Andrew Ritcheson - Life Coach UK Associate

Andrew Ritcheson D. Phil.

London-born of American parents and educated in France and England, I've had an international upbringing and as a result have a great appreciation for cultural and individual diversity. The experiences I have had in my life in these different places have had an important and lasting impact on me, and the openness, respect and curiosity with which I view others and the world.

My academic background is equally varied. I studied for a degree in French literature at the Sorbonne, before coming to England to take my first honours degree in Psychology. I completed my first doctorate at Oxford University, where I tutored extensively and held the Brokhues graduate award in arts and humanities for my research into anxiety. I had a further three years training in clinical psychology at the Royal Holloway, University of London, and have practiced extensively in the fields of adult mental health, life-span and older adult psychology, existential practice, and health and illness.

When not working I am an avid painter, writer, cyclist and traveller.

The way I work is informed by a number of sources, and shaped greatly by Charles Bentley's Unitive™ approach. The most important source it is informed by, of course, is you. I don't pretend to have a set of answers based on privileged knowledge to which I am the sole key holder. I also do not attempt to categorise or to impose on you and your experience an artificial and inflexible framework. Instead, with emphasis on individual experience and expression, I am dedicated to working collaboratively in a tutorial group context and on a wide range of life issues. In this way you will come to 'own' the work that you undertake, and become an active participant in determining the content, direction and destination of our work's journey.

I look forward to working with you and wish you every success in finding what you seek.