Marriage Counseling with Multicultural Couples

Presenter: Lambers Fisher, MS, LMFT, Mdiv

Learning Objectives:

Learners will broaden their professional perspective on who multicultural couples are and the significance of understanding cultural identity in effective marriage counseling with multicultural couples.
Learners will identify common experiences and challenges faced by multicultural couples.
Learners will demonstrate the use of practical strategies for strengthening multicultural couple relationships and improving clinical outcomes.

CE Credit: 1 NBCC Hours; 0 CRCC Hours; 1 WA Hours; 0 APT Hours; 0 NAADAC Hours; 1 NY Hours; 0 Ethics Hours

Lambers Fisher, MS, LMFT, Mdiv

Lambers Fisher, MS, LMFT, MDiv, is a licensed marriage and family therapist, clinical supervisor, adjunct instructor, award-winning author, and national speaker on the topic of multicultural awareness and diversity.  For over 20 years, Lambers has counseled individuals, couples, and families from a variety of cultural backgrounds. Lambers utilizes his marriage and family therapist experience to bring a positive, shame-free, empowering, and relationship-focused approach to equip helping professionals in various fields to increase their cultural self-awareness, reduce the frequency of unintentional cultural offenses, repair relationships damaged by cultural offenses, and increase confidence in their ability to meet the needs of whomever they have the opportunity to serve.  Lambers’ acclaimed TEDx talk on “What to Do When You Offend Someone” has been viewed over 500,000 times. Lambers is also the author of the award-winning book, Diversity in Clinical Practice: A Practical & Shame-Free Guide to Reducing Cultural Offenses & Repairing Cross-Cultural Relationships.