Anthony Chambers, PhD

Anthony Chambers is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychology, Research Program Coordinator for The Family Institute and the Center for Applied Psychological and Family Studies, and a Staff Licensed Clinical Psychologist at The Family Institute at Northwestern University.

 

Dr. Chambers received his undergraduate degree from Hampton University, and completed his M.A. & Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Virginia (Department of Psychology). He completed his internship and post-doctoral clinical residency at Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital, specializing in the treatment of couples. Dr. Chambers also completed a two-year post-graduate fellowship specializing in couples’ therapy at The Family Institute at Northwestern University. His clinical interests also include premarital counseling. Dr. Chambers has completed training and is an approved provider in two of the most comprehensive and well respected divorce-prevention/marriage enhancing programs in the world: PREP (Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program) and PREPARE/ENRICH.

 

Dr. Chambers is the recipient of numerous awards and is the author of several publications, grants, & presentations focused on couples’ functioning and on young adults’ professional development. He was the principal investigator for a National Institutes of Health funded study examining fathers’ reported relationship satisfaction and its impact on the transition into fatherhood.

 

Currently, Dr. Chambers is one of the faculty members teaching an exciting, innovative course at Northwestern University entitled “Marriage 101”. Marriage 101 is a course taught to undergraduates about mate selection and about the intricacies of committed, romantic relationships, especially marriage, with the ultimate goal of enhancing relationships and preventing problems.  Dr. Chambers is also a co-investigator of the Psychotherapy Change Project at The Family Institute, and he is developing a program of research investigating the impact of mate selection on relationship development and functioning.  He has a particular interest in understanding the unique factors that explain the disproportionately low marriage rate and high divorce rate among African American couples. In general, he seeks to understand the processes and conditions that form, sustain, and dissolve couples’ relationships.

 

His professional activities have included being appointed to the American Psychological Association’s Initial Grant Review Committee, serving on the editorial board of American Psychological Association journals, and being actively involved in several national and international organizations devoted to understanding and strengthening couples’ relationships, and to mentoring young adults’ careers. 

 

Dr. Chambers treats couples and individual adults.

 

Clinical Interests:  Couples struggling with intimacy, communication, and conflict; premarital counseling; African American couples/marriages; inter-racial/ethnic couples and marriages; transitions to parenthood and adulthood; individual adults; fathers’ & men’s’ issues; career planning

 

Location: Downtown Chicago, Evanston