I want to tell you something most psychologists do not put on their “About” page.

I did not arrive here in a straight line.

Eight degrees across three disciplines — theology, psychology, and business — and thirty-five years in private practice of which I lectured for 10 years. But the credentials are not the story. They are what I did with the questions Life asked of me. And the questions came, as they do for most people, from living. None of that is a credential. It is a life-lived. And it is the life that qualifies me to sit across from you — not the framed certificates on my wall, though there are plenty of those. 

I created the “FREEDOM FROM” and the entire Zenitude course library bcause thirty-five years of watching people get stuck — and get free — gave me a framework I am obligated to share. Not a set of techniques borrowed from a textbook. A map that includes the terrain I have lived and personally crossed.

I have been divorced. I have stood in the wreckage of something I helped build and had to look at my part in it honestly. I have known the particular loneliness of a man who helps others rebuild their lives while quietly navigating the rubble of his own. I have scaled the peaks of things I worked hard to reach, and I have walked through the lowest valleys of disappointment and failure — not as metaphors, but as dark places I actually lived in for longer than I would have chosen. And I have resurrected and rebuilt myself -repeatedly.

That is what brought me to psychology. Not the theory first. The life experience and empathy first. The theory came later, to explain what life had already taught me.

I work with men and women who are stuck- and sometimes in pain and shame. With women who carry more than they should have to carry alone. With couples who love each other and cannot find each other, with couples who are speaking different languages in the same house. With anyone who has ever felt that the chasm between who they are and who they know they could be is one they do not know how to cross….. With people at every stage of the human journey who are done with repeating the past and ready to build something different.

The Zen Therapist is not the person I was born 65 years ago. It is the person I became — through the work, through the valleys, through the peaks, through the choice, made repeatedly, to get back up and understand rather than simply survive. That’s what ZENITUDE means to me. Not arrival. Becoming. Transforming.

I am a father. I am a grandfather. I am now a happily married husband. I have loved, lost, and learned — the hard way, the only way — that the most important work a person can do is the work of understanding themselves honestly. Not performing a version of themselves. Understanding themselves authentically.

I’m Dr. (Prof.) Adolf Lowies — a psychology board registered and certified psychologist with 35+ years of experience helping people overcome addiction, navigate thresholds and ordeals, persist on personal journeys, rebuild relationships, make sense of Life, coping with challenges and reclaim their lives.

My own life followed the path of the Hero’s Journey. I’ve faced my own battles, survived ordeals, made mistakes, and emerged with deep compassion for humans, wisdom, and purpose. That’s why I created a couple of 3- day challenges — and all the other courses -not as a distant expert, but as a guide who’s walked the path of transformation.

I’ve spent decades in private practice and as a university lecturer training future psychologists. Today, I lead Gradworx Graduate Institute as CEO, where we empower thousands through education, and run Humanworx, a nonprofit organization.

I also train. Seriously. Consistently. At an age when most people are winding down, I am still in the gym before the world wakes up and set professional and career goals for the next 15 years— because I have found that the discipline of the body and the discipline of the mind are the same conversation, and I am not done with either.

My courses are not just information — it’s a transformational journey. Whether you’re struggling with porn addiction, self-sabotage, getting your Mating call wrong (every time), struggle with relationships or feeling stuck in imposter syndrome or a cycle of perpetual low self-esteem - I’m here to help you find your way out — with tools and techniques grounded in psychology, compassion, and real-life change.

I haven’t only studied psychology- I lived it and still love it and I am not a distant professor handing down theory from an ivory tower. I have intimate knowledge of walking my own path through great darkness and huge challenges, made and own my mistakes, and I emerged with something real. ‘Hard won wisdom” and the voice that says "I know this from the inside."

The one thing I am sure of in this highly complex and sometimes confusing world is this:

“No-one is coming to save or rescue you- you must save and rescue yourself “

Your journey to transformation and freedom starts with the-zentherapist courses.

“The best project you will ever work on is -you”

These are the courses I offer or will offer soon:

• “3-day challenge to a porn free life” -starts end of May 2026

• “The Peter Pan Syndrome” (for males that never grow up -like in the movie “failure to Launch)-starts end of July 2026

• “What’s your Mating call?” (partner selection that ends in failure- most of the time-all the time) -starts end of September 2026

• “Breaking free from generational trauma” (let it stop with you-don’t pass it on)-starts end of November 2026

• “3- day challenge to a self-sabotage free life”

• “3- day challenge to an imposter syndrome free life” (no! -you deserve it - yes you can do it… and yes you are good enough ;-)

• “Atomic habits for relationships” (super powers and super skills for your relationship)

• “Soul-mating” (yes, it,s possible to be /have a Soulmate - it,s all about “becoming”)

• “Callouses of the Soul” (my really deep course for when Life goes belly up, test us and throw us curve balls- clue: it,s a survival guide for disappointments, setbacks, trauma and coping with life’s and other humans bulls%$t and building resilience)

• “Don’t let the old man in” (written by me - a 65 year old guy that can out -Xfit you, out- exercise you, out-work you -but not-out party you)