Andrea Baker
Calm, practical support for parents and adults
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Andrea
Andrea Baker is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with more than two decades of experience. She focuses on common concerns parents bring up - stress, anxiety, depression, sleep problems, parenting struggles, and life transitions. Her work also covers relationship and family matters, trauma and abuse, grief, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Her style is straightforward and practical. She listens closely and helps people set small, doable goals. Sessions often include teaching coping skills, building communication habits, and creating plans for career or life changes.
Background and approach
Andrea began by working with children in therapeutic foster care, teaching life skills to kids and parenting strategies to caregivers. Later she spent many years in hospital settings supporting people through medical crises and serious health changes. That background informs how she helps clients manage stress linked to illness, caregiving, or major life events.
She uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Client-centered work emphasizes the client’s own knowledge and goals.
Solution-focused and motivational techniques are used to set clear next steps. Andrea believes people already have strengths to build on. She aims to make therapy a collaborative, hopeful process that breaks problems into manageable steps.
Practical tools and steady support are central to her approach.
How Andrea’s Methods Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and strengths. The therapist listens without judgment and helps the client direct the work. This approach is helpful for building confidence and deciding what matters most in life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. Sessions often include identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavior experiments. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and parenting stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Andrea collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their needs and goals. That might mean trying CBT tools for a few sessions, then shifting to more client-centered or solution-focused steps depending on progress.
Online work is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. These formats make it easier to keep regular contact, practice skills between sessions, and get support when life becomes busy. The flexibility helps parents and adults stay consistent while working toward clear, practical changes.
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.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point