https://www.goodpeoplecounseling.com/home daily 1.0 2025-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4a1ecdf328ca61e2b288b7/1582310322080-FKN8VXZTXRZNYQK1DXJ6/GPCluke1.jpg Good People Counseling - Hello and welcome! My name is Luke Wenker and I have been a practicing mental health counselor since 2011. I work with adolescents, adults, and families. My primary approach to therapy is offering a compassionate, non-judgmental and strength based dynamic within our relationship. I meet my clients where they are at. I employ an integrative mix of person-centered, cognitive behavioral, and motivational interviewing counseling techniques. I help my clients with goal-setting, effective communication, self-care, self-exploration, and accountability. Creating positive and healthy relationships with clients is a powerful experience that I am forever grateful for. https://www.goodpeoplecounseling.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-01-15 https://www.goodpeoplecounseling.com/about daily 0.75 2022-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4a1ecdf328ca61e2b288b7/1582329116062-LSK0JYJDC3OK6KI5IY3P/GPCluke2.jpeg About - About Luke I decided to become a counselor after noticing that all of my other choices of work were in the helping professions. I worked for residence life departments at Oregon State University and Southern Oregon university, and have over a decade of experience working at both day and residential youth summer camp programs. I have worked in the mental health field since 2009, when I began working with high school students in rural Oregon as well as Rogue Community College counseling center in Medford, OR for my graduate school internship. I became clinically licensed while working at a large counseling agency in the Portland area in 2014, then spent two years working as a substance use and abuse counselor in South Dakota. In 2016 I moved to the Oregon Coast and began a private practice, which I transitioned to Portland in 2019. In addition to private practice, I spent two seasons as the lead field therapist for a wilderness therapy program based on the Olympic Peninsula, where I worked with at-risk youth in the outdoors. Using the wilderness as a therapeutic tool, I have seen first hand how our lives can be transformed and healed through nature. In the rest of my life I enjoy spending time in nature, being with community, photography, hiking, and camping. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4a1ecdf328ca61e2b288b7/1582330158621-P37SRS3WPAWRKSEA1B1E/GPCluke3.jpg About - Qualifications & Experience M.S., Mental Health Counseling | Southern Oregon University, 2011 Licensed Professional Counselor #C3522 | Oregon Board of Licensed Counselors and Therapists Private Practice Mental Health Counselor, September 2016-Present Good People Counseling LLC, Portland, OR Lead Field Therapist, 2018-2020 Rites of Passage NW Wilderness Therapy Program, Olympic Peninsula, WA Drug and Alcohol Prevention and Education Counselor, November 2014-August 2016 Lifeways Substance Use Prevention Program, Rapid City, SD Adolescent & Adult Mental Health Counselor, August 2011-September 2014 Western Psychological Services, Gresham, OR https://www.goodpeoplecounseling.com/insurance-fees daily 0.75 2024-03-25 https://www.goodpeoplecounseling.com/mens-hiking-group daily 0.75 2026-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4a1ecdf328ca61e2b288b7/1753728556287-BV2Z2TCUDN0XP5I7I4EI/unsplash-image-ee9Sgkrnijg.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4a1ecdf328ca61e2b288b7/1753728517857-2SLEVXOE2WRXU99XZP29/unsplash-image-S40X6Al5ZSw.jpg