Dr. Rob Jury (he/him/his) is a Core Faculty Clinical Lecturer in the Counseling@Northwestern program at The Family Institute at Northwestern University. He serves as the Research Coordinator for Counseling@Northwestern and is the Primary Investigator at the MIDRASH Lab. He received his PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision at Northern Illinois University, in DeKalb, Illinois.

He has a Masters of Arts (MA) in Counseling from Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois, and a Masters of Counseling in Narrative Therapy & Community Work (MC-NTCW) from the University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia. He is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in the State of Illinois a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the State of Connecticut, a Registered and Accredited member of the Irish Association of Counseling and Psychotherapy (MIACP), a National Certified Counselor (NCC), a Certified Reciprocal Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CRADC), an Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS), and a Board Certified Chaplain (BCC) with the Neshama Association of Jewish Chaplains (NAJC) and the Association of Professional Chaplains (APC). He completed a Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) Residency at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital with a focus on trauma and addiction chaplaincy.

He has a graduate certificate in Jewish Leadership from a joint program of Spertus Institute of Jewish Learning & Leadership and Northwestern University, a graduate certificate in Trauma Informed Counseling and a graduate certificate in Advanced Quantitative Research Methods in Education from Northern Illinois University. Rob completed training in the use of the Mandala Assessment Research Instrument (MARI) and is a Veriditas Advanced Trained and Certified Labyrinth Facilitator with experience facilitating the therapeutic use of labyrinths in inpatient, residential, and outpatient treatment of substance use disorders. Rob completed the Spiritual Counseling Certificate Program through the Elaine Breslow Institute of Beit T’Shuvah in Los Angeles, and completed a research fellowship in Jewish Pedagogies of Wellbeing at M 2 The Institute for Experiential Jewish Education.

Rob’s clinical counseling experience is with mental health disorders, patients recovering from injury or illness, patients recovering from substance use disorders and non-substance related addictions, marriage and family counseling, survivors of religious and spiritual trauma, and people looking to integrate religion and/or spirituality into their counseling sessions. Rob serves as the Clinical Director for the Tikvah Center for Jewish Recovery & Healing, a state licensed and Joint Commission accredited addiction treatment program in Northbrook, Illinois.

Rob conducted research funded by a grant from the Jewish United Fund Breakthrough and Innovation Grant on establishing faith-based sober living homes, conducted a qualitative study and needs assessment for JCFS Chicago addiction services, and researches spiritual assessment across the ASAM Dimensions. Rob’s research interests include Jewish attunement in psychotherapy and supervision; spirituality in addiction/recovery; narrative practices and assessment.

Publications

Jury, R.T. (2023, January). Davar Acher: Pedagogy of multi-stories. Institute for Experiential Jewish Education. https://ieje.org/resources/davar-acher-pedagogy-of-multi-stories/

Jury, R.T. (2021). Jewish metaphors in narrative practice with people resisting addiction. International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, 3, 66-77.

Conference Presentations 2023 Parliament of the World’s Religions; Panel Member, The Labyrinth: An Interfaith Tool for Transformation.

2023 Illinois Counseling Association Counselor Educator Symposium; Panel Member, Antiracist Practices in Counselor Education and Supervision.

2022 Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies PowerNet ’22; Jewish Responses to Addiction Recovery

2021 Uganda Green Crescent Society Side Event during the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs in its 64th Session; Panel Member, Faith Based Methods for Prevention of Narcotic Drugs-Use: Perspectives from Muslim, Christian, Hindu, and Jewish Communities.

2019 AMITA Health St. Francis Hospital Clergy Institute; featured afternoon speaker; Spiritual Bridges Between Despair & Hope in the Opioid Epidemic.

2019 Advocate Healthcare & Resiliency in Communities After Stress and Trauma (ReCAST) Trauma Informed Congregations Conference; Addiction and Recovery in the Jewish Community.

2019 Neshama: Association of Jewish Chaplains National Conference 2019; Mandalas of Spiritual Awakening: Stages of Change & the MARI (Mandala Assessment Research Instrument)

2018 Neshama: Association of Jewish Chaplains National Conference 2018; Labyrinths as Tools to Access Embodied Hope in Chaplaincy.

2016 Illinois Counseling Association 68th Annual Conference; Spiritual Assessment in Addiction Treatment: What It Is, How to Do It, and When and Whom to Refer. Co-Presenter with Dr. Nathan Perron.

Research Grants

2016 $25,000 research grant awarded by Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago Fund for Breakthrough & Innovation to research and report on the process of establishing a Jewish sober living home in Illinois.

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