New Paths Forward, LLC
Premier Psychiatric and Mental Health Treatment
The Team
Joseph Albertario
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Chief Executive Officer
Joseph started New Paths Forward in 2015 as a mental health therapist. After years of providing counseling for patients and with growing concern over the lack of options for his clients to be prescribed medication, he decided to go back to school to learn psychiatric medicine at Yale. He has reestablished New Paths Forward as a place to provide affordable, compassionate, holistic, and accessible care to individuals and families. He prescribes psychiatric medicine crafted to your individual needs, while providing therapy involved in every

Riley Mello
LCSW
Clinical Therapist
Riley specializes in trauma therapy, specifically EMDR for reprocessing traumatic thoughts and feelings. He also specializes in working with children and with parents navigating the emotional challenges that can arise through their parenting journeys. Therapy with Riley is highly collaborative and paced depending on your individual needs. Riley works to break generational cycles of difficulties, manage anxiety, or find relief from emotional numbness or reactivity. He focuses on healing, coping, and creating safe space.
Natalia Zabatta
Chief Operating Officer
Natalia offers a wealth of administrative and leadership experience, having expertly directed administrations and organized companies. She brings enhanced structure, corporate compliance, and foundational support to New Paths Forward to ensure excellent patient outcomes behind the scenes of therapy.
Some Issues We Treat:
Depression
Excessive hopelessness and guilt, sadness, sleeping too much or too little, irritability, lack of pleasure in pleasurable things, feelings of worthlessness and low motivation.
Attention Deficit Hyper Activity
Anxiety
Excessive worry about the future, excessive thinking about the past, fearing the worst case scenario, feelings of dread, being frequently overwhelmed, crying often, fearing something bad will happen.
Bipolar Disorder
Episodes of mania or hypomania and episodes of depression
Stress
Natural reactions to challenging or triggering events that become hard to manage if happening too often
Trauma
A response to an upsetting event that can cause bodily and psychological distress
Why Us
At New Paths Forward, our mission is to provide compassionate, holistic, and accessible care to individuals and families. We believe everyone deserves the opportunity to thrive, regardless of financial barriers.
Our approach focuses on the mind, body, and spirit, ensuring care that addresses the whole person. We offer a safe and inclusive environment for everyone, to empower our clients to heal, grow, and achieve lasting well-being.
Through affordable services and personalized care, we are dedicated to making mental health support a reality for all, because we know that healthier minds create stronger communities.