Walter L. Lowe (PhD)

Overview

I’m a native Chicagoan who lived in Gary, Indiana for thirteen years before moving to New Hampshire with my wife, Hana. I entered the field of Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) after a 21-year career in newspaper and magazine journalism which began in 1971 at the Chicago Sun-Times. I received my Master’s Degree training in MFT at Purdue Calumet University, Hammond and my Doctoral training at Purdue University, West Lafayette. I’ve practiced Aikido (a martial art) for more than 30 years, as well as Hatha Yoga and Yoga meditation, which I taught for several years in the Chicago area. Songwriting and playing guitar, cooking and writing (fiction and essays) are among my favorite hobbies. Both my wife and I are licensed MFTs and AAMFT Clinical Members. I am also an AAMFT approved supervisor.

Teaching at Antioch

Antioch has a long history of devotion to principles of social justice, and social responsibility (as demonstrated by the school’s focus on environmental issues long before such issues began to be addressed by larger, more “conventional” Universities). Thus, I expected that it would attract the types of faculty and students with whom I would enjoy interacting.

Further, I looked forward to helping develop a PhD program in MFT at Antioch because I knew that a large number of Antioch’s MFT students are “adult learners." As one who entered the field in mid-life as an “adult learner,” I felt I would understand the challenges that many such students would face in trying to carve out a new career for themselves in this exciting, but extremely demanding profession.