John Loewenthal PhD
John is a trainee integrative counsellor offering reduced-cost couples therapy until January 2025
Dr. John Loewenthal offers an integrative approach to couples therapy informed by humanistic, psychodynamic, and cognitive-behavioural perspectives. His therapeutic style is empathic and analytical, offering compassion and insight into people’s personal and relational problems. John helps people in partnership to address their connections and differences, which includes attention to each person’s biography and sense of the future. In sessions, John ensures that all parties feel heard and strives to cultivate mutual respect and healthy communication. By having meaningful conversations, including constructive arguments, couples therapy can empower all parties with greater clarity about who they are, individually and collectively, and where they are going in life. As your therapist, John will facilitate learning about each other’s worlds and how to avoid unhelpful patterns of behaviour.
John is a university lecturer, teaching and researching in the fields of anthropology, education, and mental health. As a trainee counsellor with NHS Talking Therapies, he supports individuals through various psychological and relational challenges. As part of his Diploma in Relational Counselling, John now provides reduced-cost couples therapy in Peckham and London Bridge. Sessions are provided through Cassel Associates, who describe couples counselling as follows:
Couples and relationship counselling offers a space for people in a partnership to share difficulties they are experiencing, whether these are persistent or have suddenly arisen. By enabling the expression of discontent, from all parties, couples counselling helps people to address the inevitable challenges of combining lives.
The process of relational counselling entails an honest exploration of circumstances and emotions. Such emotions may be multiple and contradictory, from distress and disappointment to shame and despair to hopes and longings to love and affection for one another. Relationships are complex and involve other parties from in-laws and children to friends, colleagues, and community.
Frequently, in periods of life, people in couples come to feel lost, trapped, bewildered or angry at the loss of their former lives and the changes in their relationships. Trust can be broken, bodies and sexual behaviours change, boredom can arise as can family crisis and breakdown.
While people often experience their problems in ways that are unique to them, there are patterns to such problems. Couples and relationship counselling offers the ears, attention, and insights of a therapist who can help you to communicate and explore causes and solutions to relational difficulties.
For further information, and to make a self-referral to Cassel Associates, please see the following page: https://www.casselassociates.org/to-make-a-referral