Kerry O'Donnell, Bill Utz and Tiffany Green, all pastoral counselors, join Dr. Dillon and Marissa Happ as clinical staff at GPS. Together we work to provide services to the whole system, in that even when working with an individual, we always consider the relational network in which that person lives. We may also collaborate in that one of us may see an individual and another clinician the couple or family. We are committed to ongoing learning and support one another as a staff through regular study and inspiration for the care of our own bodies, minds and souls as we remain faithful in our calling.
“Be strong and courageous and get to work. Don’t be frightened by the size of the task, for the Lord my God is with you; He will not forsake you. He will see to it that everything is finished correctly.”
Charlotte Dillon, Ph.D., MPS, SEP, Certified DARe Session Provider
Clinical Psychologist
Contact Information: (630) 896-2337 or dr.cdillon@gatewaypsychologicalservices.com
Contemporary neuroscience substantiates we are created for connection, we are fearfully and wonderfully made, and how we treat one another matters, across all domains and stages of life. A seasoned clinician of faith, Char bears witness to her client's story, and helps facilitate new insights, language, and practices which promote healthier personal integration and secure relationships. She specializes in developmental trauma. Char is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), a certified DARe session provider, and has completed Steve Terrell’s Somatic Resilience and Regulation training. She also uses the evolving neurosciences and developmental psychology to inform her
work.
Char is certified to provide DARe sessions and consultations and is also approved to provide personal sessions for Beginning - Advanced Tiers of SE training.
Owner: Gateway Psychological Services, Ltd.
Tiffany Green, LCPC, MDIV, MBA, PSEP, DARe
Psychotherapist and Pastoral Counselor
Contact Information: (630) 896-2337 or tgreen.mapc@gatewaypsychologicalservices.com
One of Tiffany's guiding principles addresses the inherent responsibility we have TO and FOR one another in relationships. Tiffany views the therapeutic relationship as a pathway for transformation and healing. She provides an emotionally safe, pastoral presence where one's story can emerge to create greater insight and understanding. Tiffany has a special heart for being a resource to clients with identity issues, spiritual concerns, anxiety, and depression, as well as those dealing with life transitions.
Tiffany is in the Advanced year of Somatic Experiencing and has completed all four modules of Diane Poole Heller’s DARe work.
Kerry O'Donnell, LCPC, SEP, DARe
Psychotherapist and Pastoral Counselor
Contact Information: (630) 896-2337 or kodonnell.lcpc@gatewaypsychologicalservices.com
Kerry seeks to empower clients to live into greater insight and understanding, trusting that each person is on a journey towards becoming their best self, for themselves as well as others. Through an integrative approach to psychotherapy and with the ability to incorporate spirituality, if important to the client, Kerry deeply listens and reflects as the client moves toward healing and wholeness in mind, body and spirit. Kerry is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) who has also completed the Touch Skills and Somatic Regulation and Resilience trainings with Steve Terrill. She utilizes these interventions in the healing of trauma and the support of nervous system regulation when appropriate.
Kerry has completed all four modules of Diane Poole Heller’s DARe work.
William Utz, LCPC
Psychotherapist and Pastoral Counselor
Contact Information: (630) 896-2337 or wutzlcpc@gatewaypsychologicalservices.com
Bill considers it a sacred privilege to meet people wherever they are in their journey and help them move toward health and wholeness. As a seasoned therapist, Bill specializes in couples' counseling, relational trauma, spiritual concerns, addiction, anxiety, life transitions, and men's issues. He brings a grounded pastoral presence to the therapy process that has been honed through specific life and clinical experience. With authenticity and compassion, Bill respectfully joins with his clients, letting each one know they do not walk alone in their journey.
Marissa Happ, DSW, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Contact Information: (630) 896-2337 or mhapplcsw@gatewaypsychologicalservices.com
Gateway warmly welcomes our newest member to our clinical staff.
As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Marissa is committed to the core values of her profession and believes in the dignity and worth of every person and the importance of human relationships. She seeks at all times to embody service, integrity and competence in her clinical work. From her psychiatric hospital work with children and adolescents to her hospice work with individuals and families facing death and loss, Marissa is attuned to the unique language of suffering and knows the value of radiant listening and companionship throughout the therapeutic process. She believes that every crisis is, in fact, a divine invitation to new insight and integration. Marissa utilizes the expressive arts and the healing capacity of nature to help clients re-write their narratives and recapture a sense of joy.