John Loewenthal

I am a relational and integrative psychotherapeutic counsellor. Through an empathic and analytical approach, I can help you to deal with life’s difficulties, to come to new realisations, and to arrive at new ways of being and relating. I am specialised in relational counselling and have experience across different therapeutic settings (NHS Talking Therapies, Relate, Thrive Together Psychotherapy, Cassel Associates). I work with people one-to-one and as couples and families (18+).

I offer therapy sessions in SE1/online on Thursday afternoons/evenings, SE15/online on Friday mornings/afternoons and Sunday afternoons/evenings, plus some other ad hoc availabilities.

Relational therapy

Relational counselling enables hard topics to be discussed in a soft and sensitive way, with our conversations setting a standard for what can hopefully be sustained longer term. Relational therapy can be akin to joint therapy, building on the intimacy of a relationship by further sharing inner lives and biographies in the presence of one another. By doing so, people in partnership continue to learn about themselves and each other in symbiosis. Through effort, care, consideration, and insight from all parties, our work can lead to new becomings.

Working one-to-one

I also work with people one-to-one, providing a supportive and stimulating environment. I want to hear where you are coming from, and to tune into the deeper dynamics and concerns that may be underlying relational issues and emotional states you are experiencing. I attend to each person's unique experience of the world, including anxieties, frustrations, senses of loss, isolation, being misunderstood, unhappiness, or searching for something more. I have helped people facing various challenges from inner states to family conflict to social identity to life transitions and changes.

Integrative modality and anthropology

My therapeutic modality is integrative, primarily between humanistic and psychodynamic orientations. I will try to facilitate your growth through empathy and curiosity, coupled with theoretically-informed provocations to unearth unconscious dynamics at play.

Further to my counselling qualifications (Diploma in Relational Counselling, Certificate in Counselling Skills), I have been a university lecturer since 2016 and hold a BA (Oxon) (First), MA, and PhD in the field of anthropology. As the study of human existence, my ongoing anthropological research and teaching deeply inform my therapeutic practice. I am attentive to how people’s lives are shaped by family, culture, psychology, and society, and to the difficulties that people face in love, work, life, and death.

Relational therapy

In some instances, our work will focus on a particular issue that seems difficult to overcome. This could be a traumatic episode, such as infidelity, a bereavement, a grievance, or a loss of identity. It could be a persistent dynamic like discrepant sexual desires, patterns of conflict, attitudes towards parenting, or social and cultural life, including friendships and in-laws. In other instances, there may be a more general or mysterious unhappiness, such as a treasured connection fading in its spark.

Relational therapy typically works on communication, establishing constructive forms of sharing and active listening. Accordingly, I will guide you towards greater knowledge, empathy, and respect for each other, including sensitivity to each other's needs, biographies, and existential concerns. The aim is to empower all parties with greater clarity about who you are, individually and collectively, and where you are going in life.

Working one-to-one

Issues I can help with include:

Anxiety, depression, and self-esteem issues

Relationship difficulties and communication struggles

Workplace fulfilment and career aspirations

Family expectations and pressures

Pursuits of meaning, purpose, and transcendence

Existential boredom and a search for something more

Questions of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, migration, identity and belonging

Intergenerational relationships and responsibilities

Ageing, loss, and life transitions

My therapeutic practice is informed by ongoing clinical supervision across the month. I am a registered member of the BACP and I abide by their ethical framework. I draw variously on my parallel work at the Centre for Anthropology and Mental Health Research in Action and as a Departmental Tutor at the University of Oxford, where I teach the courses: ‘What makes life meaningful? Perspectives from anthropology' and ‘Therapy as anthropology: engagements with the human condition’:

 https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-john-loewenthal

Please write to me and we can arrange a free telephone consultation (up to 30 minutes). For couples or families, this will be a call with each of you. This call is an opportunity for you to share some of what you hope to explore therapeutically. We can then arrange the first therapy session at the earliest convenience. Alternatively, we can communicate via email and directly arrange an initial session.

