About Luke
Luke Borkenhagen is a licensed social worker in Minnesota. He holds a LICSW and has five years of professional experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, anger, trauma, and self-esteem concerns. He aims to be a steady guide in sessions, listening closely and offering new angles to try when life feels stuck.
Luke uses a mix of practical conversation and body-centered awareness to help people notice how stress shows up in their day.
Background and approach
He draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and client-centered principles to keep work focused on values and what matters most to each person. Cognitive-behavioral ideas are used when helpful to spot patterns and try different actions. Sessions tend to be collaborative and paced to each person.
Luke helps people name feelings, notice physical reactions, and experiment with small changes outside sessions. This approach can be useful for coping with major life changes, relationship strain, burnout, or lingering effects of trauma and abuse. He also pays attention to attachment patterns and how past relationships shape current ones.
That perspective often helps when intimacy, jealousy, infidelity, or family problems are part of what brings someone to therapy. Luke is comfortable working with topics such as addiction, caregiver stress, dissociation, and issues linked to autism or intellectual disability. People meet with him by phone, video call, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Sessions are offered in English and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
How online work blends body awareness and values-based care
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how stress and emotion show up in the body. It involves noticing sensations, posture, breathing, and movement as part of healing, and can help with anxiety, trauma responses, and chronic tension.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and making small, committed actions toward them. It helps people accept difficult feelings while still moving toward a meaningful life, which can be useful for depression, anxiety, and life transitions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide whether somatic noticing, ACT, attachment-based ideas, or a blend feels most useful. Goals, preferences, and comfort with different exercises guide the plan together.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people practice body awareness and breathing with live guidance. Phone sessions suit those who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins and ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while trying different techniques and tracking what helps most.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- 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