Adam Luke LMFT# 118505

Therapy is undeniably one of the greatest passions of my life. The work I do as a therapist is only solidified by the fact that I have seen how powerful it is when we start speaking power to our own goals, ambitions, and values. In therapy I conceptualize my work with clients as being a fellow traveler with them on this journey to self fulfillment. As a client, you are always in control of where your final destination in our work together may be, but as your therapist it is my task to identifying the peaks, valleys and multiple paths we can go in order to reach the goals we have identified together. In who I am as a therapist I am always seeking the opportunities. What anxiety, depression and dissatisfaction does as influences in our lives is build intellectual rigidity. The "nevers" come out. It's never going to get better. I am never going to be happy. I am never going to have healthy relationships. I am never going to be loved. I am never going to be enough. What the perspective of opportunity does is challenge these emotional and cognitive rigidities. Instead of mooring our future to the pain of our pasts, we create space for differentiation. For something anew. Just because I've had previous relational failures do not automatically mean that I am not doomed to be chronically unhappy in all of my future relationships. I have always said, "It's difficult to drive a car if all we are looking at is the rearview mirror." As we find ourselves hyper-focused on the trauma of past experiences we continue to run headlong into the same challenges and obstacles in front of us. Finally, as a therapist, I fundamentally believe in the idea that we are NOT the sum total of the worst things we have done in life. Just because we have had failures in life does not make us failures in life. So with intent we will move into a space of championing our past victories, increasing the awareness of our intrinsic value and looking to prioritize our passions and joy in life. It's in this process that, as your therapist, I am driven by my own ethos which can be summed up by this quote, "When writing your life story make sure you are the only one holding the pen." -Harley Davidson So I have to ask, are you ready to write that story?