Right Turn’s outreach team has extensive professional experience working with people suffering with mental health issues and addiction to drugs or alcohol, and each is an amateur or semi-professional artist in one of many diverse areas of creative expression.

CEO & Founder
Woody Giessmann, LADC-I, CADAC

Clinical Director
Gabrielle (Abby) Dean, LICSW, MPH

Medical Director
Mark Albanese, MD

Addiction Specialist
Willy Drinkwater, LADC-I, CADAC II

Psychotherapist and Addiction Specialist
Susan Shaw, LICSW, LADC-I

Addiction Specialist
Felix Treitler, LICSW

Individual & Marriage Counseling
Elena Pellegrino, LMHC

Addiction Specialist
Jerry Cotter, CADAC, NCAC-II, LPN

Psychiatrists
Hisla Bates, MD
Mark Albanese, MD

Board of Directors
Woody Giessmann, President
Tim O'Connor, Treasurer
Ami Malia, Clerk
Marjie Alonso
Attorney Matthew Berlin
Dorothy Dwyer
George Grey
Simon Kirke
Steve Sweeney