Meet Your Next Therapy Provider:
Chandler Dunham
Chandler Dunham, LCSW
Chandler Dunham is a compassionate Licensed Clinical of Social Work dedicated to supporting individuals on their journey toward healing and self-discovery. She earned her Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Oklahoma in 2019 and her Master of Social Work from the University of Denver in 2020.
Specializing in working with both youth and adults, Chandler focuses on empowering individuals coping with mental illness, eating disorders, and trauma. Her approach is holistic, compassionate, and strengths-based, rooted in a trauma-informed perspective.
Chandler is trained in Brainspotting and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, utilizing these techniques to facilitate trauma processing and healing. With a certificate in Art Therapy, she integrates creative expression into her sessions, fostering exploration and healing through various mediums.
Drawing from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO-DBT), Chandler helps clients develop psychological flexibility, emotion regulation skills, and interpersonal effectiveness. She believes in guiding clients to live authentically in alignment with their values while fostering mind-body connections.
Previously, Chandler served as a Lead Therapist at a residential treatment center for eating disorders in Atlanta, conducting individual, family, and group therapy sessions. She approaches therapy as a collaborative partnership, creating a safe, respectful, and supportive environment where clients feel empowered to explore their vulnerabilities and foster growth.
Chandler sees symptoms, imbalance, or conflict in clients’ lives as opportunities for curiosity and positive change. She deeply admires her clients’ courage and resilience and is committed to walking alongside them as they navigate their unique healing journeys. With an open mind and heart, Chandler is passionate about learning and supporting her clients in realizing their full potential.
Pronouns | she, her, hers
-David Richo
Favorite Resources
Books:
- The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
- A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson
- Sensitive Is the New Strong: The Power of Empaths in an Increasingly Harsh World by Anita Moorjani
- The Inside Scoop on Eating Disorder Recovery by Jennifer Rollin and Colleen Reichmann
Podcasts:
- Unlocking Us with Brene Brown
- Oprah’s Super Soul
Chandler Dunham, LMSW
Chandler Dunham is a Licensed Master of Social Work. Chandler received her Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Oklahoma in 2019 and her Master of Social Work from the University of Denver in 2020. She loves to work with youth and adults who are coping with mental illness, eating disorders, and trauma using a holistic, compassionate, and strengths-based approach with a trauma-informed perspective.
Chandler offers Brainspotting and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as trauma processing tools. Having a certificate in Art Therapy, she also likes to get creative with clients.
Chandler enjoys helping clients recognize and challenge trauma-related stuck points and develop more self-awareness as to how their past traumas may be influencing their present while developing more mind-body connections.
Chandler offers counseling with the combination of genuine support and openness and the opportunity for healing through creative expression. She draws heavily from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), helping clients live in ways consistent with personal values while developing psychological flexibility, emotion regulation skills, and interpersonal effectiveness.
In addition to her work with WholeHeart, Chandler has served as a Lead Therapist at a residential treatment center for eating disorders in Atlanta where she conducted both individual and group therapy sessions. She has a passion for learning and getting curious, living life with an open mind and heart.
Chandler sees therapy as a partnership that can lead clients towards more self-awareness, connection, and growth. It is important to her that those she works with feel safe, respected, cared for, and challenged to grow. She greatly admires her clients for their courage to be vulnerable, and she views symptoms, imbalance, or conflict in our lives as an opportunity for curiosity and to make a change.
Pronouns | she, her, hers
-David Richo
Favorite Resources
Books:
- The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
- A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson
- Sensitive Is the New Strong: The Power of Empaths in an Increasingly Harsh World by Anita Moorjani
- The Inside Scoop on Eating Disorder Recovery by Jennifer Rollin and Colleen Reichmann
Podcasts:
- Unlocking Us with Brene Brown
- Oprah’s Super Soul
WholeHeart Psychotherapy
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CEU Workshops
Workshops are longer sessions designed to help deliver a large amount of content in a short period of time. Oftentimes, workshops can last hours to days and are provided in a group format to deliver an intervention in a detailed and often experiential way.