Danny Gordon, LCSW
Danny is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a Masters of Social Work from Governors State University. For over 20 years, he has been providing academic support and career counseling to adolescents, young adults, and their family members, as well as directing teams of service-providers in assisting students and high school dropouts of Chicago Public Schools.
Danny also provides clinical therapeutic support and interventions to individuals and families. Supporting people as they recover from chronic anxiety, depression, and other presentations of distress, he engages with people collaboratively. Applying an eclectic therapeutic approach drawing from narrative, cognitive behavioral, solution-focused, and mindfulness-based psychotherapy paradigms, Danny approaches each individual and family he meets with an openness and warmth that provides the safety and security needed to work through complex issues.
Consultation and on-going professional development are key components of Danny's practice. He regularly meets with a team that includes a neuropsychologist, educational therapists, and fellow psychotherapists. Collegial dialogue sparks insight and strengthens clinical practices. Danny is committed to lifelong learning, developing and deepening his practice skills, and collaboration.
Jami Pugh, MA, LCPC, ATR-BC
Jami’s greatest passion and strength in life is serving and helping others. Her dual training and education in Clinical Counseling and Art Therapy enable her to work with others to re-discover their passion and strength through verbal and non-verbal expression.
Jami is a Licensed Professional Counselor who provides person-centered therapy and art therapy to adults and teenagers. She works with individuals to address concerns including: depression, self-esteem, anxiety, relationship problems, grief/loss, trauma, and other issues related to identify, adjustment, and interpersonal effectiveness. Jami’s professional experience includes work with children, adolescents, and adults populations individually and in group therapy in outpatient individual therapy, middle school and alternative high school, residential addictions treatment center, and inpatient and outpatient psychiatric hospitals. Jami has experience working with individuals with a wide variety of needs including: anxiety, depression, high-functioning autism, poverty, eating disorders, trauma/PTSD, dual diagnosis (addictions), domestic violence survivors, anger management, and HIV. Through these experiences she has gained a great deal of knowledge and most significantly, she has been a witness of human resilience through the opportunities.
Jami believes that therapy is a collaborative process where the therapist works with the client to identify his or her own unique needs and goals. She works with clients as gain insight and skills to get "unstuck" and moving in the direction they wish to go. Jami works to provide a safe and nonjudgmental space, which facilitates healing and personal growth. Her approach in therapy is based on respect, warmth, trust, and honesty. She creates a place where clients can feel heard, validated, and respected as they invest their time and effort into themselves as they move toward more authentically being who they are, and living the life they desire.
Jami is a Licensed Professional Counselor who provides person-centered therapy and art therapy to adults and teenagers. She works with individuals to address concerns including: depression, self-esteem, anxiety, relationship problems, grief/loss, trauma, and other issues related to identify, adjustment, and interpersonal effectiveness. Jami’s professional experience includes work with children, adolescents, and adults populations individually and in group therapy in outpatient individual therapy, middle school and alternative high school, residential addictions treatment center, and inpatient and outpatient psychiatric hospitals. Jami has experience working with individuals with a wide variety of needs including: anxiety, depression, high-functioning autism, poverty, eating disorders, trauma/PTSD, dual diagnosis (addictions), domestic violence survivors, anger management, and HIV. Through these experiences she has gained a great deal of knowledge and most significantly, she has been a witness of human resilience through the opportunities.
Jami believes that therapy is a collaborative process where the therapist works with the client to identify his or her own unique needs and goals. She works with clients as gain insight and skills to get "unstuck" and moving in the direction they wish to go. Jami works to provide a safe and nonjudgmental space, which facilitates healing and personal growth. Her approach in therapy is based on respect, warmth, trust, and honesty. She creates a place where clients can feel heard, validated, and respected as they invest their time and effort into themselves as they move toward more authentically being who they are, and living the life they desire.