Meet Our LGBTQ+ Recovery Team
Joey Bachrach
JOEY'S BIO
Joey Bachrach is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rainbow Hill Recovery, an LGBTQ-affirming mental health and substance use treatment center based in Los Angeles. With a deep commitment to accessibility, dignity, and culturally competent care, Joey leads Rainbow Hill Recovery with the belief that healing is most effective when people are fully seen, affirmed, and supported for who they are.
As someone in long-term recovery himself, Joey brings both professional leadership and lived experience to his work. His personal journey informs his passion for creating safe, inclusive spaces where LGBTQ+ individuals can heal without shame, fear, or compromise. Alongside his husband and co-founder, Andrew Fox, Joey helped launch Rainbow Hill with the mission of making high-quality treatment more accessible, affordable, and community-centered.
In his role as CEO, Joey oversees organizational strategy, program development, partnerships, and community outreach. He is deeply involved in building systems that balance clinical excellence with compassion, ensuring Rainbow Hill Recovery remains a trusted, ethical, and affirming provider for clients, families, and referral partners alike.
Joey is also a strong advocate for LGBTQ+ mental health equity and frequently collaborates with local organizations, insurers, and civic partners to expand access to care. Through his leadership, Rainbow Hill Recovery continues to grow as a place where recovery is not only possible, but empowering — proving that healing and authenticity can coexist.
Andrew Fox
ANDREW'S BIO
With over a decade of experience in the field of addiction recovery, Andrew is passionate about helping individuals reclaim their lives and find lasting healing. As the Co-founder and Director of Rainbow Hill Recovery, he has dedicated his career to creating a nurturing and supportive environment for those on their journey to recovery.
Andrew believes in empowering clients through education, personalized therapy, and community support. Dedicated to creating supportive environments that empower individuals on their recovery journey, his mission is to help others reclaim their lives and rediscover hope. He is committed to giving back to the community and often participates in local outreach programs to raise awareness about addiction and recovery.
At Rainbow Hill Recovery, Andrew and his team strive to foster hope, resilience, and transformation in every individual who walks through their doors.
Janae Borrego
JANAE'S BIO
Janae Borrego is a Queer, Chicane, Gender Fluid Female (all pronouns). Janae is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the states of California, Florida, Vermont, and Idaho. She is also a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional I, Certified Integrative Mental Health Professional, Certified Mindfulness Informed Provider, and Certified EMDR Therapist. She has worked in the mental health field in various settings and roles for 14 years, has been a practicing therapist for 13 years, and has been licensed for 8 years.
She founded her own practice, JB Psychotherapy, Coaching and Consulting, where she provides psychotherapy, empowerment coaching, and mental performance coaching to diverse individuals. Janae also pursues her passion for advocating affirming, culturally sensitive, and trauma-informed care through speaking and training events. Furthermore, she is a proud committee member of LGBTQ+AAMHP, an organization focused on education and professional development supporting diversity and cultural competency.
STEVEN STEWART
STEVEN'S BIO
Steven Buffin-Stewart is the Program Manager and Case Manager at Rainbow Hill Recovery, bringing more than five years of experience in substance use disorder and mental health treatment. With CADC I certification and an Associate of Arts degree in Sociology, they blend clinical expertise with lived experience, creating an immediate sense of trust and authenticity for our clients.
In recovery themselves, Steven meets people with genuine compassion, understanding, and real-world insight. Their personal journey helps break down shame and build connection, showing clients that long-term recovery is not only possible but deeply transformative. When appropriate, they share pieces of their story to inspire hope and empower clients to believe in their own capacity for change.
In their role at Rainbow Hill Recovery, Steven is the heartbeat of our day-to-day program operations. They collaborate closely with therapists and clinical leadership to ensure each client receives coordinated, individualized care. Steven oversees caseloads, leads case conferencing, ensures clinical recommendations are followed, and supports clients through every phase of treatment—from early stabilization to reintegration and long-term planning.
They also facilitate groups centered around resilience, identity, emotional regulation, and rebuilding self-worth. Steven is deeply committed to creating inclusive, affirming spaces where queer and marginalized clients feel safe, seen, and supported throughout their healing journey. Their grounding presence, compassionate leadership, and ability to hold both structure and care make them an anchor for clients and staff alike.
