With a heart for compassion, empathy and presence, Luke has a capacity and natural expertise for holding space in a way that generates safety and trust. As we work together, new and generative possibilities will emerge.
Let your wisdom meet ours. Humbly offering counselling and psychotherapy; facilitation and creative collaboration, both in-person and online.
Welcome from Luke
You are so very welcome here!
This I believe – that you and I were made for joy, creativity, love, connection and freedom.
Luke values and is inspired by a contemplative worldview, working in ways that facilitates the presence and practice of compassion, dignity and liberation. He is a deeply contemplative soul with a love for creativity – most especially music and the embodied joy of singing.
He has worked within and across the education, health and social services sectors, taking on projects and initiatives for meaning making with refreshing honesty, courage and perspective. As is evident in his pursuit of cross-disciplinary studies in education, ecology, wellbeing and spirituality, he deeply values learning, truth telling, and creativity and the search for wholeness. Possessing a natural groundedness that resides in and respects what is real, Luke brings a wealth of life experience and qualifications in education, research, psychotherapy and lifestyle medicine (yoga and meditation).
Seasoned by the joys and challenges of being a father and partner, Luke has worked within the education, social services and health care sector, where he has worked with organisations such as Catholic Earthcare Australia, Cabrini Health, State Library Victoria and Edmund Rice Education Australia. Amongst all of this, it is the call of the sacred that is most central.
Endless possibilities rediscovered …
You are so very welcome here!
This I believe – that you and I were made for joy, creativity, love, connection and freedom.
Whatever it is that brings you here – one thing i know is that you are not flawed!
You with your gifts and grudges, wins and wounds; hopes and hurts. All of this makes you a human being. Beyond the surface of your life and the world you live in, beyond the stories, struggles and strains, there is a depth of infinite goodness and joy that is yours – yours to rest in and yours to offer. What we can co-create together, is a reminder and re-connection to this deeper truth.
As a therapist, educator, artist and facilitator, I work with individuals and communities to re-discover the endless possibilities of life and to re-connect to the healing tide that is always flowing and always available.
Find out more information and details about the services on offer.
OUR SERVICES
Beliefs & Values
“…become the source that makes the river flow, and then the sea beyond.”
David Whyte, Coleman’s Bed
There’s a thread you follow. It goes among
things that change. But it doesn’t change.
People wonder about what you are pursuing.
You have to explain about the thread.
But it is hard for others to see.
While you hold it you can’t get lost.
Tragedies happen; people get hurt
or die; and you suffer and get old.
Nothing you do can stop time’s unfolding.
You don’t ever let go of the thread.
William Stafford, The Way it Is
The Spiritual & the Sacred
Present within all of life is an infinite energy that is unshakably generative and good. It is open to us and awaits our response which is best done in an act of surrender to its flow.
Creativity & Imagination
The capacity to create new things makes us human and represents the never-ending possibility of new horizons. Through the gift of creativity and imagination, we can release ourselves from shabby spaces that keep us small.
Community & Connection
We were made for each other and become more when we risk and choose ways to connect. Creating community helps to create places and lives that are healthier, happier and fulfilled
Wholeness
Our lives and the world we live and participate in is all one. We can not be separated from the essence of life – which is relationship.
OUR SERVICES – COUNSELLING, COMMUNITY BUILDING & CREATIVITY
CALL – LUKE EDWARDS +61 427381947
qualifications
- Graduate Diploma Counselling and Psychotherapy – Cairnmillar Institute
- Advanced Diploma Lifestyle Medicine, Yoga and Meditation, BIYOME (Biomedical Institute of Yoga and Meditation)
- Graduate Diploma Psychology – Deakin University
- Graduate Diploma Research Methodologies – University of Divinity
- Master of Religious Education – Australian Catholic University
- Bachelor of Education (English/History) – University of Newcastle
training
ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training)
Focusing Oriented Therapy, Part 2 – (Biliana Dearly)
Certificate in Somatic Embodiment and Regulation Strategies (Linda Thai)
Storywork – with Padraig O’Tuama
Shaping Self – Shaping World, (David Whyte)
