About Kanani
Kanani Baker is a licensed social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. She focuses on practical steps clients can use to handle life changes and feel more capable day to day. She builds sessions around a warm, nonjudgmental setting where people can name their thoughts and feelings.
Conversations are paced to match each person’s comfort, with emphasis on simple skills and clear goals. That might mean practicing new ways to manage strong emotions or trying small changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
Kanani draws on several proven approaches, including client-centered work that follows what the person brings to the session. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking and replace it with more balanced ideas. Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness techniques teach emotional regulation and present-moment skills that reduce overwhelm.
Over eight years she has supported people through caregiving stress, chronic illness or pain, loneliness, communication problems, and questions about life purpose. She listens for what matters most and helps people set realistic next steps. Sessions aim to feel useful and doable rather than abstract.
Kanani is based in Michigan and offers sessions in English. She encourages straightforward conversation about what a person hopes to change and works with them to build a plan that fits their life.
How Kanani’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy means the conversation follows what matters most to the person. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps the client set goals that feel relevant and realistic. This approach helps people clarify priorities and decide which tools to try.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real-life evidence. It includes practical exercises between sessions that reduce anxiety and change patterns that worsen mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving how someone copes when stress spikes.
When starting, Kanani works collaboratively to pick approaches that fit the client's needs and preferences. She discusses options, notices what helps, and adjusts the plan together rather than imposing a single method. That shared process makes it easier to try techniques and keep what works.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins, quick problem-solving, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options give flexibility so people can fit therapy into busy lives.
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- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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