A charter member of the American Family Therapy Academy and the former Eastern Association of Sex Therapy, Dr. Ficher was involved in the training of hundreds of psychiatric residents and psychology students. In the 1980s, she helmed the family and couples therapy concentration for the doctoral psychology program in the department of mental health sciences at Hahnemann, then was lured to Widener University for much of the 1990s, where she pursued similar work, her daughter said.