About Andrea
Andrea Baker is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with more than two decades of clinical work. She helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and parenting concerns. Her approach is practical and direct, focused on small steps that make daily life easier for overwhelmed parents and adults.
Andrea began her career supporting children in therapeutic foster care, teaching life skills to kids and parents. She later spent many years working in hospital settings, helping people facing acute medical crises navigate their emotions and care decisions.
Background and approach
That mix of community and medical experience shapes how she works now. In sessions she emphasizes clear tools for coping. She teaches breathing and grounding for anxiety, problem-solving skills for work and career stress, and communication techniques for strained relationships.
She also works with people processing trauma, grief, and major life transitions, helping them find steady routines and plan manageable next steps. Andrea often supports new mothers during the perinatal period who feel overwhelmed or are experiencing postpartum depression. She draws on motivational interviewing to help set achievable goals and on solution-focused methods to build momentum fast.
Clients can expect a respectful, collaborative tone and straightforward homework between sessions. With 23 years of experience as an LMHC - Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Andrea brings practical knowledge and calm presence to each appointment. She speaks English and provides therapy to people located in Florida who are pursuing support for mood, stress, parenting, health-related challenges, and life change.
How Andrea’s approaches work online
Andrea uses Client-Centered Therapy to listen and reflect what matters most to each person, helping them name priorities and feel heard. This approach supports people facing grief, parenting stress, or life changes by focusing on their goals and strengths.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT teaches practical exercises for anxiety, sleep problems, low mood, and unhelpful thinking patterns that people can practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Andrea will discuss goals and try methods collaboratively, adjusting plans as needs and preferences become clearer. The client and therapist decide together which techniques fit best.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let the therapist and client work face-to-face when a deeper conversation is needed. Phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging allow for brief updates, chat-based check-ins, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and can help people keep therapy consistent amid busy family and work lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- 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