About me

Professional experience

2022 – 2023 Psychological psychotherapist
Psychosomatic day clinic of the Varisano Hospital in Hofheim am Taunus
Since 2021 Self-employed in my own practice
Private Practice for Psychotherapy, Psychological Counselling & Coaching in Frankfurt a.M.
Since 2020 University lecturer
Psychological Institute, Heidelberg University & Heidelberg Institute for Psychotherapy (HIP)
2020 – 2022 Psychological psychotherapist
University Outpatient Clinic of the Psychological Institute, Heidelberg University
2020 – 2021 Study therapist for the PerPAIN research project
Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics at Heidelberg University Hospital
2020 Study therapist for the PROVIDE research project
Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics at Heidelberg University Hospital
2017 – 2021 Research associate
Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics at Heidelberg University Hospital
2017 – 2020 Psychological psychotherapist in training (PPiA)
Heidelberg Institute for Psychotherapy
2016 Psychological psychotherapist in training (PPiA)
Clinic for General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, Mitscherlich ward
2015 – 2016 Psychological psychotherapist in training (PPiA)
Acute psychiatric hospital zum Guten Hirten in Ludwigshafen am Rhein

Since 2023 in advanced training as a systemic-integrative couples therapist at the Hans-Jellouschek-Institute Freiburg-Hamburg (HJI)
Since 2023 in further training as an analytic group therapist at the Institute for Group Analysis e.V. in Heidelberg (IGA)
2022 EMDR trauma therapist
EMDR Institute Germany & Clinic for General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, Heidelberg University Hospital
2021 Dissertation (Dr. sc. hum.)
Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, Heidelberg University Hospital
Topic: Self-criticism as a mechanism of change in psychotherapy
2020 Licence to practise as a psychological psychotherapist
Specialist in psychodynamic psychotherapy, Heidelberg Institute for Psychotherapy (HIP)
2008 – 2015 Studies of psychology (M.sc.)
Heidelberg University & Columbia University in the City of New York, USA

Dinger, U., Löw, C. A., & Ehrenthal, J. C. (2021). The functional domain of self-criticism. In G. de la Parra, P. Dagnino, & A. Behn. Depression and personality dysfunction: An integrative functional domains perspective, pp. 171-192, Springer.
Löw, C. A., Schauenburg, H., & Dinger, U. (2020). Self-criticism and psychotherapy outcome: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical Psychology Review, 75, 1-19.
Barnow, S., Löw, C. A. , Arens, E., Schäfer, A., & Pruessner, L. (2019). The importance of acceptance for psychological problems in old age. Psychotherapist, 64, 272-280.
Barnow, S., Löw, C. A. , Dodek, A., & Stopsack, M. (2014). Managing emotions – emotions under control. Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics, Medical Psychology, 64(7), 284-289.