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Cortland Mathers-Suter, MSSA
CEO
Cortland Mathers-Suter entered the addiction treatment field through personal experience with addiction and recovery. His path moved from peer-level work to clinical education to organizational leadership. He holds a BA in Education and a dual Master’s in Clinical Social Work and Social Policy from Case Western Reserve University.
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Before pursuing graduate work, Cortland served as a programming coordinator at the Tree House Learning Community while completing his undergraduate degree, and later developed an evidence-based curriculum for an addiction treatment organization in Arizona. Clinical practice in SUD and mental health followed, but a conviction that people in recovery needed better systems led him toward organizational work rather than direct practice.
In 2015, he founded AspenRidge Recovery, a person-centered, co-occurring treatment program now operating across five Colorado locations: Denver, Lakewood, Thornton, Fort Collins, and Colorado Springs. AspenRidge holds Joint Commission accreditation and Colorado state licensure, and offers Outpatient Detox, PHP, IOP, and OP levels of care across both a SUD-primary and a mental health treatment track, with a remote treatment option available statewide.
In 2020, he co-developed Colorado Medication Assisted Recovery (CMAR) alongside Michael Damioli, LCSW, C-SAT. CMAR offered MAT-integrated PHP, IOP, and OP programming with an on-site MAT department providing addiction medicine, psychiatry, and medication management, and carried CARF accreditation and state licensure. In February 2025, Cortland led the merger of CMAR and AspenRidge, and now serves as CEO of the combined organization.
Topics
- Founding and scaling behavioral health organizations in Colorado
- Program development across the continuum of care (Detox, PHP, IOP, OP)
- Co-occurring SUD and mental health treatment models
- Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) and clinical integration
- The ARR/CMAR merger and consolidation in behavioral health
- Personal experience with addiction and recovery
- Workforce, access, and systemic barriers to addiction treatment in Colorado
Michael Damioli, MSW, CSAT
COO & Chief Clinical Officer
Michael Damioli brings clinical depth and operational leadership to AspenRidge’s multi-location treatment network. He holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Denver (2017), a Family Therapy certificate from the Denver Family Institute (2018), and advanced certification as a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT).
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His clinical background spans inpatient, outpatient, detox, and psychiatric hospital settings. He specializes in working with families and couples affected by substance use, and with men navigating compulsive sexual behaviors and intimacy-related concerns. His therapeutic lens is grounded in family systems theory (Bowen and structural models) with a humanistic, Rogerian approach. In addition to his current executive role, Damioli previously served as clinical director of Colorado Medication Assisted Recovery prior to the organization’s merger with AspenRidge in 2025.
Topics
- Substance use and its impact on families and intimate relationships
- Compulsive sexual behavior and sex addiction (CSAT perspective)
- Family systems approaches to addiction treatment
- Men’s mental health and addiction
- Outpatient treatment models and clinical operations
- MAT integration into outpatient behavioral health programs
- Co-occurring disorders in addiction treatment
Clinical Staff
Collectively, our therapists have over 100 years of experience treating addiction, mental health and trauma. Our experts can discuss:
- Addiction treatment techniques
- Mental health and trauma treatment techniques
- General therapy topics
- Issues facing the recovery community
- Personal stories of recovery
- Addiction’s family impact
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