I am a relational and integrative psychotherapeutic counsellor. Through an empathic and analytical approach, I can help you to deal with life’s difficulties, to come to new realisations, and to arrive at new ways of being and relating. I am specialised in relational counselling and have experience across different therapeutic settings (NHS Talking Therapies, Relate, Thrive Together Psychotherapy, Cassel Associates). I work with people one-to-one and as couples and families (18+).

I offer therapy sessions in SE1/online on Thursday afternoons/evenings, SE15/online on Friday mornings/afternoons and Sunday afternoons/evenings, plus some other ad hoc availabilities.

Relational therapy

Relational counselling enables hard topics to be discussed in a soft and sensitive way, with our conversations setting a standard for what can hopefully be sustained longer term. Relational therapy can be akin to joint therapy, building on the intimacy of a relationship by further sharing inner lives and biographies in the presence of one another. By doing so, people in partnership continue to learn about themselves and each other in symbiosis. Through effort, care, consideration, and insight from all parties, our work can lead to new becomings.

Working one-to-one

I also work with people one-to-one, providing a supportive and stimulating environment. I want to hear where you are coming from, and to tune into the deeper dynamics and concerns that may be underlying relational issues and emotional states you are experiencing. I attend to each person's unique experience of the world, including anxieties, frustrations, senses of loss, isolation, being misunderstood, unhappiness, or searching for something more. I have helped people facing various challenges from inner states to family conflict to social identity to life transitions and changes. 

Integrative modality and anthropology 

My therapeutic modality is integrative, primarily between humanistic and psychodynamic orientations. I will try to facilitate your growth through empathy and curiosity, coupled with theoretically-informed provocations to unearth unconscious dynamics at play.

Further to my counselling qualifications (Diploma in Relational Counselling, Certificate in Counselling Skills), I have been a university lecturer since 2016 and hold a BA (Oxon) (First), MA, and PhD in the field of anthropology. As the study of human existence, my ongoing anthropological research and teaching deeply inform my therapeutic practice. I am attentive to how people’s lives are shaped by family, culture, psychology, and society, and to the difficulties that people face in love, work, life, and death.

Relational therapy

In some instances, our work will focus on a particular issue that seems difficult to overcome. This could be a traumatic episode, such as infidelity, a bereavement, a grievance, or a loss of identity. It could be a persistent dynamic like discrepant sexual desires, patterns of conflict, attitudes towards parenting, or social and cultural life, including friendships and in-laws. In other instances, there may be a more general or mysterious unhappiness, such as a treasured connection fading in its spark.

Relational therapy typically works on communication, establishing constructive forms of sharing and active listening. Accordingly, I will guide you towards greater knowledge, empathy, and respect for each other, including sensitivity to each other's needs, biographies, and existential concerns. The aim is to empower all parties with greater clarity about who you are, individually and collectively, and where you are going in life.

Working one-to-one

Issues I can help with include:

Anxiety, depression, and self-esteem issues

Relationship difficulties and communication struggles

Workplace fulfilment and career aspirations

Family expectations and pressures

Pursuits of meaning, purpose, and transcendence

Existential boredom and a search for something more

Questions of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, migration, identity and belonging

Intergenerational relationships and responsibilities

Ageing, loss, and life transitions

My therapeutic practice is informed by ongoing clinical supervision across the month. I am a registered member of the BACP and I abide by their ethical framework. I draw variously on my parallel work at the Centre for Anthropology and Mental Health Research in Action and as a Departmental Tutor at the University of Oxford, where I teach the courses: ‘What makes life meaningful? Perspectives from anthropology' and ‘Therapy as anthropology: engagements with the human condition’: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-john-loewenthal

Please write to me and we can arrange a free telephone consultation (up to 30 minutes). For couples or families, this will be a call with each of you. This call is an opportunity for you to share some of what you hope to explore therapeutically. We can then arrange the first therapy session at the earliest convenience. Alternatively, we can communicate via email and directly arrange an initial session. 

