About me
© Ruth Ehrmann
Dr. Sandor Richter, Psychotherapist, specialised in family systems therapy
Why did I choose family systems therapy for my vocation?
‘To go home may be impossible, but it is often a driving necessity, or at least a compelling dream. ... Home is a concept, not a place, it is a state of mind where self-definition starts; it is origins – the mix of time and place and smell and weather wherein one first realizes one is an original. ... Home ... remains in the mind as a place where reunion, if it were ever to occur, would happen. ... It is about restoration of the right relations among things – and going home is where that restoration occurs, because that is where it matters most.’
Cited from Monica McGoldrick’s book: You Can Go Home Again. Reconnecting with Your Family
Again and again, when I read this short text, it touches me deeply. If I were to give a brief answer to the question why I chose the family systems therapy for my vocation, I would reply that I know only few more sublime emotions than the one I feel if I can lend a helping hand to men and women, adults and children, siblings and couples, intact or broken families, who all would like to ‘go home’ but who, on their own, cannot find the way leading there.
About me
Born in Budapest, school and university studies in Hungary
Researcher in social sciences in Budapest
1990: emigration to Austria, researcher in social sciences in Vienna
Psychotherapy training in Austria
Married, two adult sons, living in Vienna and Budapest
Professional qualifications
Family systems therapy (ÖAS, Vienna and Hungarian Family Therapy Association, Budapest)
Psychotherapy, preparatory course (ÖTZ – NLP & NLPt, Vienna)
System constellations for mediation/alternative dispute resolution (Lernwerkstatt Blickwechsel, Vienna)
Mediation/alternative dispute resolution (ARGE Lösungsorientiertes Konfliktmanagement, Vienna)
Master’s and Doctoral degree (Economics, Corvinus University, Budapest)
Professional experience
Psychotherapist, specialized in family systems therapy, in independent practice in Austria
Internships in special-care home Maimonides Zentrum, Vienna; ESRA Psychosocial Center, Vienna; Institute for Couple and Family Therapy, Wiener Sozialdienste; Ambulante Behandlungszentrum Spielsuchthilfe (for gambling addicted persons)
Teaching at the University of West Hungary, course: ‘Conflict resolution in a multicultural context’
Member of the board of trustees at Partners Hungary, an NGO for mediation/alternative conflict management in Budapest
Mediator in independent practice, Vienna and Budapest
Researcher at The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies
Languages
English
German
Hungarian