About
Andrew Christensen received his BA degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He then worked as a social worker in Los Angeles and as a college psychology teacher at Grand View College in Des Moines, Iowa. Subsequently, he went to graduate school at the University of Oregon where he completed his masters and doctorate degrees in clinical psychology. He completed his clinical internship at Rutgers Medical School (The College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey).
After his training, he was hired by the UCLA Department of Psychology and has spent his entire career there. Currently he is Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology, specializing in research on couple conflict and couple therapy. He has published well over a hundred and fifty articles and books, primarily on couple conflict and couple therapy. He is co-author of the influential scholarly work, Close Relationships (Freeman, 1983, reprinted in 2002). For therapists, he authored Acceptance and Change in Couple Therapy: A Therapist's Guide for Transforming Relationships (1998, Norton) with Neil S. Jacobson, which he recently been revised with Brian Doss and is now titled Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (2020, Norton). He also completed a self-help book for couples, Reconcilable Differences (2000, Guilford; second edition 2014) with Jacobson and Doss. His therapy approach and research have been cited in the New York Times, Newsweek, Time Magazine, U.S. News and World Report, USA Today, and other magazines and newspapers. He has given workshops on his approach to therapists throughout North America and Europe, in South America, and in Asia.
He is licensed as a psychologist in California (Psy5387) and has a part-time practice of clinical psychology devoted almost exclusively to couples and relationship problems.
