I want to tell you something most psychologists do not put on their “About” page.
I did not arrive here in a straight line.
Post Graduate degrees across three disciplines — theology/divinity, psychology, and business management — and thirty-five years in private practice of which I lectured for 10 years and was a Dean in Higher Education. But the credentials are not the story. They are what I did with the questions Life asked and curveballs Life threw me. And the questions and answers came, as they do for most people, from living-and screwing up. None of that is a credential. It is a life-fully lived. And it is the life that qualifies me to sit across from you in the same room — not the framed certificates on my wall, and achievements.
I created the “FREEDOM FROM” and the entire Zenitude course library bcause thirty-five years of watching people get stuck — and get unstuck — 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. This map includes deep wells of experience and wisdom and a lived Life- it also includes the deep insights I gained from 1000,s of patients over 35 years.
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. I had to shrink my financial life and possessions to survive -but I never shrunk myself.
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 and relationships who are stuck- and sometimes in pain and shame. With males in addiction who covered themselves with shame and young males simply drifting through life, the ones still living in their parents basement, playing online games most of the time, the screen addicted one,s that refuse to grow up and face the harsh realities of life.
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 choices, made repeatedly, to get back up and understand rather than simply use theory. That’s what ZENITUDE means to me. Not arrival. Becoming. Transforming. Being better that yesterday. Growing.
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.
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 or at Xfit 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), being stuck in life, 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, coaching, compassion, and real-life change.
Your journey to transformation and freedom starts with the-zentherapist courses.
These are the courses I offer or will offer soon:
“3-day challenge to a porn free life” -started
“The Peter Pan Syndrome” (for males that never grow up -like in the movie “failure to Launch”)-starts end of September 2026
“What’s your Mating call?” (partner selection that ends in failure- most of the time-all the time) -starts end of November 2026
“Breaking free from generational trauma” (let it stop with you-don’t pass it on)-starts January 2027
Recovering form Infidelity and Chaeting for Couples
“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” (for males 50 + that wants Healthspan and beat the grim Reaper for a few years more)
