About me
Innovating where therapy meets philosophy - and life gets real
Hi, I'm Luke and I'm an existential therapist, committed to helping people make meaningful change in life. I firmly believe that by exploring your relationships and emotions, you will better understand yourself and the things bringing you to therapy. Therapy can be challenging and it takes resilience to explore experiences like regret, anxiety, depression, trauma, loss, bereavement, and it takes courage to move through and beyond these. My commitment is to be with you as we explore this together.
What to expect in Your First Session
The first session is likely to be each of us asking questions and listening. I want to get a feel for what you want from therapy, to better understand your current circumstances and how you are feeling about being in therapy. I hope you will get a sense of who I am and how I work and ask any questions you might have about how therapy works. This is really to get to know each other and for you to assess if you feel comfortable enough with me and how I work to commit your time and resources to working together.
How Counselling Can Help
Self-understanding is a precursor to any change. If you don't know what you want to change from, then you are probably not going to know what steps to take. So I help you to understand yourself and your way of making sense of yourself and the world, so that you can make the changes you wish to. How do you carry your wounds and fears? What relational impacts sit within you today? What is it like to be your age, and how does this shape you? These are examples of questions that inform how you are today and that inform the changes you want to make.
Therapeutic Relationship is Key
We will draw on existential insights together, which will inform our work. However, while theory is important, therapy is at core two people sitting together, making sense of your challenges, and that relationship is key. Developing trust and learning form how we are together and the impacts we have on each other can be incredibly useful to gain insight into your emotional and psychological processes.
If what you have read here resonates with you, I encourage you to get in touch and see if you feel that resonance in talking.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have a post-graduate diploma in integrative psychotherapy and a diploma in cognitive behavioural hypnotherapy. I continue to run my private practice and have extensive experience working with addiction and various degrees of mental health issues from my time as therapist in a mental health and addiction in-patient treatment centre in London.
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£65.00 - £120.00
Additional information
Fees discussed on enquiry
