Luke is a registered psychologist who graduated with a Bachelor of Psychology (Hons) in 2007. He has over 10 years experience working with children, adolescents and their families. Luke has a focus in developmental disorders. He believes in drawing upon the strengths and positives of each individual. Luke has a background in connecting with schools in Brisbane to facilitate intervention.

Luke’s goal is to empower families and individuals to understand key psychological principles including anxiety and avoidance. He aims to help families and schools understand the cause of issues and proactively manage their intervention across the lifespan.

Luke is trained in School Wide Positive Behaviour Support practices, Triple P: Stepping Stones and Team Teach strategies. He focuses on understanding behaviour issues to address avoidance and other barriers to build goals and resilience. He assists to explicitly teach expectations and strategies at the child’s level and works to celebrate successful and meaningful change with each individual.

Luke has had success working with children, teenagers and adults to provide social skills training, anxiety and anger management, grief counselling, goal setting and behaviour change. Luke has spoken publicly with schools and community groups to assist in educating adults about the challenges children with developmental disorders can face and how to best support them.