Dr. Amanda Baker
Relationship and family focused therapy
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Amanda
Dr. Amanda Baker helps adults and families who are dealing with relationship strain, parenting worries, trauma, or anxiety. She writes in plain terms and focuses on practical next steps.
Her first aim is to help people feel steadier in day-to-day life so they can make clearer decisions about family and relationships. She has 10 years of clinical experience and holds an LMFT, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, registered in New York as NY LMFT 001161.
Background and approach
Her work has included relationship wounds, infidelity, parenting struggles, and sexual concerns, along with common problems like depression, stress, and low self-esteem. In sessions she uses a client-centered stance. That means she listens first, then helps people notice what matters to them and what small changes could help.
She also draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Attachment-Based Therapy depending on the situation. She accepts a wide range of family and relationship concerns including blended family issues, family of origin problems, and communication breakdowns.
She also works with people facing addiction, compassion fatigue, body image concerns, and issues connected to kink, BDSM, and alternative sex culture. Dr. Baker offers several online session formats to fit different schedules and needs.
She aims to be practical and collaborative, helping clients set clear goals and try steps that feel doable in real life. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule based on therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and reconnect with their values so they can take small, meaningful actions even when things feel difficult. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns of relating formed in close relationships. It helps people understand how those patterns show up now and practice new ways of connecting, which can be especially helpful for couples and family strains.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and suggest which methods to try first. This is a collaborative process where adjustments are made as progress and needs become clearer.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for people with busy family lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home, phone sessions remove travel time, and live chat or text messaging can fit between appointments or for follow-up support. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while managing work, parenting, and daily responsibilities.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Amanda
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point