About Luke
Luke Borkenhagen is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) in Minnesota with five years of professional experience. He works with people facing anxiety, stress, anger, and trauma. He also helps with relationship concerns, self-esteem problems, and coping with major life changes.
Luke sees therapy as a collaborative process. He listens closely and offers straightforward feedback. Sessions focus on practical next steps and on noticing how thoughts and body sensations affect daily life.
Background and approach
His background includes approaches that center values, relationships, and personal meaning. He uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters and commit to small behavior changes. He blends attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships still shape feelings and expectations now.
He also draws from client-centered care and Jungian perspectives to follow each person's story and inner symbols. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used when people want concrete strategies for anxiety or mood shifts. People who connect with Luke often want a mix of practical tools and deeper self-understanding.
He describes his role as a guide who offers new angles and careful listening. He invites potential clients to share their story and see whether they might work well together.
Approaches and how online sessions work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small, committed steps toward those values. It is often used for anxiety and life changes when someone wants behavior-based tools. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape expectations and patterns. That perspective can be useful for understanding relationship distress, intimacy-related issues, and family patterns.Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work. Luke will talk with each person about goals and preferences and suggest techniques that fit those aims. That collaboration means methods may shift over time as needs change.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let therapists and clients work face-to-face when schedules or distance make in-person meetings difficult. Phone sessions or audio-only calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a camera feels like a barrier. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, written reflection, and quick strategy coaching between longer sessions, making care more flexible for busy lives.
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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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