The clinicians who
carry the weight.
The Atlas Method is held not by a brand, but by people. These are the licensed clinicians who run the founding anchors and steward the framework across them.
Dr. Caitlyn McClure
Vice President of Clinical Services, Northern Illinois Recovery CenterDr. McClure leads the clinical team at NIRC, where her work centers on trauma-informed addiction care, family systems, and the integration of measurement-based practice into a residential setting. She holds a Doctorate of Social Work and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Illinois.
Caitlyn brought the Atlas Method to NIRC’s residential and outpatient programs in 2025, and now oversees its day-to-day deployment across detox, residential, PHP, and the two IOP tracks. She supervises clinical onboarding, weekly case conferences, and the cohort review meetings that the Arc dashboard now structures.
Her clinical philosophy is grounded in the idea that the body keeps the story — and that real recovery has to integrate body, mind, identity, and community on the same timeline.
Derek Bylsma
Executive Director, Millennium Counseling CenterDerek directs Millennium’s downtown Chicago practice — an outpatient counseling group specializing in complex behavioral health: process and substance addictions, sex and intimacy concerns, gender and identity work, and the co-occurring presentations that don’t fit a short-form rehab.
A Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, Derek brings two decades of group, individual, and couples practice to the Atlas continuum. Under his direction Millennium adopted the Atlas Method in 2025 as its long-form continuing-care framework, anchoring the Arc inside an outpatient context that historically lacked one.
Derek’s clinical interests sit at the intersection of attachment, identity, and the courage to stay in difficult conversations long enough to be changed by them.
Oren Matteson
Senior Clinician, Millennium Counseling CenterOren is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a Master’s in Clinical Psychology, with a focus on the assessment, treatment, and integration of complex compulsive sexual behaviors within broader recovery.
At Millennium, Oren runs intensive individual and group work for clients carrying process addictions alongside trauma, partner-betrayal injury, and attachment wounds. His role in the Atlas continuum is to specialize the Method for clients whose recovery has to address both substance and behavior — a population the field has historically segmented.
Oren teaches, supervises, and contributes to the open-source Arch initiative, where his module work on shame, secrecy, and disclosure has been incorporated into the framework’s third season.