Luke has been travelling in and out of Southeast Asia since 2015 – spending extended time in Malaysia, the Philippines, and Bali. He knows the region the way someone who has repeatedly shown up there knows it, not the way someone reads about it.
He knows what it feels like to invest in people and watch them leave. To be far from home when something goes wrong. To carry something difficult in a place where there’s no obvious support and nobody nearby who really understands what this life actually involves.
What brought Kota Counselling to this work
The same things kept coming up across the region. Relationships that turned out to be something other than what they appeared. The particular loneliness of the expat scene. People going through serious things — accidents, trauma, the collapse of something they’d built — without a clear place to turn.
That kind of support, from someone with genuine familiarity with this life, is hard to find. Kota Counselling exists to provide it.
The work itself
Luke works with individuals who are dealing with things like betrayal and romance scam recovery, cultural adjustment, isolation, anxiety, low mood and grief, trauma following accidents or critical incidents, and parental separation. He works from what the individual in front of him actually needs.
Sessions are online and one-to-one.
