speaker – author – counselor
Roberta Fish is an award-winning author, sought after speaker, and Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW).
As a Professor of Religion at AdventHealth University (formerly Florida Hospital College of Health Sciences) for fourteen years, she created, researched, and taught an undergraduate class called Women of the Bible. Teaching this class inspired her current book project, Men Called them Crazy, Jesus Called them Daughter: How Jesus Loved and Empowered the Gospel Women which will be published soon.
As an LCSW, she is currently the owner and clinician of Front Porch Counseling, a private practice. Roberta has spent over 30 years providing a space for healing and growing.
In 2016, she authored a group bible study book and accompanying leader’s manual entitled The Forgiveness Formula: It’s Not as Easy as 1+1. The contracted book was published by Advent Source, a ministry resource company
She co-created and co-leads Hope for Hurting Hearts Retreat, a weekend retreat for women survivors of sexual abuse as children. This ministry inspired her, in 2013, to publish the book Ministering Hope to the Hurting Heart: A Guide for Christians (Spanish version in 2015). The book overviews the healing process from all types of abuse, using the metaphor of a wound. It prepares Christians to support survivors of abuse as they recover.
Roberta would be happy to appear on your show or podcast and provide an experience that is both meaningful and fun. To inquire about Roberta’s availability for your next engagement, please complete the form.
Email: [email protected] PH: 423-316-1923
As a speaker at various events nationally and internationally, Roberta has presented seminars, retreats, sermons, and talks on topics such as abuse, emotional and spiritual healing, creativity, biblical women, forgiveness, spiritual practices, boundaries, stress, divorce recovery, and grief and loss/death and dying. She created and taught a ten-hour training for church members on how to minister to abuse survivors. She has also served as a college campus chaplain and church pastor.
Educationally, Roberta earned an AD in Nursing (RN) and a BA in Applied Behavioral Sciences. She graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Jane Addams College of Social Work, with an MSW and has completed a majority of her MDiv from Northern Baptist Theological Seminary.
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