Andrea Baker, LMHC

Andrea Baker is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in Florida with more than two decades of hands-on experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, and life transitions. She also supports those coping with trauma, parenting challenges, sleep difficulties, ADHD, and career questions.

Andrea began her career working with children in therapeutic foster care, teaching life skills and parenting strategies. Over the last 20 years she has worked in hospital settings, supporting people through acute medical crises and chronic health journeys. That experience shaped her approach to working with medical and caregiving stress.

Her sessions focus on clear, practical steps. She uses methods that help clients identify goals, build coping tools, and try new behaviors between visits. Conversations center on the client’s priorities and strengths, and she helps turn insights into doable plans.

Andrea often supports new mothers adjusting to life after childbirth and people experiencing postpartum depression. She also helps people process grief, strengthen self-confidence, and improve communication. Career goal-setting and action planning are offered in a straightforward, task-oriented way.

Her style is respectful and collaborative. She listens, reflects what matters, and helps clients pick small, realistic changes to test. Andrea views people as the experts in their own lives and aims to empower them to move toward a more manageable, satisfying life.

How Andrea’s Methods Work Online

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the client’s own goals and strengths. In practice this means the therapist listens closely, reflects what the client says, and helps the client decide next steps that feel doable. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses simple exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and to build new coping habits that reduce anxiety and depression.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Andrea will talk with each person about what feels most useful and will adapt methods to their goals and pace. She collaborates on a plan and checks in to adjust strategies as needed.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know which formats are available. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, reduce travel time, and allow for check-ins from work or home. Some formats are better for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited, while others suit longer, more in-depth conversations. Discuss practical preferences and scheduling needs when you match and plan sessions.