About Luke
Luke Borkenhagen is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) practicing in Minnesota. He has five years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, anger, and the fallout from trauma and abuse. Luke aims to be a calm, steady guide who listens and offers practical ways to move forward.
He focuses on everyday problems like low self-esteem, relationship strain, and coping with life changes. He also supports people dealing with intimacy-related issues, compassion fatigue, and complex family problems.
How Luke works
Additional areas of focus include attachment concerns, dissociation, addiction, and challenges related to autism and intellectual disability. Luke draws from several approaches to fit each person’s needs. He uses acceptance and commitment techniques to help clarify values and take meaningful action.
Cognitive behavioral ideas are used to spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns. He also incorporates attachment-based and client-centered perspectives to deepen understanding of relationships and inner experience. Sessions are collaborative and straightforward.
Luke listens first, helps you name what matters, and works with you to build small, doable steps. He can also address topics like kink and alternative sexual culture, caregiver stress, cancer-related concerns, and grief from separation or divorce. People who prefer practical conversation, gentle challenge, and a mix of psychological tools may find his style helpful.
Luke welcomes questions about how sessions work and what to expect in a first meeting.
Luke lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Luke works with
The areas below are the ones Luke selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Minnesota |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most and take small actions toward those values. It’s often used for anxiety, stress, and feeling stuck. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and emotional responses, which can help with intimacy-related concerns and family problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and improve coping.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Luke treats the choice of method as a collaborative decision based on a person’s goals and preferences. He will listen to what matters to you, suggest one or more ways to proceed, and adjust the plan as needed.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth or movement is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can support brief check-ins or weekly work between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue care when in-person meetings are difficult.
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A practical next step
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