Lambers Fisher

Too often, therapists feel paralyzed by the fear that they don’t know enough about other cultures to try to counsel clients different than themselves.

Attend this workshop and reduce those fears by increasing your understanding of cultural experiences with which you are not personally or professionally familiar.

Without learning multiple languages or becoming an expert on every possible culture, you can become more culturally competent and feel more confident in your ability to counsel any client from any culture. Beyond ethnicity, you will also explore issues of age, gender, sexuality, religion, acculturation, and social justice, as well as opportunities to strengthen the therapist’s own cultural self-awareness.

Join Lambers Fisher, MS, LMFT, MDIV, for this adventure into the world of cultural competency. Take away immediately applicable and practical strategies to:

• Improve assessment
• Avoid ethical dilemmas
• Overcome fears
• Reduce unintentional cultural offense
• Build significant therapeutic rapport
• Help clients of any cultural background make meaningful change in their lives

You may just want to attend this seminar to receive 3 hours of cultural competency and 3 hours of ethics. You will leave with so much more! This highly engaging and encouraging seminar will challenge you to learn more about other cultures, accept what you do not yet know in the process, and utilize therapeutic strategies that can help you be effective along the journey toward becoming an increasingly culturally competent therapist.

Gain a reputation for being the premier therapist in your community for working with diverse clients!

Learning Objectives:

1. Implement the DSM-5® criteria and cultural formulation interview to accurately assess for cultural influences as it relates to diagnosis.
2. Analyze biases to improve clinical strategies, rapport, and engagement with a variety of clients.
3. Develop a deep understanding of the impact of varying cultural group experiences to enhance empathy in-session.
4. Devise ethical standards for a culturally competent practice related to therapeutic authority and self-disclosure.
5. Utilize clinical strategies to address unintentional cultural offenses towards clients to increase treatment effectiveness.
6. Apply skills to overcome cultural barriers such as language, religion, and different belief systems to improve session outcomes.

Lambers Fisher, MS, LMFT, MDiv, is a marriage and family therapist who has counseled individuals, couples, and families from a variety of cultural backgrounds, in private practice, non-profit organizations, as well as ministry environments. He has a strong desire to help counseling professionals in various fields feel more comfortable, competent, and confident in their ability to meet the needs of whomever they have the opportunity to serve. Lambers' training experience includes facilitating workshops, guest lecturing, as well as being an adjunct instructor at Crown College on various aspects of diversity in counseling. Lambers supervises aspiring therapists as a board-approved supervisor for the Minnesota Board of Marriage & Family Therapists as well as the Minnesota Board of Behavioral Health.

Currently, Lambers is a therapist in private practice where he effectively balances personal and professional experiences to provide unique and practical perspectives on a variety of culturally-sensitive topics. He obtained a Master of Science in Marriage & Family Therapy as well as a Master of Divinity from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Lambers Fisher has employment relationships with Christian Heart Counseling. He is an adjunct instructor at Crown College. Mr. Fisher receives a speaking honorarium, book royalties, recording royalties, and a consulting fee from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Non-financial: Lambers Fisher has no relevant non-financial relationships.