I am a relational and integrative psychotherapeutic counsellor. Through an empathic and analytical approach, I can help you to deal with life’s difficulties, to come to new realisations, and to arrive at new ways of being and relating. I am specialised in relational counselling and have experience across different therapeutic settings (NHS Talking Therapies, Relate, Thrive Together Psychotherapy, Cassel Associates). I work with people one-to-one and as couples and families (18+).

I offer therapy sessions in SE1/online on Thursday afternoons/evenings, SE15/online on Friday mornings/afternoons and Sunday afternoons/evenings, plus some other ad hoc availabilities.

Relational therapy

Relational counselling enables hard topics to be discussed in a soft and sensitive way, with our conversations setting a standard for what can hopefully be sustained longer term. Relational therapy can be akin to joint therapy, building on the intimacy of a relationship by further sharing inner lives and biographies in the presence of one another. By doing so, people in partnership continue to learn about themselves and each other in symbiosis. Through effort, care, consideration, and insight from all parties, our work can lead to new becomings.

Working one-to-one

I also work with people one-to-one, providing a supportive and stimulating environment. I want to hear where you are coming from, and to tune into the deeper dynamics and concerns that may be underlying relational issues and emotional states you are experiencing. I attend to each person's unique experience of the world, including anxieties, frustrations, senses of loss, isolation, being misunderstood, unhappiness, or searching for something more. I have helped people facing various challenges from inner states to family conflict to social identity to life transitions and changes.

Integrative modality and anthropology

My therapeutic modality is integrative, primarily between humanistic and psychodynamic orientations. I will try to facilitate your growth through empathy and curiosity, coupled with theoretically-informed provocations to unearth unconscious dynamics at play.

Further to my counselling qualifications (Diploma in Relational Counselling, Certificate in Counselling Skills), I have been a university lecturer since 2016 and hold a BA (Oxon) (First), MA, and PhD in the field of anthropology. As the study of human existence, my ongoing anthropological research and teaching deeply inform my therapeutic practice. I am attentive to how people’s lives are shaped by family, culture, psychology, and society, and to the difficulties that people face in love, work, life, and death.

Relational therapy

In some instances, our work will focus on a particular issue that seems difficult to overcome. This could be a traumatic episode, such as infidelity, a bereavement, a grievance, or a loss of identity. It could be a persistent dynamic like discrepant sexual desires, patterns of conflict, attitudes towards parenting, or social and cultural life, including friendships and in-laws. In other instances, there may be a more general or mysterious unhappiness, such as a treasured connection fading in its spark.

Relational therapy typically works on communication, establishing constructive forms of sharing and active listening. Accordingly, I will guide you towards greater knowledge, empathy, and respect for each other, including sensitivity to each other's needs, biographies, and existential concerns. The aim is to empower all parties with greater clarity about who you are, individually and collectively, and where you are going in life.

Working one-to-one

Issues I can help with include:

Anxiety, depression, and self-esteem issues

Relationship difficulties and communication struggles

Workplace fulfilment and career aspirations

Family expectations and pressures

Pursuits of meaning, purpose, and transcendence

Existential boredom and a search for something more

Questions of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, migration, identity and belonging

Intergenerational relationships and responsibilities

Ageing, loss, and life transitions

My therapeutic practice is informed by ongoing clinical supervision across the month. I am a registered member of the BACP and I abide by their ethical framework. I draw variously on my parallel work at the Centre for Anthropology and Mental Health Research in Action and as a Departmental Tutor at the University of Oxford, where I teach the courses: ‘What makes life meaningful? Perspectives from anthropology' and ‘Therapy as anthropology: engagements with the human condition’:

 https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-john-loewenthal

Please write to me and we can arrange a free telephone consultation (up to 30 minutes). For couples or families, this will be a call with each of you. This call is an opportunity for you to share some of what you hope to explore therapeutically. We can then arrange the first therapy session at the earliest convenience. Alternatively, we can communicate via email and directly arrange an initial session.