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Digital Seminar

A Systemic Approach to Exploring Identity Issues

How to Effectively Navigate the Cultural Divide

Faculty:
Lambers Fisher, MS, MDiv, LMFT
Duration:
3 Hours 04 Minutes
Copyright:
22 Mar, 2026
Product Code:
NOS096736
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
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Description

Our political, gender, and racial and ethnic divides don’t just stop at the voting booth: they’re increasingly impacting our clients’ mental health, home life, work, and communities. Of course, these cultural shifts are also impacting our therapeutic relationships and treatment efficacy. Drawing from systemic, evidence-based approaches that help repair and strengthen struggling relationships, this workshop will provide you with practical and ethical strategies to not only help your clients navigate division outside the therapy room, but help you and your clients explore cultural differences that exist in your work together, deepening the therapeutic relationship in the process. Together, we’ll walk through concrete steps you can take to make your office a safe and inviting environment for clients of all cultural backgrounds and ways to reduce cultural countertransference. You’ll also learn how to:

  • Help clients navigate cultural differences and splits in their personal and professional relationships
  • Help clients explore internal identity struggles that may result in symptoms like anxiety and depression
  • Build trust with clients from backgrounds different from your own
  • Increase your cultural awareness and empathize with client behaviors driven by self-preservation instincts
     

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Faculty

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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 is the author of the award-winning book, Diversity in Clinical Practice: A Practical & Shame-Free Guide to Reducing Cultural Offenses & Repairing Cross-Cultural Relationships.

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. 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. 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 maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with Christian Heart Counseling. He is an adjunct instructor at Crown College. Lambers Fisher receives a speaking honorarium, book royalties, recording royalties, and a consulting fee from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Lambers Fisher is a member of the American Association for Marriage & Family Therapy and the Minnesota Association for Marriage & Family Therapy.


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Objectives

  1. Utilize strategies for overcoming cultural differences to create a culturally safe therapeutic environment.
  2. Apply skills for repairing therapeutic rapport when negatively impacted by unintentional cultural offenses.
  3. Describe the role of family and other systems in the development and maintenance of cultural competence.

Outline

Cultural Competencies in Mental Health

  • Broad Scope of Cultural Identity
  • Client-centered approach to cultural competence
  • Types of Bioecological Systems
  • A Systemic approach to cultural identity development
    • Ethnocentrism
    • Self-awareness & other awareness
    • Accountability
    • Advocacy
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks
  • Ethical Considerations in Cross-Cultural Interactions

Components of a Culturally Safe Therapeutic Environment

  • Proactive Strategies
  • Maintenance Strategies
  • Reparative Strategies

Assessments & Interventions

  • Cultural Genogram
  • Cultural Self-Assessment
    • The Role of the Self-of-the-therapist
    • Managing Cultural Countertransference

Target Audience

  • Counsellors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychotherapists
  • Therapists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counsellors
  • Case Managers
  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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