The Juniper Center
Barbara Schwartz MA, LCPC, has extensive experience in the field of therapy and education, currently serving as a children and adult therapist at The Juniper Center since August 2014. Prior experience includes roles at Chicago Public Schools as a Resource Teacher Substitute Teacher from August 2011 to June 2014 and as a Case Manager/Guidance Counselor from September 2007 to June 2011, focusing on case management and guidance counseling for students with special needs. Additional experience includes serving as a Teaching Assistant at Friendship Junior High School, Co-director of a summer day camp at Glenview Park District, and Community Outreach Coordinator at the Maine Niles Association of Special Recreation. Barbara Schwartz holds a Master's degree in Counseling, specializing in School Counseling, from Northeastern Illinois University and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology with a minor in Education from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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.