About Andrea
Andrea Baker is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She supports clients facing depression, grief, relationship strain, parenting stress, sleep problems, and career questions. She also works with people dealing with trauma, chronic illness, ADHD, and life transitions.
Andrea began her work with children in therapeutic foster care, teaching practical life and parenting skills. Over two decades she has worked in hospital settings, supporting people through acute medical crises and ongoing health challenges.
Background and approach
That background informs how she supports people with cancer, chronic pain, and caregiver stress. Her approach is straightforward and collaborative. She listens first, then helps clients set clear goals and small steps they can try between sessions.
She uses client-centered conversations alongside cognitive behavioral techniques to help shift unhelpful thinking and build new habits. Andrea also draws on motivational interviewing and solution-focused methods to support change and action. For trauma and abuse she uses trauma-focused therapy to help people process painful memories at a pace they can handle.
She emphasizes skill-building for coping, communication, and self-confidence. With 23 years of experience as an LMHC, Andrea focuses on practical strategies people can use right away. She aims to empower clients to make manageable changes, reduce symptoms, and reclaim daily functioning.
Her style is warm, patient, and goal-oriented to help people move forward.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy starts with the person and their priorities. It means the therapist listens closely and follows the client's lead to build goals that matter to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Motivational interviewing helps people find and strengthen their own reasons for change and can be useful when someone feels stuck.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then try approaches that fit. Plans are adjusted as progress is made so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions let people see and hear one another for more interactive work. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow quick check-ins, written reflections, and support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to get regular care without long commutes or schedule disruption.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- 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
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