Cadmona Hall, Ph.D, LMFT
Full Professor | Couple and Family Therapy Department Chair
Couple and Family Therapy
Chicago, Vancouver
“There’s a way for us to earn a solid living and have a sense of social consciousness; for us as a community to speak up, speak out, and dare to have our voices about social matters be heard; for us to take bold positions in support of issues that are bigger than our professional self-interest.” – Kenneth V. Hardy, Ph.D
OVERVIEW
Dr. Hall is an experienced educator, supervisor, therapist, and academic leader with over 20 years of clinical practice and extensive experience training graduate students and clinicians nationally and internationally. Her work centers socially just family therapy practices, relational ethics, and the development of critical consciousness in clinical training.
Dr. Hall’s scholarship and teaching focus on social justice in family therapy, with particular attention to how African Americans access and experience culturally affirming therapeutic services. She has written, presented, and provided professional trainings on bereavement, emphasizing the systemic and relational nature of healing, as well as social justice – oriented approaches to grief and loss.
As a faculty member in the Couple and Family Therapy program, Dr. Hall teaches foundational and advanced courses, provides clinical supervision, and mentors both master’s and doctoral students. She currently serves as department chair, where her leadership priorities include strengthening departmental cohesion, supporting equity-centered pedagogy, and fostering reflective, relationally grounded clinician development.
Through Hall Consultation & Therapy Services, Dr. Hall works with couples, families, and individuals and provides professional consultation, supervision, trainings, seminars, and executive coaching related to bereavement, social justice, and the integration of critical consciousness into clinical and organizational practice.
Dr. Hall is a certified yoga teacher, runner, and houseplant enthusiast. She is an active participant in the Chi-Town Shouters, an African American ring shout group, and also enjoys dancing cumbia, bachata, and salsa.
MEMBERSHIPS + ASSOCIATIONS
- American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT), Clinical Fellow.
- AAMFT, Approved Supervisor.
- Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC), Fellow in Thanatology.
- International Family Therapy Association (IFTA).
Publications + Presentations
Publications
“Griefworks”: Integrating Emotional Processing and Meaning-Making into Grief Therapy.
Death of a Spouse. In J.L. Hartenstein (Ed.), Marriage and Divorce in America: Issues, Trends, and Controversies Encyclopedia.
Bereavement in Older Adults. In S. Derman (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Multicultural Counseling, Social Justice, and Advocacy.
(2022). Translating research into clinical practice: Individuals and Families Experiencing Loss and Bereavement. In S. Browning & B. van Eeden-Moorefield (Eds.), Treating interpersonal problems in contemporary families: An inclusive approach to engaging evidence supported practice (pp. xxx-xxx).
“Unbreak My Heart”: Clinical Implications for Working With Bereaved Couples.
Grief and Loss Effects on the Couple. In K.S Wampler (Ed.), Handbook of Systemic Family Therapy.
Presentations
Refining the Truths We Can Tell Each Other’: Multi-Cultural Couples Therapy.
Supporting BIPOC students in Supervision and Promoting Self of the Supervisor Awareness.
Engaging in Restorative Practices: Black Women Health & Healing.
Kenya & US Cross Cultural Collaboration in Clinical Supervision.
Hall, C. A., Ungureanu, I., & Williams, I. D. (2022). Providing Socially Just Supervision in Marriage & Family Counseling.
Are We There Yet? Positioning Social Justice at the Heart of Family Therapy.
Contextual Therapy for Working with Populations Experiencing Social Injustice.
Round Table Discussion.
Talking the Talk: Integrating Strategies for Challenging Racism in Therapy.
LEADERSHIP + ENGAGEMENT
- Black Caucus – Adler University, Chair, 2021-22.
- Anti-Racism Board of Trustees Committee, Member, 2021-23.
- Black Caucus – Adler University, Vice-Chair, 2020-21.
- Sabbatical and Promotion Committee – Adler University, Chair, Rank, 2017-18.
- Seed Grant Committee – Adler University, Chair, 2016-18.
- Rank and Promotion Committee – Adler University, Co-chair, 2015-17.
- CFT Admissions Committee – Adler University, Chair, 2014-15.