SHIRLEY CUNNINGHAM, MA, MSW, CISW is a certified counselor in private practice specializing in individual, marriage, family and group work. She also trained as a spiritual director at the Shalem Institute, Washington DC and was one of the founders of the Kino Institute’s Spiritual Direction Training Program, Phoenix, AZ. She has taught on the college and university level and offered workshops and retreats for over twenty years in a variety of settings.

A long-time student of spirituality, psychology, journaling, dreams, intuition, imagery and creativity, she has kept journals and written poetry from childhood. CHASING GOD is her first book.