LaToya Flowers-Roe, EdD
Assistant Clinical Professor, Online Clinical Mental Health Program (OCMHC)
Biography
Dr. Flowers-Roe is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Illinois. She is passionate about preserving family relationships. She has expertise working with high conflict couples regarding issues of infidelity, power dynamics, and parenting.
Dr. Flowers-Roe likes to both challenge and encourage OCMHC students, fully supporting them as they stretch themselves into new areas of awareness, knowledge, and identity. She strives to create a nurturing learning environment where students can be both tested and supported, where they can teach and be taught, and where their love of learning can be further ignited as they adopt new identities as professional counselors.
Dr. Flowers-Roe has published in books and peer reviewed journals on topics regarding DEI within academia, couple relationships as a means of healing individual traumas, the value of play in homeschooling, and the impact of adult playfulness on romantic relationship satisfaction.
She has presented at international, national, regional, and local conferences on family relationship dynamics, positive parenting practices, and enhancing multicultural competence within the field of counseling and academia.
Dr. Flowers-Roe is the recipient of the 2022-23 North Central Association for Counselor Education and Supervision Outstanding Diversity award. She is a previous Emerging Leader with the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision and past president of the Governor State University chapter of the Chi Sigma Iota Professional Counseling Honors Society.
Dr. Flowers-Roe enjoys working with online students on research regarding inter-personal variables that enhance romantic relationship satisfaction and stability, the science of love and play, DEI within counseling, and strength-based approaches to couple and family therapy.