Dr. Nadia Halberg-Wu, MD
Medical Director
Board-certified in addiction medicine. Daughter of founder Naomi Halberg; joined the clinical team in 2015 after a decade at UCSF. Oversees all medical protocols and psychiatric medication management.
About NTH Rehab
Dedicated to healing lives through compassionate, evidence-based care
Our Story
In 1998, a licensed clinical social worker named Naomi Halberg was three years into her own recovery. She had watched her professional treatment network fail the very people she had trusted it to help — and she had watched her own recovery succeed because of supports her program hadn't prescribed: a painting class, a choir, a standing weekly dinner with her sister.
NTH Rehab opened on Church Street in Noe Valley in 2001 with 14 beds and a premise drawn directly from Naomi's own recovery: addiction is a whole-person condition, and clinical work without creative life, embodied practice, and structured relationship work produces fragile outcomes that look good on discharge and collapse three months later.
Twenty-five years on, we operate 45 beds with 96 staff and have served more than 13,500 patients. Naomi retired from clinical practice in 2022 but still chairs our clinical advisory board. The founding premise has not changed.
Our Mission
To restore what addiction fractures — in individuals, in partnerships, in parent-child relationships, in sibling bonds. Family restoration is not a soft goal; it is the central clinical outcome we organize our work around. The patient in the bed is never the only patient; the household is.
Treatment Philosophy
Motivational enhancement. Lasting change comes from within. Our clinicians are trained in Motivational Interviewing and use it at every level of care to draw out and strengthen the patient's own reasons for recovery — not impose external ones.
Neuroscience-based care. Treatment plans are built around current research on addiction neurocircuitry — reward systems, executive-function recovery timelines, sleep and cortisol regulation — so interventions match what the brain actually needs in each phase.
Community reintegration. Discharge planning starts in week one and includes sober-living introductions across the Bay Area, employer re-engagement conversations, and a 90-day alumni check-in cadence that keeps recovery relational, not isolating.
Our Team
Gideon Marwan, LCSW
Executive Director
Licensed clinical social worker. Fifteen years of Bay Area community mental health leadership before joining NTH in 2019. Stewards the organization's operations, staffing, and relationships with Bay Area health systems.
Dr. Ophelia Takahara, PsyD
Director of Clinical Psychology
Licensed psychologist specializing in trauma and dual diagnosis. Trains the clinical staff on integrated dual diagnosis care and supervises the trauma protocol library.
Reginald Maseko, ATR-BC
Director of Creative Arts Therapies
Board-certified art therapist. Leads the art therapy, music therapy, and movement programming. Twenty years of practice across inpatient psychiatric and addiction settings.
Consuela Arrington-Pike, MFT
Director of Family Programming
Marriage and family therapist who designs the weekly family sessions, multi-family workshops, and parent/partner coaching. Bilingual Spanish/English.
Pierre-Luc Dubois, CADC-II
Alumni & Peer Support Lead
Personally in long-term recovery; NTH alumnus from 2012. Runs the alumni program, weekly community meeting, and peer mentor pairings for current residents.
Our Facility
Amenities
- Art Therapy Room
- Music Room
- Library
- Acupuncture Suite
- Farm-to-Table Kitchen
- Community Garden
- Family Visiting Area
Learn More About Our Approach
Contact us today to learn about our programs and dedicated team.