Dennis Relojo-Howell

Dennis Relojo-Howell is a Filipino (person of colour) mental health blogger and columnist for Free Malaysia Today. Relojo-Howell is the founder of the psychology publication Psychreg and is an advocate of the psychological value of blogging. He is a PhD researcher at the University of Edinburgh. He previously presented Psych Chat at Men's Radio Station.
Yahoo News, International Business Times, Vuelio, and other online publications named him as the 'world's first blog psychologist'.
Relojo-Howell was born in Makato, Aklan, and grew up in a slum in Malabon in the Philippines In an article published by the BBC News, he shared that 'My family did not even have reliable electricity, running water or a cooker.' His father, Rodolfo Relojo, was a security guard. and his mother, Lorna Relojo, worked at a garment factory. Before moving to the UK, he lived in five countries: Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and Germany. 
Relojo-Howell was a suicidal adolescent while he was living in the slums in the Philippines.
Relojo-Howell went to Higher Ground Baptist Academy in Malabon, Philippines for his elementary and secondary education. In 1999, he attended New Era University for his bachelor's degree and then did a master's degree at Polytechnic University of the Philippines. He later on did a second master's degree at the University of Hertfordshire, under the supervision of Nicholas Troop. He is currently doing his PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Edinburgh.
Relojo-Howell taught at Manila Central University and Centro Escolar University, both in the Philippines. He launched Psychreg in 2014 while he was a postgraduate student at the University of Hertfordshire. In 2015, he worked for the University of Warwick as a social media correspondent. From 2016 to 2017, he taught at South Essex College. By November 2018, he joined Men's Radio Station in London to present Psych Chat. He also writes a weekly column for Free Malaysia Today. He sits on the editorial board of a number of academic journals such as Psychological Thought which is published by PsychOpen.
His blog articles have been published by the American Psychological Association. He is a graduate member of the British Psychological Society, and is the postgraduate representative of the Male Psychology Section.
His blog, Psychreg, is recognised as one of the top psychology blogs and was voted as a Highly Commended Blog at the UK Blog Awards in 2017 and 2018. In 2020, Relojo-Howell was named as 'Blogger of the Year' at the UK Blog Awards. He is also the founder of the International Society on Psychology, Counselling and Education and the editor-in-chief of Psychreg Journal of Psychology. Relojo-Howell is a mental health advocate and a psychology YouTuber who hosts the channel The DRH Show. 
Relojo-Howell is the host of DRH Show on YouTube where he has interviewed Gad Saad, Deborah H. Gruenfeld, George K. Simon. 
* Let's Talk About Behaviour: Essays on Psychology, Mental Health, and Well-being (London: PublishNation, 2020)
* Incorporating classroom blogs in teaching. In J.E. Pelet (Ed.), Handbook of research on user experience in web 2.0 technologies and its impact on universities and businesses, pp. 220–230). (Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2020)
Category:Filipino columnists
Category:Mental health in the Philippines
Category:Filipino people by occupation