FACULTY PROFILE
Shea M. Dunham is currently an Associate Professor in the
Division of Psychology and Counseling at Governors State University, where she
won Faculty of The Year in 2010 in the Division of Psychology and Counseling
and has been nominated for the University Faculty Excellence Award several
times. She is a counselor educator and an associate member of the American Association
of Marriage and Family Therapy specializing in Emotionally Focused Couples
Therapy working with parents and their adult children, and African American and
intercultural couples.
She has published and/or presented on such topics as
African Americans and intimacy, poisonous parents and their adult children,
emotional skillfulness in African American couples, training counselors and
marriage and family therapists, and family social advocacy. She recently
published the book, Poisonous Parenting: Toxic Relationships Between Parents
and Their Adult Children. Dr. Dunham continues to add to the field of
counseling and marriage and family therapy/counseling by seeing clients in a
private practice setting at Lifeworks counseling agency in Oakbrook, IL. In
addition, she also provides student coaching for students who are struggling
academically and/or with personal issues.