Portland Therapy Center
Luke Colbourn

Luke Colbourn (he/him/his)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LPC

I help people navigate their stresses and anxieties in new ways.

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

5036949348

2705 East Burnside St

Suite 206

Portland, OR 97212

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At a Glance

Me

Rate: $150

Provides free initial consultation

Provides telehealth services

Practicing Since: 2020

Languages: English

Services

  • Individual

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket
  • Medicaid
  • OHP CareOregon/HealthShare
  • OHP Open Card

My Ideal Client

Does it feel like there's just too much on your plate? Has it felt that way for too long? When you experience chronic stress sometimes it feels like overwhelming, buzzing anxiety. Other times it can be a heavy weight where everything seems pointless. If either of those resonates for you, it's time for a change. Therapy can help, and I look forward to helping you find the insight and tools to live at ease.

My Approach to Helping

I offer therapy that draws from the wisdom of the buddhist tradition and evidence based practices (such as ACT & CBT). It is both gentle and direct. Together we build a relationship of trust and respect as we explore your feelings and circumstances. The insights we uncover together guide us to the interventions that can help you. Throughout therapy you will be cultivating self-awareness and developing a tailored set of skills for handling life's stresses with greater ease.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I believe part of my role as a therapist is to help my clients uncover their inherent wisdom. Another part is to help alleviate suffering here and now. In both cases, I bring active and deep listening to build an honest and engaged relationship. Insight and awareness practices from the buddhist tradition are an important part of my worldview as a therapist: I am influenced by two decades of meditation practice, participation in retreats, and active study with lineage holders. These experiences have taught me that we are all co-creators of our shared reality, each of us being influenced and influencing others. I value being able to see from my clients' perspective to deeply understand their experience. I also value my years of teaching and outdoor leadership experience, which help me remain pragmatic and solution focused when needed.

Techniques I Use

Specialties

  • Contemplative External link

    Contemplative psychotherapy is based on integrating the wisdom of the buddhist tradition with modern psychology. We emphasize the present moment experience and each client's inherent mental and emotional well-being, and help clients recognize this quality in themselves. As a client your ability to move your awareness in a flexible and skillful way will grow, as will your ability to see your own wisdom.

  • Cognitive Behavioral (CBT) External link

    CBT is a potent tool for working with depression, anxiety and trauma. Its focus on the relationship between thoughts, feelings and actions can offer personal insights. Clients build awareness of their 'automatic thoughts' and use this to uncover 'core beliefs'. In these ways it can pair well with mindfulness practices. CBT also offers effective tools for changing behavior

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) External link

    ACT is a subtype of CBT which focuses more on noticing our thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and asking ourselves if they are 'workable'. Do my actions move me toward my values, and if not what can I learn to do differently to help them line up more closely in the future? The 'acceptance' in ACT is not about passively tolerating problems in the world, it's about our own internal experience: noticing it, acknowledging it, and being with it.

Issues I Treat

Specialties

  • Personal Growth External link

    Personal growth starts with understanding where we are, here and now. Sustainable personal growth involves cultivating a friendly, even compassionate relationship with ourselves.

  • Anxiety External link

    Anxiety is an expression of a nervous system that expects something bad to happen. For our ancestors, this might have come up briefly when confronted by a predator, and then resolve when they escaped (or didn't). Today, we live with lots of sources of abstract threat (what do my peers think of me? am I doing well enough at work/school?) and more immediate threat (is it safe to go outside my home?). Without tools to help the nervous system calm back down, all these stressors add up quick.

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