The Juniper Center
Garrett Pluhar-Schaeffer, LCSW, is an experienced psychotherapist currently working at The Juniper Center since July 2020. Prior to this role, Garrett held positions as a psychotherapist at Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago and as an Exploring Psychoanalysis Fellow at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute. Additional experience includes serving as a Community Support Specialist at Thresholds and a Clinical Social Work Intern at Jewish Child & Family Services. Garrett also contributed to the arts as a Music Instructor at Allegro Music Center and held a board position with the Park Ridge Civic Orchestra. Educationally, Garrett is working towards a certificate in Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute and holds a Master of Social Work from Erikson Institute, as well as graduate work in Music History and Theory from Stony Brook University. A Bachelor of Arts in Music and Philosophy was earned from Lake Forest College.
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.