Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Substance Use Disorder Registered Counselor (SUDRC I)
As CEO of Asana Recovery, Mark Shandrow provides executive leadership and strategic oversight for the organization’s treatment programs. He works closely with licensed clinicians and clinical leadership to ensure Asana Recovery delivers evidence-based, ethical, and patient-centered care across all levels of care offered by the organization, including outpatient and dual diagnosis programs.
Credentials & Professional Qualifications
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Economics — University of New Hampshire
Substance Use Disorder Registered Counselor (SUDRC I)
California Association of Drug and Alcohol Programs (CADTP)
Registration Number: #22619
Registration Valid Through: September 2026
Credential Verification – Mark Steven Shandrow, SUDRC I (CADTP)
As CEO of Asana Recovery, Mark brings over 30 years of business experience to innovate and implement exceptional addiction treatment. Since entering the behavioral healthcare field in 2009, he has played a leadership role in organizations that have supported over 20,000 families affected by addiction and mental health challenges.
Before founding Asana Recovery, Mark played a key role in growing Solid Landings Behavioral Health into a leading organization in Southern California. His education and business background equip him to navigate the complex healthcare and addiction treatment landscape, ensuring Asana Recovery’s stability, regulatory compliance, and long-term mission fulfillment.
Mark holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of New Hampshire. In addition to his work in behavioral health, he has been active in the nonprofit sector, including founding Bikestation, an organization that promotes urban bike-transit centers and has raised millions to support alternative transportation initiatives.
Under Mark’s leadership, Asana Recovery was recognized as one of Newsweek’s Best Addiction Treatment Centers of 2023. The organization operates fully licensed programs and maintains accreditation through CARF and The Joint Commission, reflecting a commitment to quality, accountability, and patient-centered care.
Mark has two young adult children and enjoys traveling, mountain biking, skiing, boating, and attending Formula 1 races. When not leading Asana Recovery, he is often engaged in outdoor pursuits that reflect balance, wellness, and long-term sustainability.
For further insights into Mark’s leadership and perspective on the addiction treatment industry, you can listen to his interview on the Thoughtful Entrepreneur Podcast, where he discusses organizational growth, ethical care models, and the evolving landscape of behavioral healthcare.
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We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to