Bryn Jessup, PhD, Director of Family Services & Systems, Yellowbrick

Bryn Jessup, PhD is the Director of Family Services & Systems at Yellowbrick. He received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1984, where he developed an enduring interest in child development, trauma, and family therapy. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at The University of Michigan Children’s Hospital, he joined the staff at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, where he became the Associate Clinical Director of its Inpatient Psychiatry Unit. He also served on the adjunct faculty of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine from 1986 through 2011. He joined The Phoenix Institute in 1996, a Chicago-based psychotherapy practice group specializing in trauma, and continued outpatient work with children, adolescents, adults, and families in private practice before joining Yellowbrick in 2015. 

Pete Myers, PsyD, Director of Groups & Therapeutic Community Services, Yellowbrick 

Pete Myers, PsyD is the Director of Groups & Therapeutic Community Services at Yellowbrick. He received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology in 1999 and has worked in the field of mental health for the past 33 years with a strong foundation in psychodynamic and family systems-based approaches. Much of his career has been at the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School at the University of Chicago, a residential and therapeutic school for children and adolescents with profound mental health and special educational needs. He eventually became its Co-Executive Director before joining Yellowbrick in 2021. Dr. Myers has also served as Director of the Brooke Whitted Center, a transitional program for emerging young adults with significant mental health challenges, and has been a part-time lecturer at the University of Chicago’s Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology.