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Courses

  • 40800 Family Systems Approaches to Practice
  • 64100 Essential Skills in Couple Therapy

Job Experience

  • Senior Staff Therapist, The Family Institue at Northwestern University
  • Associate Professor of Counseling, Loyola University, New Orleans
  • Private practice
  • McCormick Tribune Foundation Chair and Program Director for Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy; Assistant Clinical Professor in the Center for Applied Psychological and Family Studies and The Family Institute at Northwestern University

Fields of Special Interest

  • Couple and family therapy education, training and practice
  • Family life-cycle development
  • Interface aspects of the self-of-the-therapist
  • Culture, community, and contextual foundations
  • Systemic approaches to treatment of addiction

Publications or Presentations

  • Thomas, F. N. & Dwyer, T. F. (2012). Just do it: The therapist’s recursive relationship between being and being in couple’s therapy. Context, (June) p. 2-6. (requested reprint by the Family Therapy Association of U.K.)
  • Dwyer, T. F. (2011).  Family caregiving across the lifespan. Family Therapy Magazine. (Jan/Feb) p. 18-21.
  • Dwyer, T. F. & Thomas, F. N. (2010). Just do it: The therapist’s recursive relationship between being and being in couple’s therapy. Journal of the Texas Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, 15, 40-50.
  • Godwin, E., Meek, G. & Dwyer, T. (2009). Parenting stress & marital satisfaction in families of young adolescents. Louisiana Journal of Counseling, 16, 29-38.
Nikel Bailey

Nikel Bailey, AM '12

"I've been able to achieve my accomplishments by not just waiting for things to come to me. Seek and ye shall find," says Nikel Bailey, AM '12.