About Luke
Luke Borkenhagen is a licensed independent clinical social worker with five years of professional experience in Minnesota. He meets people where they are and listens first to understand what is most pressing. Luke emphasizes partnership and practical steps over jargon.
He helps people manage stress, anxiety, anger, and low self-esteem. He also supports those coping with life changes, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Additional focus areas include attachment issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, and concerns related to kink and alternative sexual cultures. Luke blends several approaches to match each person's needs. He uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and cognitive-behavioral ideas for skills and behavior change.
He also draws on attachment-based ideas and Jungian themes to look at patterns and deeper meaning. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Luke aims to offer new perspectives and practical tools while encouraging gentle challenges to comfort zones.
He describes his role as a guide who helps people try small experiments and notice what changes. People can expect straightforward talk, grounding practices, and attention to how relationships and inner parts shape daily life. Luke is based in Minnesota and sees clients in English.
He welcomes initial conversations to decide whether his way of working fits someone’s needs.
Approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that matter. It helps people who feel stuck by teaching ways to make room for difficult thoughts while still moving toward meaningful goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers practical exercises for reducing anxiety, improving mood, and changing patterns that keep problems going.
Attachment-based work pays attention to how early and current relationship patterns shape present-day connections and reactions. This approach can help when relationship trust, intimacy, or repeated conflicts are a major concern.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their situation, goals, and comfort level. That may mean combining skill-building exercises with deeper exploration of patterns over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video lets people use visual cues for emotional work, phone calls are helpful when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can serve for brief check-ins or ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep consistent momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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