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Dr. Caitlyn McClure is the Vice President of Clinical Services at Northern Illinois Recovery, where she leads a clinical team focused on trauma-informed, evidence-based practices in addiction recovery. She holds a Doctorate in Social Work, with research published on burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and compassion satisfaction, and serves on the editorial committee of a peer-reviewed journal. Dr. McClure has presented at local and state conferences on trauma, addiction, and mental health crises, and her work aims to improve both client outcomes and clinician well-being in high-stress environments.

Dr. Beth Dunlap, a board-certified addiction medicine and family medicine physician, is the medical director at Northern Illinois Recovery Center. She is responsible for overseeing all the integrated medical services at both campuses. Beth completed medical school, residency, and fellowship at Northwestern University, where she continues to serve on the faculty as a member of the Department of Family and Community Medicine. She has extensive experience in addiction medicine at all levels of care, and her clinical interests include integrated primary care and addiction medicine, harm reduction, and medication-assisted treatment.

Derek graduated from Loyola University Chicago with a BA in Theater and then returned for a Masters in Social Work with focuses in mental health and children/families. He used this diverse academic background to dive into a variety of clinical implementations including running an after school theater program with inner city youth, serving as a crisis intervention specialist at a therapeutic day school, working as the youth director and then Director of Operations at a transitional living program, and accumulating over seven years working in behavioral health hospitals in varied roles. Most recently, Derek was the supervisor of education programs at a domestic violence agency. His therapeutic ideology is that each person is unique in their own way and he aims to highlight an individual’s strengths to overcome any obstacles. Derek leans into this strengths-based model with strong focuses on DBT, CBT, family systems theory and multiple intelligence theory in his practice.