Luke Thompson, BACP

Luke Thompson is a United Kingdom based therapist with four years of experience who supports people facing relationship difficulties, depression, and a wide range of anxiety, from social anxiety to deeper existential concerns. He often encounters feelings of shame alongside these struggles and works with clients on low self-esteem, ADHD, bereavement and breakups, and related issues that can make everyday life feel heavy.

His work draws on attachment-informed thinking, emotion-focused ideas, cognitive behavioural techniques, and humanistic approaches such as person-centred and relational therapy. In plain terms, this means sessions focus on the client and their emotional experience, and use the therapeutic relationship - grounded in empathy, no-judgement, and honesty - as a space to explore parts of life that cause pain. He frames therapy around the belief that emotional experience and honest connection are central to making change, often summed up in his view that people need to feel their emotions in order to move through them.

Luke does not take a passive role in therapy. He aims to be a steady companion through uncertain or difficult times, bringing himself into the work to normalise common human struggles. He speaks openly about his own experiences with anxiety, depression, close bereavement and ongoing grief, and the challenges of feeling not enough and people-pleasing. Those personal experiences inform his respectful, engaged style rather than replacing a professional framework.

Outside of therapy he enjoys gaming and creative projects, has lived in three different countries, and describes himself as a proud big brother and an imperfect multitasker. He is a member of the BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - which is a professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists in the UK. Luke works with international clients but is not accepting new clients at this time.