Transformative Couples therapy®
In-Person TRAINING:
A 2-Day Workshop with a BIPOC Lens
April 11-12, 2026
Columbus, Ohio
A BIPOC-CENTERED APPROACH TO HEALING TRAUMA
Committed to culturally-attuned care, a team of skillful presenters and TCT Experiential Assistants will demonstrate the Transformative Couples Therapy® model through a BIPOC-centered lens. Clinicians will walk away with practical skills for applying attachment-based, somatically-oriented, and neuroscience-informed treatment to BIPOC and other couples. All are welcome!
Join us for a powerful two-day immersive experience where you’ll witness the Transformative Couples Therapy® model in real time!
Two LIVE demonstrations with a couple
A LIVE session working toward a powerful repair of racialized trauma
Clinical video of mother-daughter repair
Clinical video demonstrating treatment of dorsal-vagal dissociation
Moment-to-moment audience discussion cued up by live and video-recorded sessions of TCT with BIPOC couples
12 CE hours
Training materials
With plenty of time to socialize, including a Saturday evening Meet & Greet
Discounted Hotel Rate
Featuring
Amber Crosby, LPCC-S
Co-Facilitator
Amber is a compassionate mental health clinician who specializes in working with marriages, couples, and families and brings years of clinical experience to this professional training. Her work with couples is inspired by the love she witnessed in her parents and has fueled her desire to support two people in rediscovering safety, connection, and understanding with each other—skills she will be teaching clinicians in this immersive workshop.
Dr. Sherry Barbour DBH-MFT-S
Co-Facilitator
Sherry brings over 10 years of experience helping couples heal, reconnect, and thrive. She is deeply passionate about culturally attuned therapy, believing that honoring and affirming BIPOC couples’ identities and lived experiences is essential for authentic, lasting relational change. Her heart work is walking alongside families of color as they rediscover connection, deepen communication, and experience one another in meaningful, transformative ways.
David Mars, Ph.D.
David is the Founder & Director of Transformative Couples Therapy® Institute and has trained therapists internationally since 2008 in the TCT method. Dr. Mars has focused on cross-cultutral couples in TCT with the intention to bring the best of both cultures into the lived-life of the family. The secure functioning of the parents in therapy then bring benefits to the children to grow up healthy and strong.
Jazmin Moral, LCSW-C
Jazmin Moral is a licensed clinical social worker. She has 25 years of clinical experience including in non-profit mental health agencies. She has been an Experiential Assistant for TCT since 2018. Jazmin emigrated from Peru. In her practice she also provides immigration evaluations for asylum seekers who have experienced trauma and persecution in their countries of origin.
Dr. Pamela Lamto
Pamela is certified in TCT, and has worked for seven years as a TCT Experiential Assistant. Pamela is a clinical psychologist who emigrated from Mauritius and France. She provides individual and couples therapy to a mostly marginalized and immigrant community. She has been deeply involved with the TCT institute since 2018 and is part of the TCT Research clinician team.
Below is a three-minute excerpt from a recent TCT workshop in Charlottesville, VA:
“I felt inspired, alive and welcomed. David makes room for playfulness so that I could expand and open up.”
“David’s masterful teaching approach combines just enough theory to satisfy your ‘left brain’ and plenty of experiential exercises to anchor the model in your ‘right brain.’ ”