Natalie Baker
Collaborative counselor focused on practical change
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Natalie
Natalie Baker is a Licensed Professional Counselor of Mental Health who centers therapy on the person in front of her. She uses a client-centered, humanistic stance to create a nonjudgmental space. Sessions focus on clear, practical steps and on helping people notice patterns that keep them stuck.
Natalie brings 18 years of experience across hospitals, residential programs, schools, partial care, and outpatient settings. That background shapes how she blends evidence-based tools with a warm, collaborative relationship.
Background and approach
Together with each client she sets realistic goals and chooses techniques that fit their life. Her approach includes therapies that teach skills for managing strong emotions and for changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also supports people exploring identity, relationships, grief, career decisions, parenting concerns, and life transitions.
Natalie pays attention to communication patterns and attachment issues that affect daily life. In sessions she helps people turn things they do automatically into choices they can notice and change. Work often involves learning coping tools, practicing new ways of communicating, and building greater self-compassion.
Natalie emphasizes finding practical strategies that can be used between meetings. Clients who are hearing impaired or dealing with immigration-related stress or caregiver burden are among the areas she lists. She believes everyone deserves to see their authentic self reflected back with respect and curiosity.
Natalie welcomes questions about how therapy might fit into each person’s life.
Evidence-based approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and learn small, practical steps to move in that direction despite difficult thoughts or feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving coping and interpersonal effectiveness.Natalie treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try strategies, and adjust the plan as needed so methods fit the client’s life and needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility: video calls for face-to-face work, phone sessions when video isn’t possible, and live chat or text-based messaging for quick check-ins and skill practice. These options make it easier to fit therapy around school, work, or caregiving and help people maintain momentum between sessions.
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.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point