About Amanda
Dr. Amanda Baker helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, relationship trouble, or life changes. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist - LMFT - practicing in New York with ten years of experience.
Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at practical steps people can use right away. She focuses on relationship and trauma concerns alongside anxiety, depression, parenting strain, and sexual or intimacy questions. Sessions often look at how attachment and past hurts shape current patterns.
Background and approach
She also works with people navigating addiction, identity issues, or difficult family dynamics. Her approach is client-centered. That means she listens first, then helps you name goals and try approaches that fit your life.
She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and dialectical behavior therapy among others to build coping skills and emotional clarity. Sessions combine conversation with concrete exercises. You might practice new communication habits, try small behavioral experiments, or use mindfulness and values-based work to reduce avoidance.
The aim is to help people act in ways that match their goals even when emotions are intense. Dr. Baker welcomes questions about therapy and how it might fit into a busy life.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make it easier to stay connected to care.
Approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, clarify what matters to them, and take small actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, avoidance, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early connection patterns and how they affect adult relationships, helping people understand and change recurring dynamics. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathetic listening and creating a supportive space so people can name goals and move toward them.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to figure out which methods fit your needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean trying one approach for a few sessions and adjusting as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow real-time conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep consistent momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- 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
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