Andrea Baker, LMHC

Andrea Baker is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 23 years of clinical experience. She helps people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting challenges, and shifts in life and career. Her work often focuses on practical skills to reduce symptoms and build confidence.

Andrea began her career supporting children in therapeutic foster care, teaching life skills to kids and parenting strategies to caregivers. For the past two decades she has worked in hospital settings, helping people navigate acute medical crises and the emotional toll of illness.

Her sessions focus on clear, manageable steps. She teaches coping tools for anxiety and depression, practices communication skills, and helps people make concrete plans for career and life changes. She also offers supportive counseling for the perinatal period and for postpartum depression.

Andrea uses approaches such as client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, solution-focused methods, motivational interviewing, and trauma-focused therapy to address problems. She emphasizes the client as the expert in their own story and builds on each person’s existing strengths.

People meet her for help with sleep struggles, anger, relationship and family concerns, ADHD, compassion fatigue, chronic illness, and decision points like divorce or caregiving stress. She frames therapy as a collaborative effort and supports step-by-step progress toward clearer goals.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Many of Andrea's methods fit well with remote sessions and carry over into online conversations. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's experience, helping someone feel heard and guiding the pace of work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses practical exercises to change patterns; this is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and managing mood. Trauma-focused therapy supports people to process distressing experiences at a manageable pace and develop skills to cope with triggers.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Andrea will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then recommend ways of working that match those needs. The choice of techniques and pacing is collaborative and can change as progress is made.

Specific session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins during a workday break, reduce travel time, and let people join from a quieter space with fewer interruptions. Licensed professionals can use these formats to focus on skill practice, goal setting, and processing trauma-related material while keeping sessions practical and goal-oriented.