Sandra Lee Mistretta, CATC IV, LMFT, is the Chief Clinical Officer at Casa Serena in Santa Barbara, California, where she leads clinical services for one of California’s longest-standing nonprofit treatment programs for women with substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders. Over the past 16 years, she has worked directly with women in recovery and their families while developing and overseeing residential, detoxification, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, and family programming.