About Ricqesh Parmar
Meet Ricqesh
Ricqesh is an Inner Child Therapist and Ceremonial Space Holder offering his clients a route through life's challenges and darkness in order to meet their soul and bring its true essence out into the world.
Ricqesh supports individuals on their personal healing journeys. He also works with corporate organisations to cultivate greater wellbeing, authentic leadership, and meaningful human connection in the workplace. Rooted in nature and Indigenous cosmologies, his work offers a variety of modalities to facilitate healing and transformation, meeting each client where they are on their journey. The container built by Ricqesh is a safe, confidential space, in which ancestral medicines and healing practices are held with great reverence.
Deeply embodied and integrated, this approach to inner work goes further than conventional therapy - it enables clients to fully step into the person they were always meant to be.
Qualifications
Integrated Inner Child Therapist, 2026
We all carry traumas from our childhood, which can impact our adult lives in various ways. During Inner Child Therapy, we typically consider issues that are happening in our adult life. These can vary from anxiety, work stress, relationship challenges, addictions etc.
Mesa Carrier, Q’ero Lineage
A mesa carrier (often called mesayoq in Quechua) is a shamanic practitioner in Andean and Peruvian traditions. They are caretakers of a mesa, which is a portable altar or medicine bundle containing sacred stones, crystals, and artifacts used for healing, ceremony, and spiritual connection with nature.
Hapé Indigenous Tobacco Medicine Initiation, 2025
The sacred medicine of Tobacco - which when in a snuff form from the Amazon jungle is known as Hape (Rapeh).
This is a highly intelligent medicine which is administered via a pipe called a Tepe. Tobacco works on several different levels.
My Story
Life has a way of calling us toward who we're truly meant to become. Sometimes that call is quiet. Sometimes it shakes us to our core.
For me, the journey to this work wasn't a straight path: born in New Zealand with Indian roots, I grew up in London, and first started out my career as a Chartered Surveyor in the real estate industry. Being successful professionally, I still felt a greater calling, one that kept drawing me to explore the deeper dimensions of life.
The big shift came when I met my wife, Chandvi Shah, in 2017. Through our relationship, I reopened this part of myself that had always been there - stepping into therapy and spirituality as a way of life. And that is when the real change began.
Completing the Masculine Embodiment training with “The Soul of Men”, I was brought to move beyond the patterns of being the "nice guy" who sought approval and avoided discomfort, becoming a man with healthy boundaries, greater self-awareness, and a deeper connection to my body. I began to finally let go of the addictions and coping mechanisms I had used to numb emotional pain for years. From this place, I entered into a deep Soul purpose journey - which shook me to my core. It stripped away old identities, revealing a deeper truth about who I am and why I'm here. The greatest gift has been learning to trust the wisdom of my soul and having the courage to follow its guidance.
Today, living with my small family in Nairobi, Kenya, I have a real thirst for life - and take joy in facing life’s challenges with humour and determination. I know with confidence that my purpose is to walk alongside others as they peel back the layers of conditioning, fear, and self-limitation to uncover the gold that has always existed within them. This is my true calling.
I stand by nature and indigenous wisdom as the answer to today’s challenges that many of us face, finding pleasure in guiding others through these sacred medicines, and helping them find greater authenticity, purpose, and freedom in their lives.
With love,
Ricqesh Parmar
