About Rachael
Dr. Rachael Baker greets visitors with practical support and steady focus. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or the ups and downs of mood disorders.
Parents who are juggling parenting challenges or adoption and foster care questions will find straightforward strategies and clear steps to try. She also helps people facing trauma, ADHD-related struggles, relationship or communication problems, and issues around identity and self-esteem.
Background and approach
Dr. Baker is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, abbreviated LMHC, practicing in Florida. She holds a Master of Science in Mental Health Counseling and a PhD in Counseling Studies.
Her work draws on 15 years of clinical experience in both independent practice and agency settings. In sessions she listens closely and asks practical questions. She uses approaches that teach new skills, shift unhelpful thinking, and address trauma responses.
Therapy is presented as a collaborative process where goals are clear and progress is tracked. Clients can expect a mix of learning coping skills, practicing new ways to manage emotions, and setting small doable goals between sessions. Dr.
Baker pays attention to family background, adoption or foster care histories, attachment concerns, and how those things shape current patterns. The aim is to help people make steady, realistic changes. Dr.
Baker blends evidence-based techniques with an attentive, respectful style so clients can build day-to-day tools for handling life’s challenges.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Dr. Baker commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Trauma-Focused Therapy to address symptoms and build coping skills. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, panic, and mood symptoms. Trauma-Focused Therapy helps people process traumatic memories and learn ways to manage strong reactions after abuse or other traumatic events.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation and Motivational Interviewing techniques to support change when motivation feels stuck. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist and client review goals, try methods, and adjust the plan together so the approach fits the person’s needs and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a shorter check-in option, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and access care from different locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- 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