About Luca
Luca Hawkins is a Maryland-based clinician who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress. He uses straightforward, practical talk and steady support to help people feel less overwhelmed. Luca presents as calm and attentive, and he aims to make sessions feel manageable for someone with a busy life.
He works with adults who want to build self-compassion, improve social confidence, and sort through identity concerns. Many clients come with mood swings, low self-esteem, or trouble with relationships and communication.
Background and approach
He also helps people dealing with grief, career shifts, parenting strain, and the distress that comes with life changes. Luca combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. That means conversations are driven by the client, while also giving concrete tools to change anxious thoughts and manage intense emotions.
Sessions often include practical exercises, thought tracking, and skill rehearsal between meetings. He draws on eight years of clinical experience and holds an MD and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor credential. That background informs a collaborative style where the person’s goals lead the pace and focus of work.
Luca emphasizes small, achievable steps that add up over time. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules. People who want to start can complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule an initial appointment according to the posted availability.
How these approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and following the client's lead. Online sessions give space for that supportive conversation while letting the client set goals and pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down anxious thoughts and teaches concrete techniques to test and change them; in online work this often includes homework like thought logs and short behavioral experiments. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for tolerating distress and regulating strong emotions, using coaching-style practice and step-by-step skill building.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, daily routines, and what styles felt helpful in the past. Based on those conversations they will agree on a plan that mixes listening with specific tools and homework that fit the person's needs and preferences.
Offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging makes therapy more flexible. Video lets people work closely through visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a lunch break, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options help match therapy to different schedules and communication styles.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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