About Jo
Jo Baker is a Licensed Certified Social Worker with 12 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress and supports those facing trauma, grief, mood challenges, and parenting pressures. She uses a warm, nonjudgmental style and emphasizes a trusting relationship.
Sessions are conversational and practical. Jo listens first, then suggests small steps people can try between appointments. Her approach draws on several methods to match each person's needs.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques help people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns. Mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy tools teach ways to live with difficult feelings while pursuing valued goals. Jo also draws from Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation and from Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas when relationship patterns are part of the concern.
She adapts strategies for issues like attention differences, obsessive or compulsive behaviors, phobias, and post-traumatic stress. People who reach out can expect collaboration on clear, achievable goals. Jo explains options, offers practice exercises, and checks progress each week.
Her work aims to reduce daily distress and help people return to routines they value. Jo practices in Mississippi and conducts sessions in English. She uses a subscription model for sessions that can be canceled at any time and offers several online formats to fit different schedules.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then taking small actions that match personal values. It can help with anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy teaches concrete steps to spot unhelpful thoughts and shift behaviors, which can reduce panic, phobias, and mood-related patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy supplies skills for managing intense emotions and improving stress tolerance, useful for impulsivity and anger.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Jo collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That means trying techniques together, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan over time so it stays useful.
Online options make scheduling easier for many people. Video calls are useful when visual cues and a fuller conversation are needed. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or screens feel tiring. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, practice prompts, or when someone needs ongoing written support. These formats let people fit therapy into work breaks, school schedules, or busy home lives while still using the same skills and exercises a therapist would offer in person.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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