Dr. Amanda Lowe Biography

Dr. Amanda B. Lowe

Dr. Amanda B. Lowe is a licensed psychologist in private practice in Pittsburgh, PA.  She received her master’s degree and doctorate in clinical psychology from Duquesne University, a Human Science program grounded in phenomenological, psychoanalytic, and post-structural psychologies. She holds a certificate in qualitative and interpretive research and has most recently received postgraduate training in psychedelic therapy and research. She is an existential-phenomenological psychologist who is also trongly influenced by Jungian Analytical Psychology.  

Across her career, the arc of Dr. Lowe’s professional development has centered on questions of how lived experience, imagination, culture, and ecological contexts intertwine to create human identities, behaviors, relations, and systems. She is an expert in experiential processes with lifelong practice and theoretical study of meditation, Focusing, phenomenology, psychotherapy, coaching, and professional reflective practice. She seeks to help people to recognize and reclaim the value and dignity of their embodied experiences and to develop greater skill in reflecting on their lives and relating to others.

Prior to working in private practice, Dr. Lowe created several entrepreneurial start-ups and pilot projects that sought to create interventions to improve mental health outcomes for communities. She has been involved with various research projects with the University of Pittsburgh and Penn State New Kensington. Formerly, she was core faculty in the PsyD program in Counseling Psychology at Carlow University, where she was the Assistant Program Director and Director of Clinical Training. She was also core faculty in the Psy.D. program in Clinical Psychology at Point Park University, where she served as the Director of the Psychology Clinic.

In her current practice, she works with individual adults. She specializes in working with people who see themselves as “outsiders,” including people from other countries and regions, people who are multicultural, countercultural, or members of a subculture, people who have changed socioeconomic classes or deviated from family expectations, creatives, philosophers, and spiritual seekers.

Her current research interests include animist psychology, psychosomatic pain, and the cultural, political, philosophical, spiritual, and phenomenological aspects of psychedelic medicine.