The Juniper Center
Andrea Bercos is a seasoned professional in social work and psychotherapy with extensive experience spanning two decades. Currently serving as a School Social Worker at Waukegan Public Schools and a Psychotherapist at The Juniper Center, Andrea specializes in supporting trans youth and the LGBTQ community, in addition to offering telehealth services. Other roles include therapist in a private practice since 2016, Flex Counselor II at the Lake County Health Department, and various social work positions at multiple educational institutions, including Evanston Township High School and the Special Education District of Lake County. Andrea holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Illinois Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Truman State University.
The Juniper Center
The Juniper Center provides expert, individualized care by 60+ clinicians in five Chicagoland locations and throughout the state of Illinois via teletherapy. The Juniper Center specializes in trauma recovery, depression and anxiety, diverse sexuality and gender identities, addiction treatment, and relationship and family therapy. Founded by Dr. Margo Jacquot in 1996, The Juniper Center is one of the largest women-owned counseling and therapy practices in the area, and provides counseling and psychotherapy, psychiatry and medication management, therapeutic yoga and movement therapy, and psychological testing services for all ages. The Juniper Center takes its name from the juniper tree: Resilient beyond measure, growing and thriving in the most barren of places; shaped by the wind and sun, its trunk becomes a beautiful, majestic sculpture amidst treacherous terrain.