Our Team
Tara Gill, PhD
Psychologist
Tara Gill is a Psychologist and Mental Health Consultant with Lurie Children’s Center for Childhood Resilience (CCR) and an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Gill has over 20 years of experience in outpatient, community, hospital, and school-based settings. Through consultation, training and coaching, she works to build the capacity of schools and other youth-serving organizations in areas of culturally attuned, evidence-based, and trauma-informed interventions and supports to serve all children. Dr. Gill collaborates with schools, school districts and community partners to establish multi-tiered Behavioral Health Teams (BHTs) which serve to identify, refer and connect students with appropriate mental health services. Dr. Gill partners with youth-serving organizations to elevate youth voice by coaching adolescents in health, wellness and equity while utilizing a public health approach. Her expertise at the community level focuses on initiatives for advocacy, child welfare, policy and community engagement with an emphasis on addressing racism and inequity.
Dr. Gill was awarded the Linzer Grant by the Office of the Provost of Northwestern University, which acknowledges innovation in diversity and equity by investing public health education in medical students and high school scholars. Dr. Gill is the Academic Co-Chair on the Steering Committee of Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities (ARCC) and Center for Community Health at Northwestern University. She is also a member of the Race and Equity subcommittee of Lurie Children’s Pritzker Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health. Dr. Gill serves on the Chicago Department of Public Health Trauma Informed City initiative and is a member of the Trauma-Informed Faith Congregations Steering Committee.
She received her Bachelor of Science degree in psychology from Jackson State University and Master’s degree and PhD in clinical psychology (child track) from DePaul University.