Therapist Directory Staff | Being Seen Therapist Directory

Founded in 2012, and launched in the spring of 2013, Open Path Psychotherapy Collective provides people in need with access to transformative and affordable mental and holistic health care. We envision a just, compassionate world where all people can easily access the care they need to thrive. In partnership with licensed mental health clinicians in private practice throughout the fifty states and Canada, Open Path provides middle and lower-income level clients with access to affordable mental health care.

Since our founding, Open Path has matched more than 140,000 clients across the country to affordable psychotherapeutic care. Additionally, Open Path has enrolled more than 70,000 students in our online wellness education program.

As the newest offering of Open Path, Being Seen advances the social mission of the organization by introducing our network of community-minded professionals to the full range of help-seeking clients around the country.

Meet our team

Paul Fugelsang, LPCFounder, Executive Director

Paul has worked in the mental health field since 1996 with a focus on projects committed to improving mental health services for lower income individuals and families. Before beginning his own private psychotherapy practice, he spent five years as counselor and supervisor at Esperanza, NY & the Vera Institute of Justice, a community-based agency designed to implement procedural reform throughout the juvenile justice system in New York City. Paul counts among his interests yoga, the study of plant medicine, and long baseball catches with his son in the park. A graduate of Naropa University’s Contemplative Psychotherapy program, Paul operates Open Path Psychotherapy Collective and maintains a private practice in Asheville, NC. Contact Paul via email.

Lisa IsenhartDeputy Director

As Deputy Director, Lisa Isenhart is responsible for ensuring the smooth daily operation of Open Path’s affordable psychotherapy and mental health education programming. She received her BA in International Studies from Kenyon College, and earned her MA in Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis. After researching social movements and the politics of change during her graduate studies, Lisa decided to actively participate in bringing about a more just and healthier society through work in the field of nonprofit advocacy. She brings nearly ten years of nonprofit experience to her role with Open Path, and is excited to expand Open Path’s programs to reach a greater number of people in need each year.

Melanie WagnerProgram Coordinator

Melanie comes to Open Path with a decade of experience working in education and social services. She holds a B.S. in Adolescent to Young Adult Education from Bowling Green State University and has served as a teacher, tutor, and case manager. She is also active in social justice work in Chicago, particularly around youth incarceration. Her work is driven by her investment in building toward a world where individuals and communities have the resources they need to thrive, and she is excited to help connect people to affordable therapy through Open Path.

Samantha Lopez CarrizalesProgram Associate

Samantha earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Medical Anthropology from Princeton University. She is passionate about advocacy, particularly around immigration issues, and ensuring that marginalized communities receive care, justice, and the resources they need to feel empowered. Samantha is excited to join Open Path and provide support to people seeking accessible mental health services.

Board of Directors

Amy Durso

Amy Durso is an educator and musician. Her specialty areas include working with children with severe emotional and learning disorders and positive behavior management program design and implementation. She spent the first 12 years of her career working at the Wright School, a pioneering treatment program that focuses on the child’s family and community system. Amy also is a musician for heart2heart, a nonprofit that services communities and individuals during the dying time. Through heart2heart, she contributes her music and support to a wide variety of spiritual rituals, workshops and bodywork/healing sessions.

Myleik Teele

Myleik Teele is the founder and Chief Experience Officer of curlBOX, the first monthly subscription service for naturally curly hair. Juggernaut brands such as L’Oreal, Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Target, Walmart, and have all partnered with Myleik to leverage her keen ability to identify and market popular trends to the masses. She hosts the #MyTaughtYou podcast, and has a devoted listenership of women from all walks of life who appreciate her honest, refreshing, and often no-nonsense advice on how to live life on your own terms.

Paul Bialek

Paul Bialek is a psychotherapist in private practice in Boulder Colorado. He works with individuals, couples and groups. Prior to moving to Boulder, he ran a non-profit mentoring program for teens in rural Colorado. He came to Boulder to study psychotherapy at Naropa University, and then spent ten years as core faculty in Naropa University’s Contemplative Psychotherapy program.

Patricia Calastro Ortiz, LCSW

Trish has spent the last 20 years of her career at Esperanza, NY Inc., a program that works to reduce reliance on out of home placement, jail, and prison for NYC’s justice involved young people- disproportionately children of color from communities highly impacted by poverty, violence, and resource inequity. At Esperanza, Trish has collaborated with justice system stakeholders throughout two decades of structural reform to provide an approach to reducing the use of placement, detention and prison that is responsive to critical issues like racial equity and social justice, trauma and mental health. As a therapist specializing in adolescent and family work, with a particular focus on trauma and attachment disruption, Trish has supervised and trained staff to provide comprehensive services including intensive therapy, and case and crisis management. Trish was previously Clinical Supervisor of Alternative Sentencing programs at the Kings County District Attorney’s Office. She also served as a court advocate for CAMBA’s Choices for Youth, an alternative sentencing program for juveniles. Trish also has experience with adolescents and families in other settings, including in an alternative high school and a residential foster care facility.