Del Loewenthal

Career

Loewenthal was Director of the Research Centre for Therapeutic Education until October 2018 when he became Emeritus Professor and convener of the Doctoral Programmes in Psychotherapy and Counselling in the Department of Psychology at Roehampton University.

Loewenthal has been on the UKCP register since 1996 (Analytic Section, Philadelphia Association) and is also a Chartered Counselling Psychologist (BPS) and Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) Registered.

Alongside his career as a psychotherapist and educator, Loewenthal has had an interest in photography and completed a BA degree in Photography and Multimedia at the University of Westminster and subsequently an MA in Documentary Photography and Photojournalism at the University of Arts/London College of Communication. Loewenthal has nurtured his interest in photography into seminal work on phototherapy and therapeutic photography with publications including The Handbook of Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography for the Professional and Activist Client (2023, Routledge), The Therapeutic Use of Photographs in the United Kingdom criminal Justice System in the European Journal for Psychotherapy and Counselling (2015); Talking Pictures Therapy as Brief Therapy in a School Setting, Journal of Creativity in Mental Health (2013); and has edited Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography in a Digital Age (2013, Routledge).