Luke Thompson, BACP

BACP. 4 years' experience. Luke Thompson works with people dealing with relationship difficulties, depression and many forms of anxiety, including social anxiety and deeper existential worry. He also focuses on low self-esteem, bereavement and breakups, and related concerns such as shame and people-pleasing.

Luke describes his practice in straightforward terms. He uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centred Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to guide conversations. Sessions centre on emotions and how they show up in habits, behaviour and relationships. He aims to be an engaged companion rather than a detached observer.

In sessions he works through feeling and reacting - sadness, anger, shame and confusion are all spoken about directly. He brings honest personal reflection into the room to normalise common struggles such as anxiety, depression and grief. That approach is intended to help people make sense of painful patterns and experiment with different ways of relating to themselves and others.

Luke notes lived experience with anxiety, depression and bereavement, and he draws on that in his counselling. He values connection and the therapist-client relationship as part of the work. Clients can expect a conversational style that also uses structured ideas from CBT, ACT and attachment-informed thinking.

Sessions aim to address practical patterns like communication problems, codependency, control issues and commitment worries. He also supports people coping with major life changes, caregiver stress, trauma and intimacy-related issues. The focus is on understanding feelings and trying new ways of responding.

How Luke uses therapy approaches online