Luke Thompson
Therapist focusing on emotions and attachment
About Luke
Luke Thompson is a counsellor who uses attachment-based, emotion-focused and cognitive approaches to help people work through depression, anxiety and relationship difficulties. He aims to create a warm, honest space where emotions are noticed and talked about. Sessions focus on what is happening for the person now and on small steps that make daily life easier.
Luke draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centred Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Emotionally-Focused Therapy in his work.
Background and approach
He pays attention to shame, low self-esteem and the ways past losses or attachment wounds shape current feelings. This gives practical routes to try differently in relationships and in day-to-day routines. He has four years of clinical experience and holds BACP registration, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy accreditation.
That background informs a straightforward, humane style rather than technical jargon. Luke talks openly about the normal pain of grief, feeling not enough, and the mistakes people make while learning. Sessions are conversational and collaborative.
The emphasis is on noticing emotions, naming them and testing new ways of responding. People may cry, get angry, laugh or reflect as part of the process - all of which are treated as part of healing. Outside therapy he enjoys creative hobbies and has lived in several countries, which helps him relate to life changes and transitions.
He welcomes people who are curious and ready to try talking through difficult feelings.
What Luke works with
How Luke works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches in online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that fit their values. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood and feeling stuck in life. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build more supported ways of relating. This can be helpful for relationship struggles, intimacy issues and repeated feelings of abandonment.Finding the right approach is something the therapist will do together with the client. He will listen to what matters, try different ways of working and adjust as goals and needs change. That collaborative process helps identify whether ACT, attachment work or other methods suit a person best.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone session, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be a simpler check-in without video, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and travel while keeping focus on the therapeutic work.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
