Bio
Dr. Shea Dunham is a highly experienced Counselor Educator with over 15 years of experience in higher education. She is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC). Dr. Dunham has been a clinician for over 19 years and specializes in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy. She has extensive experience working with couples and has published and presented on various topics, including African Americans and intimacy, infidelity, attachment, conflictual relationships between parents and their adult children, complex trauma, and training counselors and marriage and family therapists. In addition to her clinical work, she offers coaching services to students facing academic or personal challenges. Dr. Dunham continues to serve clients in a private practice setting.
Research Interests
Her primary research interests are in the areas of parental issues with adult children, multicultural counseling focusing on supervision and training, attachment theory, infidelity, trauma, couples counseling, and emotionally focused couples’ therapy.
Recent Publications
- Shea Dunham (2017). (Attachment-Based Family Therapy. ). In Carlson. J, & S. B. Dermer, (Encyclopedia of Marriage, Family, and Couples Counseling. In Carlson. J, & S. B. Dermer. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.) (1) 1, Sage.
- Shea Dunham (2017). (Attachment Theory). In Carlson. J, & S. B. Dermer, (Encyclopedia of Marriage, Family, and Couples Counseling. In Carlson. J, & S. B. Dermer. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.) (1) 1, Sage.
- Shea Dunham (2017). (International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors.). In Carlson. J, & S. B. Dermer, (Encyclopedia of Marriage, Family, and Couples Counseling. In Carlson. J, & S. B. Dermer. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.) (1) 1, Sage.
- Shea Dunham (2016). (Emotionally focused couple therapy: An interview with Scott Woolley, PhD.). 24, pp. 95-100. The Family Journal.
- Shannon Dermer, Shea Dunham, Catherine Ford-Sori (2016). (Movies and Emotion Coaching Parenting. ). In C. Ford Sori, L. Hecker, & M. Bachenberg, (The Therapist Notebook for Children and Adolescents. ) (2) pp. 331-333. Routledge.
