About David
David Baker is a counsellor with 12 years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety and relationship difficulties. He is a BACP member and works in the United Kingdom. David presents a calm, straightforward approach for people who feel overwhelmed or stuck and are looking for practical ways to feel steadier.
He trained in person-centred practice at Warwick University and has added experience with transactional analysis and existential ideas. David aims to work alongside people rather than impose a single method.
Background and approach
He combines talking, reflection and practical tools to help reduce distress and improve everyday coping. Common concerns he helps with include anxiety, panic, depression, addiction and trauma. He also supports people dealing with grief, loss, low self-esteem and intimacy or communication problems.
He can help when life changes feel hard to manage and when old patterns keep repeating. Sessions may look like an open conversation about what matters most right now. David listens, offers observations, and suggests steps to try between sessions.
He tailors the pace to each person, whether someone needs short-term problem solving or a longer therapeutic process. David has worked in independent practice and in the voluntary sector, including with a large UK mental health charity and a bereavement counselling service. He offers online and telephone sessions and is comfortable helping people who prefer remote formats.
If someone wants to explore whether therapy might help, David supports a straightforward first discussion to clarify needs and next steps.
Approaches to online therapy and how they help
Attachment-Based Therapy views difficulties through the lens of connection and early relationships. It helps people understand how patterns of closeness or distance affect current relationships and emotional responses, which can be useful for anxiety and intimacy concerns.Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person's own experience and pace. The therapist listens without judgement and helps the person find their own solutions, which often suits people feeling overwhelmed or uncertain about next steps.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour. It offers practical exercises and experiments to reduce anxiety, manage panic and change unhelpful habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then shape a plan together. That collaborative decision making can change over time as needs change.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let the conversation feel close to an in-person session while fitting around home and work. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier if someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins, quick coping ideas or people who express themselves better in writing. These options increase flexibility and make it easier to maintain regular contact with therapists and registered or accredited professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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