She is the author of Relational Sandplay Therapy (2005) and Sandplay and The Clinical Relationship (2013). Dr. Cunningham has written many articles for the Journal of Sandplay Therapy on the topic of the therapeutic relationship in sandplay, and has presented at national and international sandplay conferences. She has taught sandplay as well as contemporary relational theories for almost twenty years. She teaches in the Sonoma State University Depth Psychology Graduate Program and at The California Institute of Integral Studies.