Passionate about helping individuals reclaim their autonomy and rediscover who they are beneath the layers of survival, Steven truly embodies the mission of Rainbow Hill. Through accountability, empowerment, and heart, they help our community not just get better, but thrive.
RORY SLIKKER
RORY'S BIO
Sarina Sity
SARINA'S BIO
As a Black biracial, queer woman of color, identity has been at the forefront of all my experiences—whether intentional or unintentional. Navigating the varying aspects of who I am as a person and the intersections of identity, I understand how difficult it can be in a therapist’s office to feel seen and heard for the personal experiences we navigate on a level unique to our individual selves. Our differences feel loud and they’re acknowledged first before who we are as a person, and that impacts how we take up space in every room.
Individual therapy sessions require a level of safety and trust that I want to prioritize when I’m meeting with my clients. It’s important to have transparent and vulnerable conversations regarding the current political environment and the impacts of that on all facets of an individual’s identity, including their mental health recovery. A session with me is intended to be affirming without feelings of being pathologized. We’ll get curious about personal experiences, identity, patterns, and explore empowering coping mechanisms to replace ones that no longer serve us on our journey.
I work from a depth-oriented, humanistic, holistic approach to therapeutic treatment, utilizing both psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches as well as CBT, ACT, DBT, and treating my clients with unconditional positive regard. My style is compassionate, affirming, collaborative, relational in my psychotherapy approaches, and sociopolitically aware. I work to create a space of containment that honors all aspects of your authentic self.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, CA, I earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology with a minor focus on Gender Studies at CSUN, which led me to complete my Master’s Degree in Social Work there as well. I’m passionate about supporting disenfranchised populations, specifically queer-identifying people and BIPOC folx, and have found working at Rainbow Hill to be a liberating, affirming, and empowering experience as a clinician.
JARED YOUNG
JARED'S BIO
Dr. Jared Young graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a BS in Kinesiology and later went on to receive his Doctor of Chiropractic from Cleveland Chiropractic College of Los Angeles. Through the course of his chiropractic career, he found that by first addressing chronic stress in his patient’s body—specifically by addressing how patients breathe and move—there was an acceleration in the elimination of the symptoms that brought patients to his office. Many times, simply activating the diaphragm and training the patient to breathe with this muscle again would eliminate the pain they came in for.
In 2019, Dr. Young was invited to offer his style of chiropractic treatment at an addiction recovery center in Huntington Beach, CA. When he started treating the patients there, it quickly became evident that addressing chronic stress in order to eliminate pain was also having a profound effect on the patient’s state of mind. They reported being more engaged during their talk therapy treatment sessions and having a better outlook generally.
Observing the addiction cycle of having a stressful situation lead to a trigger that leads to a relapse, he started focusing more and more on the power of taking control of stress by effectively managing the physical manifestations—breathing patterns and muscle tension throughout the body, particularly in the shoulders and jaw—before they led to emotional triggers.
This has led to an engagement with client/partners who own and run addiction recovery centers. These clients believe, like Dr. Young, that the industry standard for long-term sobriety is not acceptable. Together with Dr. Young, these client/partners are committed to offering their clients the opportunity to receive initial training in and long-term support for changing lifestyle patterns that will systematically help them develop the skills necessary to effectively manage the physical manifestations of stress and thereby have a higher chance of successful long-term sobriety and overall health.
Founder and Managing Director of The Vibe Wellness (2024)
• Offering chiropractic and medical support for the addiction recovery industry with an “Inside Out” approach to mental health and sobriety.
Risley Lesko
RISLEY'S BIO
Risley Lesko is a clinical counselor passionate about helping his clients work to find the change you have been seeking within yourself after so many attempts to find it in people, places, and things. He draws from personal experiences as a gay man in recovery from addiction and mental health struggles and professional experiences at a wide variety of non profit, for profit, and private practice settings.
Risley is particularly passionate about helping individuals that are navigating sobriety or other major life transitions and finding it hard to cope with their new “normal,”. Healing and growth are often painful experiences, and Risley loves helping clients to find purpose and constructive elements along their journey. He provides in person and telehealth therapy services.
To learn more, find Risley at
Psychology Today:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/risley-thomas-lesko-los-angeles-ca/1406465
Website: https://risleycounseling.com
To contact Risley, please call him at 424-234-9773
or email him at risleycounseling@gmail.com