Helping Boys & Men Build Resilience, Find Peace, and Create Hope

Is Luke the Right Counselor for You?

Luke works with boys and men from age 8 through adulthood. He sees clients in person at the Freedom Counseling Services office in Middletown, Kentucky, located off Blankenbaker Parkway across from Southeast Christian Church, and he also offers online counseling.

Many of Luke’s clients come to counseling because anxiety, depression, OCD, intrusive thoughts, or emotional distress are keeping them from living the life they want to live. Anxiety may lead them to avoid certain situations. Depression may make it hard to engage in school, work, relationships, or daily responsibilities. OCD may leave them feeling trapped by unwanted thoughts and repetitive behaviors they wish they could stop.

Over time, these struggles can make life feel smaller. The client may stop doing things that matter, withdraw from relationships, or lose confidence in their ability to move forward. What they often want is not simply symptom relief. They want peace. They want steadiness. They want to understand themselves more clearly and reconnect with meaning and purpose.

For Christian clients, these questions may also include deeper concerns about God, identity, calling, and what a flourishing life is supposed to look like. Luke is comfortable helping clients think carefully about these questions without forcing spiritual conversations or using faith in a simplistic way.

Luke’s counseling style is calm, steady, relational, and collaborative. He works to create a space where clients feel accepted as they are and are not pressured to process anything before they are ready. In the first sessions, Luke focuses on clarifying expectations, building trust, hearing the client’s story, and understanding the client’s symptoms and experiences. From there, he helps clients identify goals and create a practical plan in a way that gives them agency in the process.

What Therapy With Luke Looks Like

Therapy with Luke is both thoughtful and practical. Clinically, he draws heavily from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, while also integrating ideas from Internal Family Systems and Schema Therapy. These approaches help clients understand what is happening internally, identify patterns that keep them stuck, and practice new ways of responding to distress.

Luke often uses psychoeducation to help clients better understand the mechanisms behind their anxiety, depression, OCD, intrusive thoughts, or emotional distress. When helpful, he teaches practical skills in session and may assign homework so clients can practice those skills outside the therapy room.

For anxiety and OCD, Luke can help clients build an exposure hierarchy and use principles from exposure and response prevention. This process helps clients gradually face feared situations or thoughts while reducing the compulsive behaviors that keep the cycle going.

Luke also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients relate differently to painful thoughts, emotions, and body sensations. In plain language, this means helping clients learn that distressing internal experiences do not have to control what they do. Clients may work on noticing when they are fused with thoughts, practicing defusion, building willingness, clarifying values, and taking meaningful action even when distress is present.

For depression, Luke may use behavioral activation to help clients begin re-engaging life in small, intentional ways. When life has become smaller, the work often involves taking values-based steps back toward the people, responsibilities, and pursuits that matter.

For clients who want Christian integration, Luke may also include guided imagery, meditation, scriptural reflection, theological discussion, and worldview work in ways that are thoughtful, respectful, and clinically appropriate.

Faith Integration

Luke does not use Scripture, theology, or spirituality in a shallow, patronizing, or out-of-context way. His approach is grounded in the belief that God heals and restores, and that strong clinical practice does not contradict a biblical worldview.

For Luke, faith integration is not about attaching a Bible verse to a counseling technique. It is about helping clients examine the beliefs and worldview that shape their suffering, their identity, and their understanding of God. This matters because what a person believes about God often deeply affects what they believe about themselves.

This can be especially important for clients wrestling with scrupulosity, fear of God, guilt, inadequacy, shame, or distorted beliefs about themselves. Sometimes a person’s theology can intensify their suffering. Luke helps clients sort through those beliefs with care so they can begin to see God, themselves, and their lives more truthfully.

Luke brings a thoughtful biblical and theological foundation to counseling for clients who want that included. He does not use faith in a forced or simplistic way. Instead, he helps clients explore how their beliefs about God, themselves, and the world may be shaping both their suffering and their path toward healing.

Luke’s hope is that clients experience more peace, more resilience, greater flexibility in how they relate to thoughts and emotions, and a deeper sense of meaning and purpose in life.