated from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, Chicago, IL with her Masters of Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine, acupuncture, and herbology. In 2005, she earned her degree in massage therapy from American Institute of Alternative Medicine – Columbus, Ohio. She specializes in Tui Na (Chinese Medical Massage that uses acupressure).

Teri is licensed by the state of Illinois in acupuncture (L.Ac.), and is board certified through the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM) as a Diplomate in Acupuncture.

She has been practicing energy medicine since 2011 in an effort to better understand her gifts and self-healing. Her journey started with studying the Akashic Records with Christina Cross. She became Reiki Master certified for the Usui Shiki Ryoho lineage in 2013, and the Usui Reiki Ryoho lineage in 2017 (as taught by Frans Stiene.) She currently teaches only the Usui Reiki Ryoho lineage. Teri is trained in Access Consciousness Bars and various other energy healing modalities.

Tangee is the owner and founder of Holistic Mental Health Wellness Inc., which originated long before it was founded in 2015. Tangee started in the field of psychiatry in 2005, as a floor nurse at an urban hospital in Chicago. There, she saw how the deprivation of social, physical, mental, spiritual nurturing, and love from others and towards ourselves can impact one's psyche. 

As Tangee went through her own healing journey, she awakened to this inner knowing that challenges were indeed opportunities which ultimately lead us to align with our higher power. As Tangee started practicing as an APN, after graduating from the University of Illinois at Chicago, she soon found that though there is a place for medication in the treatment of psychiatric illnesses, in particular; one cannot ignore that there are holistic options that don't only treat the symptoms but can heal at the core of the problem.

Healing Arts Practitioner focusing on personal and spiritual growth, archetypal tarot readings, energetic mind-body connection, energy balancing and quantum physics approach. As a Teacher, offering classes in metaphysics, divination, developing intuitive abilities, meditation, clearing negative memories and energies, tarot, as well as teaching Life Activation: Spiritual Evolution, a year long program, at Infinity Foundation, Highland Park, IL.

Individual sessions, classes and workshops are designed to support people in their personal and spiritual development, allowing them to live a more loving, conscious and purposeful life.

Healing Touch Practitioner, Graduate of Barbara Brennan School of Healing, Studied with Master Yu Cheng Huang, Shaolin Master for 3 years, Matrix Energetic Practitioner, Shamanic Work with Q'ero Elders, Sufi School for 3 years, The Art of Pastoral Visitation through Unity Church, Minister Director through Universal Brotherhood., and for 11 years, a Guide to the healing center of John of God in Brazil.

To learn more about integrating these services into your complete mind-body wellness program, or to book an appointment with any of our associate practitioners, please reach out to us via our contact page. 

Allie is currently working toward her Master’s in Social Work at Aurora University and is in her first year. She has her Bachelor’s in French and Global Studies from North Central College. Allie is in the midst of a career change, as she spent the past 5 years working as a project manager in the tech industry. She has always had a passion for helping people and decided social work would be a better fit for her goals and passions. She is excited to embark on her clinical experience with The Center for New Pathways and work with like-minded professionals who approach mental health holistically.   

As life inevitably ebbs and flows, Natalie strives to create a safe space for individuals to grow from their struggles and move forward to being where they want to be in life. Natalie’s approach is warm, supportive, and disarming. She is passionate about utilizing an integrative and individualized wellness approach that includes both traditional and alternative therapies to help individuals heal, energize, and become aware of their inner strengths. She believes that counseling should place an emphasis on authentically embracing one’s whole self while seeking both peace and personal growth.