About Rachael
Dr. Rachael Baker is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who helps people manage anxiety, stress, grief, and other life challenges. She aims to make the first steps toward change feel clearer and more manageable.
Her tone is encouraging and straightforward, designed for someone feeling overwhelmed and unsure where to begin. She brings 15 years of clinical experience in both independent practice and agency settings across Florida. Her background includes work with depression, ADHD, panic attacks, trauma and abuse, and mood disorders.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing relationship and parenting strains and those coping with major life changes. In sessions she listens closely and responds with practical strategies. Dr.
Baker uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques to help people notice patterns, practice new skills, and reduce distress. She also uses Motivational Interviewing to help clients find their own reasons for change and Trauma-Focused Therapy when past events continue to interfere. Her manner is inclusive and respectful of each person’s story.
She focuses on small, doable steps that move toward clearer thinking and better day-to-day coping. Clients can expect a mix of skill-building and supportive conversation tailored to their goals. Dr.
Baker works with adults across a broad range of concerns including anxiety and panic, attachment or adoption-related issues, body image and self-esteem, and complicated grief. She offers sessions in English and practices from Florida.
How specific approaches translate to online care
Dr. Baker uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT often focuses on patterns that feed anxiety and offers concrete exercises people can use between sessions.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. DBT skills are practical tools for managing intense feelings and reducing impulsive reactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will discuss goals and preferences and adapt techniques from these methods to fit what a person needs. That collaboration helps pick strategies that feel useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for fuller conversation and skill practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and brief check-ins or messaging work for quick updates or coaching between longer appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between sessions.
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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
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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